I made these cupcakes for a registered partnership celebration. They wanted vanilla and berry-flavoured cupcakes, which is a really nice and tasty combo! And to top it off different coloured harts. I chose 6 different colours so there were 2 of each heart in one box of 12 cupcakes.

I started by making the fondant hearts, the reason I made them first is so they could harden and would stand upright in the cupcakes. For this I coloured small amounts of fondant in the colours; purple, blue, green, yellow, red and left some white. I rolled each colour out to about half a cm. And then cut out some hearts with a heart-shaped fondant/cookie cutter.

Then I baked the vanilla cupcakes. While they were cooling down I made the berry jam, I used the recipe from CupcakeJemma which is really yummy! She calls it goo tho instead of jam XD This also needed to cool down so I started on the Swiss meringue buttercream. When everything was at room temperature it was time to decorate. With an apple corer I cored out a bit of cake in the middle of the cupcake and filled it with the berry jam. I did this with a piping bag but a small spoon would work as well. Then I mixed some of the berry jam into the buttercream until I liked the taste of it. Then I put that buttercream in a piping bag fitted with a 1M star tip. And I piped rosettes on top of the cupcakes, this is a piping technique where you start from the centre and swirl out instead of out-in. Then to top the cupcakes off I put one of the coloured harts in every cupcake.