If you have an emoji lover in the house like we do, make them these perfect and adorable Heart Eyes Emoji Cupcakes! They’d make a wonderful treat for your child for school, school parties, birthdays, Valentine’s Day and more!
Heart Eyes Emoji Cupcakes
YOU GUYS!!! I’m legit sad the kids are going back to school! Sure, working uninterrupted is nice, but I miss those adorable baby bodies and I love hanging out with my kiddos and swimming! While they’re not huge fans of waking up in the morning, they are fans of seeing their friends, having 3 recesses (yes, really), and all the school-like fun they get to have when they’re gone for 6+ hours a day. To celebrate, we made these absofreakinglutely adoooorable Heart Eyes Emoji Cupcakes! Incorporating our hearty love of emojis, these cute emoji cupcakes helped me cheer me up a little bit!
Easy Emoji Cupcakes
We’re such huge emoji fans in this household (if you didn’t already know this, haha)! The heart eyes emoji is our favorite emoji after all! We’ve made all kinds of emoji baked goods here – Heart Eyes Emoji Cookies, Poop Emoji Cupcakes with Nutella and Tie Dye Poop Emoji Cupcakes. We’ve got even more emoji recipe fun on deck, too! These were a fun gender neutral dessert to bring to school to share with the new kids and teachers to say “Happy Back to School” to everyone!
How to Decorate Heart Eyes Emoji Cupcakes
The best thing about this easy emoji cupcakes recipe is that it’s not complex at ALL to get perfect hearts and smiles on these Heart Eyes Emoji Cupcakes! Using a few simple tips and tricks, along with handy tools, your yellow fondant circle shapes come out perfectly, your smiles come out uniformly, and the hearts piece together to make them adorable and easy to recreate again and again! And if you’re baking in bulk for a birthday party, even better!
Heart Eyes Emoji Cupcakes for Kids
Kids and adults alike can happily nosh on these delectable emoji cupcakes recipe! Because we’re using ready-made fondant, making these cute emoji cupcakes is a snap! The easier the better, you know? Easy dessert recipes like this one make it fool-proof to allow the kids to get involved in decorating with you!
Simple Emoji Cupcakes Recipe
It doesn’t have to be difficult to turn out amazing, you know? I don’t want to make over complicated desserts, I want to make easy recipes you that not only we enjoy, but ones I know you will enjoy as well. Fun desserts inspired by pop culture like this one. Easy emoji cupcakes, yes!
Favorite Heart Eyes Emoji Cupcakes
With Halloween coming up along with the rest of the holiday season, these are the perfect celebratory cupcakes to serve to just about anyone. Who wouldn’t you want to give sweet emoji cupcakes to as a gesture of love, friendship, and kindness?
How to Make Heart Eyes Emoji Cupcakes
To make these adorable Heart Eyes Emoji Cupcakes, you will need the following ingredients:
- Your favorite vanilla cupcakes, baked and completely cooled down
- Softened butter
- Confectioners’ sugar
- Milk
- Yellow fondant
- Red fondant
- Black fondant
You will also need the following tools:
- Electric mixer
- Offset spatula
- Small paint brush and a small bowl of water
- Circle cookie cutter, about 2 inches in diameter
- Large Wilton tip (or, a small circle cookie cutter about 1 inch in diameter)
- Paring knife
In a small bowl, use an electric mixer to beat together butter, confectioners’ sugar and milk on slow speed.
Gradually increase the speed to high. Once the ingredients are well-combined and form semi-stiff peaks, the buttercream is ready.
Frost each cupcake using an offset spatula.
Roll out the yellow fondant until it’s about a quarter of an inch thick.
Use the two-inch cookie cutter to cut out 12 fondant circles.
Press each circle on one cupcake.
To prepare one face: Roll out 2 spheres from the red fondant, about 1/3 of an inch in size. Divide one sphere in two and form them into small ovals.
Press the bottom both ovals together and shape and form until it looks like a heart. Repeat with the other sphere.
Lightly use a food-safe paintbrush to brush water on the back of each heart and place as on the yellow surface as the “eyes.”
Roll out black fondant so that it’s about ¼ of an inch thick. Use the bottom end of the large Wilton tip to cut out 6 circles. Use a paring knife to cut each circle in half – this will act as the face’s smile.
Brush water on the back of each black fondant smile and secure on the yellow fondant. Repeat for each cupcake. Serve and enjoy!
What do you think of these delightful Heart Eyes emoji cupcakes? Are they something your kids would love for you to make?
Heart Eyes Emoji Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 dozen vanilla cupcakes baked and completely cooled down
- ½ stick butter softened
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1-2 tbsp milk
- 6-7 oz. yellow fondant
- 2-3 oz. red fondant
- 2-3 oz. black fondant
Instructions
- In a small bowl, beat together butter, confectioners’ sugar and milk on slow speed.
- Gradually increase the speed to high.
- Once the ingredients are well-combined and form semi-stiff peaks, the buttercream is ready.
- Frost each cupcake using an offset spatula.
- Roll out the yellow fondant until it’s about a quarter of an inch thick.
- Use the two-inch cookie cutter to cut out 12 fondant circles.
- Press each circle on one cupcake.
To prepare one face:
- Roll out 2 spheres from the red fondant, about 1/3 of an inch in size.
- Divide one sphere in two and form them into small ovals.
- Press the bottom both ovals together and shape and form until it looks like a heart.
- Repeat with the other sphere.
- Lightly brush water on the back of each heart and place as on the yellow surface as the “eyes.”
- Roll out black fondant so that it’s about ¼ of an inch thick.
- Use the bottom end of the large Wilton tip to cut out 6 circles.
- Use a paring knife to cut each circle in half – this will act as the face’s smile.
- Brush water on the back of each black fondant smile and secure on the yellow fondant.
- Repeat for each cupcake. Serve and enjoy!
