be-my-valentine cupcakes

ingredients: 12 standard Rich Chocolate Cupcakes (see Recipe Center) 1/2 cup instant chocolate pudding or whipped cream 12 candy hearts with messages 3 cups Chocolate Buttercream Frosting (see Recipe Center) 1 4 1/4 ounce tube red Decorating Icing fitted with #16 star tip

Ingredients (contd.): 72 heart-shaped red and pink candies

Directions: 1.Cut off top (dome) of each cupcake. Scoop out 1 scant tablespoon of cake from center of each bottom. Fill each with about 1/2 tablespoon pudding. Place a candy heart in center and cover with cupcake top.

2.Frost cupcakes. Using icing, pipe a heart on each cupcake. Press red ad pink candies into frosting around cupcake edge. Makes 12 valentines.