This is a sponsored post. All opinions are mine. How do you feel about Valentine’s Day? Are you one of those people who you has cartoon hearts floating above their heads?! Or, are you like my single for life sister, for whom, it’s another day. For my husband and I, we prefer to stay at home and do something fun with the kids. Every year, I make my Super Easy Red Velvet Cheesecake Cupcakes. Now that is love!
For the first few years after my husband and I were together, we always went out for Valentine’s Day. After we had kids, we stayed in and celebrated. As the kids have gotten older, we have included them in the celebrations. I love hanging out with my family, so any time we are together, is a special time. I enjoy baking something sweet and delicious for my family. When I make my Super Easy Red Velvet Cheesecake Cupcakes, we are a happy bunch.
This family favorite recipe is an easy one to prepare. Because I use a box cake mix, you save time than if you make then from scratch. I enjoy the balance of the sweet cake mix and the tart cheesecake pudding. It is a magical combination! We enjoy adding the white chocolate chips in the Red Velvet Cheesecake Cupcakes . If you leave them out, it is still quite tasty!
This year, I added something special to my Super Easy Red Velvet Cheesecake Cupcakes. I decided to make cute cupcake flags with my new Brother Easy Portable Label Maker. They add a sweet sentimental touch, don’t you think?
You would not believe how easy this Brother Easy Portable Label Maker is to use! I popped a White on Berry Pink Standard Laminated Tape into the unit, added my batteries and I was in business! The label maker sells for $34.99, but it is currently selling for $19.99 on Amazon! You can purchase the laminated tape cartridges on Amazon for $8.40 each!
It is so easy to operate, I did not need the instructions! Everything you need to know is on the Brother Easy Portable Label Maker. Start with the “Font” button on your far left. You have three fonts to choose from. Make your choice and hit “accept.” Next, you choose the size of your font, then the style, etc. If you want to frame your label, there are a ton of cute choices. My favorite is the floral vine!
If you are creating a label to organize your pantry, you would skip the cable button. This will print a double of your text with a line down the middle. This is where you fold your tape. This is to keep our electronics cords and cables tidy. Or to make cute cupcake flags! Adorable, right? If you are looking for an easy to use, affordable and lightweight label maker, the Brother Easy Portable Label Maker is for you!
Ingredients
- 1 Red Velvet Cake Mix
- 1 Box cheesecake pudding, divided
- 1/4 Cup milk
- 1 Package of white chocolate chips (optional)
- 2.5 Cups of powdered sugar
- 1/3 cup butter, at room temperature
- 1 tbsp. vanilla extract.
Instructions
- Prepare cake mix according to directions. Add one half package cheesecake pudding and milk. Mix well. Stir in your chips. Line or spray your muffin tins and fill 2/3 full. Bake for 22-24 minutes. Allow to cool completely before frosting.
- To prepare your frosting. In your stand mixer, using the paddle attachment, and cream your butter for 1 minute. Add 1 cup of the powdered sugar and remaining pudding. Cream for 1 minute. Add your vanilla and remaining powdered sugar. Mix well, for about 4-5 minutes. Scoop into piping bag and frost your cupcakes. Add sprinkles and your Valentine's Day toppers!

What is your favorite Valentine’s Day treat/dessert?
One USA reader will win a Easy Portable Label Maker and Tape Cartridges ARV $55
I want to make these and then eat them ALL! OMG, they sound so yummers.
These cupcakes look amazing!! What a great treat to make for Valentine’s day, I know my family would love them!
Those look amazing! It’s like a tiny, hand held cheesecake. I love it!
I love this recipe and the cute little flags you made! Those flavors are so classic, and your tags are super adorable. Love it.
I love red velvet. These super easy cupcakes need to be in my life right now.
My son’s favorite cake flavor is red velvet. He would be all over these cupcakes!
These look, sound delicious, definitely will try.
I love Red Velvet and what a cute idea with the labels. Would be a fun surprise for the kids.
We stay in for Valentine’s Day since the restaurants get so packed here. We do a nice dinner and a little dessert. These cupcakes with the cute little labels looks like a fun option!
