Looking for an easy and inexpensive way to impress your special someone this Valentine’s Day? Try this simple and delectable recipe for two dozen “Sweetheart Cupcakes”:

Ingredients:

♥ 1 (18.25 ounce) package of white cake mix

♥ 1 ¼ cups of water

♥ 1/3 cup of vegetable oil

♥ 3 egg whites

♥ 8 drops of red food coloring

♥ 2 drops of raspberry candy oil.

Directions:

1. Preheat an oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a standard muffin tin with paper cupcake liners.
2. Beat the cake mix, water, vegetable oil and egg whites together on low speed for 30 seconds, then on medium for 2 minutes or until smooth. Fill cupcake liners 1/3 full with white batter and set aside.
3. Stir 4 drops of red food coloring into the remaining bowl of batter to make the batter pink and stir in the raspberry oil. Pour 1/3 of pink batter into a resealable plastic bag and set it aside.
4. Mix more food coloring into the remaining bowl of pink batter until it is an orange-red color and pour the batter into a resealable plastic bag. Cut a corner off the bag, stick the open tip into the center of each cup of white batter and squeeze in about 2 tablespoons of red batter.
5. Cut the corner off the bag with the pink batter, stick the open tip into the center of the red batter and squeeze about 1 tablespoon pink batter into each cup.
6. Bake the layered cupcakes in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool completely before frosting.