valentine's day How to deliver the key to your heart valentine's day cupcakes with gold leaf - a how-to tutorial by Sweetopia

The site Sweetopia has an extensive tutorial posted about how to make these key to your heart cupcakes using gold leaf! There are tweezers (!!) and paintbrushes involved. I love how much effort went into these - it shows. They are beautiful and would make a gorgeous valentine's day cupcake gift. Do check it out. You can also find Sweetopia on Facebook and @sweetopia on Twitter.

valentine's day A Collection of valentine's day Cupcakes

With valentine's day just around the corner, I thought I'd put together a collection of super cute cupcakes to get your creative juices flowing! Enjoy!

valentine's day

1. Royal Icing hearts by Sweetopia.
2. Valentine's LOVE cupcakes by Sweetopia.
3. Strawberry Cupcake w/ Vanilla Buttercream & Milk Chocolate Squiggle by nakedcupcakes.
4. Strawberry Cupcakes w/ swirled vanilla buttercream by nakedcupcakes.
5. Piped icing designs for valentine's day by Marie's Creative Cakes.
6. Vanilla cupcake with chocolate ganache by Love, Peace and Cupcakes.
7. valentine's day Cupcakes by weennee.
8. Marshmallow and vanilla cupcake by Cooke's Cakes.
9. White chocolate strawberry cupcake by JavaCupcake.
10. Andes chocolate mint by JavaCupcake.
11. Pink Velvet by JavaCupcake.