I like my chocolate with caramel in it. These cupcakes look yummy.
Yum! I’d love to bake some cupcakes! The labels you made look super cute on yours! Perfect for a party!
What is more festive than red velvet cupcakes on Valentine’s Day. The flags and labels give them such a professional touch you rock.
You had me at red velvet! Love red velvet especially in the form of cupcakes
That is such a clever way to use a printer labeler! I love that it is pink too! Mine is so boring in black and white!
You got me at red velvet. I love the taste of anything with that flavoring. Yummy cupcakes. Looks like you will have a very nice valentines day celebration.
I love anything chocolate and sweet. I do love the contrasting flavor of salt with it. That is why Salty Caramels covered in chocolate are so good.
Oh wow! I love red velvet anything! This looks SO delicious!
I love a good steak with all the fixings. Followed by a decadent chocolate dessert.
These look great and easy to make.
Hey, it’s not too late to get in on making these little yummies!
sweet treats are my favorite! I love valentines decorated donuts! But these cupcakes look delicious too!
These are adorable cupcakes. I will have to grab the ingredients I need to make these for our Valentines dessert.
One word:yum! Your cupcakes look absolutely delicious! And how adorable are those flags. That’s such a cute idea.
i love something sweet. I love chocolates….chocolate covered strawberries. yum
chocolate covered caramels are my favorite
chocolate covered caramels are my favorite for the sweet. For the savory I like crackers with goat cheese.
These are so good looking! I would love to make this for my daughter’s class!
It looks cute and delicious! Nice idea for the design, the label maker is perfect!
So darling. My dad is obsessed with his label maker. I need to help him make these for my mom.
These looks so cute and delicious. I’ll have to use my label maker to make some of these cute labels for my cupcakes.
I do sweets all the time, so I look forward to a savory treat. Fresh seafood, a fine cut of beef or lamb… Also I’m crossing my fingers, the OCD in me wants this prize something awful.
I don’t think my husband is a big fan of red velvet, but I like it. Cheesecake, well, everybody likes cheesecake. That makes this recipe delicious for me.
The red velvet cake looks really delicious, I want to make one now. I love the design!
You had me at Red Velvet!! I love anything Red Velvet and these cupcakes look amazing!!
Would work great with paper crafting
My favorite Valentine treat is chocolates and chocolate is yummy to me!
Those cupcakes sound amazing. I love Red Velvet and Cheesecake. I should make some for dessert tonight. I do need to go to the store this afternoon. Maybe I will grab some cake mix. or just buy some goodies 🙂
I like to spoil myself with fois gras
we love valentine vanilla cupcakes and heart cookies! Yum yum!
Aww – those cupcakes are super pretty! I love cupcakes, but I usually make chocolate. I know a lot of people who like Red Velvet though! 🙂
These cupcakes look amazing. You did a great job with them. They really turned out great. I’m not usually the best at topping cupcakes. I do love red velvet though!
My favorite Valentine’s Day treats are dark chocolate espresso beans. I’ve tried them recently for the first time & they are amazingly good.
Yum, Yum! These look delicious and I love the little labels, too! So cute!
I don’t have a favorite I guess. The past years we have made a new healthy dessert. Last year was protein pancakes. Those were really good. I tend to like sweets better than salty foods.
My favorite is definitely sweet. Give me some chocolate and I am in Heaven. If there is no chocolate around, then salty chips will do. LOL Yeah, diets and me don’t really get along well. LOL
Your cupcakes are beautiful! My favorite treat is chocolate…and more chocolate 🙂
I love dark chocolates.
My favorite Valentine treat is chocolate dipped strawberries. I make this for my family and hubby too on Valentine’s Day.
My neighbor brought me over the best valentine candy. It was made out of cookie dough(no egg) and dipped in chocolate.
These look absolutely scrumptious! Red velvet cupcakes are my absolute favorite kind of cupcakes! I want some now!
My favorite valentines treats to eat are sweets. Lots of chocolate. Add peanut butter and ice cream and Im in heaven.
I love mint melt-aways from a local candy store. A good box of chocolate with nuts. yum
What beautiful cupcakes! I have never made red velvet cupcakes, and the cheesecake is a bonus! I’ll have to give these a try.
My favorite Valentine Treat is Chocolate — Milk chocolate is my favorite.
My favorite Valentine treat is sweet. We were out of milk, so my husband pickup milk and a half dozen donuts at 4 am on his way home from work. The best husband in the world.
My favorite treat is milk chocolate. I especially like caramel and peanut butter filled chocolates.
Would love a label maker to get organized.
MY FAVE V DAY TREAT IS RICE KRISPY TREATS. THEY ARE SWEET BUT NOT TO SWEET AND HAVE JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF CRUNCH
I’m a huge fruit person. My valentine got me some heart-shaped watermelon 🙂
My fave Valentine’s Day treat is Cheesecake. I don’t like it too sweet though and I love to add blueberries or strawberries.
It looks cute and looks a yummy cupcakes too. I would love to try this on my own.
Red Velvet always screamed Valentines Day to me. This looks super delish!
My niece loves red velvet cake,if I make this recipe she is going to loooove them and look so good
A box of chocolate would do me fine.
I love red velvet and cheesecake, so I’m sure this would be delicious! It sure does look it!
My favorite Valentine’s day treat is cupcakes!
My favorite Valentine’s day treat is vanilla Cheesecake either plain or with strawberries so it is sweete. Sometimes I crave sweet and salty so I will make Turtle cheesecake instead. Either way they are both delicious!
My favorite Valentine treat is Ferrero Rocher. My husband buys me them every year. This year he got me chocolate covered strawberries too and they were great.
My favorite Valentine treat is chocolate covered strawberry. I am huge fan of savory. I love to eat anything with chocolates
My favorite by far is Chocolate Covered Strawberries! I love them but don’t usually eat them except when I receive some for Valentine’s Day! These cupcakes look delicious!
This super easy red velvet cheesecake cupcakes seem perfect with the little flags on them for Valentime’s Day. We always stayed home with the kids and ate chocolates on Valentine’s day when they were young. Now that they are men we go out usually on Valentine’s day. These cupcakes would be great for any Valentine party for sure. Thanks for sharing the recipe and the giveaway.
The addition of those cupcake flags is sweet indeed! Love it! Red velvet is one of my fave flavors. Yum!
Cheesecake is my favorite Valentines day treat. I love red velvet cheesecake and oreo cheesecake the most but I pretty much like all of them except for Cherry.
I like the flags on top. Those make them extra fun!
I like those sugar cookies with icing that you can buy from the grocery store. Chocolate candies are also yummy! 🙂
I like chocolate and peanutbutter
These cupcakes look and sound scrumptious! I can hardly wait to try your recipe and really appreciate you sharing it with all of your readers. Yum! I wish I had one now!
I’ll take all of these minus the sprinkles. I love me some red velvet cake and will have to try these. – yolonda
I like cupcakes best. It is sweet.
These sound delicious and my girls would flip for them. My husband and I spend our Valentine’s Day with our girls as well. The sweet notes were literally the icing on the cake. LOVE THEM.
My favorite valentine’s day treat are chocolates. I like the chocolates with nuts in them
I love my chocolate! A chocolate cake with chocolate frosting would be nice!
I always make chocolate covered strawberries for my family
This is a very neat idea for Valentines day! Red velvet is my favorite but this variation sounds even better!
I make the softest sugar cookies! I make them heart shaped with home made icing.
Looks delicious.maybe I can win this label
I love those little conversational hearts! And I also found some little Nestle Crunch hearts this year…I like those!
I don’t have a favorite treat but I would choose something savory or salty over sweets because they cause me tummy troubles.
My favorite treats are sweet! Anything chocolate or caramel is perfect in my book.
Beautiful red velvet cake.. its one of my favorite cakes, can’t wait to try this easy recipe!
So much yes! I love that the recipe has cheesecake flavor in the batter AND in the frosting.
I can’t live without my label maker, but I have never used it to label my cupcakes before, I like this idea! Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone! 🙂
I’ve always loved a mixture of sweet and savory together. I make a little cake with blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries, and then add a drop of whtefish salad on top. Don’t laugh, it’s really good!
I love chocolate! Chocolate covered gummies are delicious!
I love a homemade heart shaped pizza and Lindt / Lindor Truffles – I love all of the flavors I have tried so far, and just got a new to me one, Coconut White Chocolate that I will saver 1 or 2 of this evening..
I love cupcakes!…and cookies and chips and ice cream and pizza. But, I digress, sorry. Yummy stuff!
We had cupcakes and we really enjoyed it. Maybe there was a meat stick in there. So sweet and salty.
My favorite Valentine’s Day treat is something sweet. I like chocolate candy, cupcakes, cake, chocolate covered strawberries. These red velvet cheesecake cupcakes look so good too.
My favorite valentines day treat is probably chocolate covered pretzels. I also like cupcakes.
I like both sweet and savory things. My favorite Valentines Day edibles are chocolate dipped fruits and things such as nuts – cake pops & chocolate covered pretzels, small things I can munch on. The kids love to help me craft valentines goodies for their classes and they get to be as creative as they want since the edibles are usually small kid size portions. Win win all around!
I love a really great chocolate truffle for Valentine’s Day… or any day really.. but it is my favorite treat for V Day as well. The only time I like salty is if it covered in chocolate.
I prefer something sweet for Valentine’s Day. I love chocolate covered strawberries.
I love dark chocolate covered strawberries!
My favorite Valentine treat is assorted chocolates.
Your cupcakes are so pretty and sound delicious. My favorite Valentine’s treat are boxed chocolates, the kind that you need have to look at the lid to know what they kind they are.
I like that these can be personalized and they look yummy but I like to use this idea for other cakes too thanks
My favorite Vday treay would have to be chocolate cupcakes. But then….anything chocolate will do 😉
I love Godiva truffles. Actually Godiva anything. Valentine’s Day is the one day I don’t feel guilty about accepting them as a gift.
My favorite Valentine treat is Red Velvet cupcakes and a box of chocolates. I know this sounds like a crazy combo but it works for me every Valentine holiday.
my wife makes me a simple spice cake shaped in a heart with butter cream frosting it is great and she decorates it up so cute very special to me
My favorite Valentine’s Day treat is dark chocolate. I prefer the not too sweet type.
My favorite treat is a home made dessert. My second favorite is a card that is hand made.
My favorite Valentine’s Day treat is a cupcake. My daughter makes the best chocolate cupcakes with mocha frosting.
My favorite Valentine’s Day treat is homemade fudge brownies!
My favorite Valentine treat is sweet. I absolutely love dark chocolate, almost anything dark.
My favorite Valentine’s Day treat has to be sweet. It has to be chocolate. It may even have peanut butter with the chocolate like a chocolate peanut butter cup.
I love cupcakes and sugar cookies! Your cupcakes looks amazing! The labels are such a wonderful idea!
i love candy hearts
I’d never say no to chocolate! Any chocolate – white, milk, covering nuts, dark chocolate,
I love anything sweet for Valentine’s Day. I especially love chocolate-covered strawberries!
There’s not many sweet treats I don’t like. My favorite would have to have chocolate in it.
I’m really into chocolate covered fruit on Valentines, especially strawberries. I do like a lot of candies, too.
I love anything chocolate for Valentine’s Day! A chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting. Yum.
I’m not much of a chocolate fan. My favorite is caramel anything. Or fruity blends.
I’m a Type 1 Diabetic, but I still like something sweet from time to time, I just have to be smart and careful about when I chose to eat it. I’ve had this disease since I was 15 an I’m 43 now, so I know how to do it. If I have a desert it will be with a meal so I will have it with my shot so my sugar doesn’t go to high. So, to answer your question, I crave something like strawberry shortcake. YUM!! Sorry for the long answer….
I like anything dark chocolate and raspberry
My favorite Valentine’s Day treat is a big box of dark chocolate See’s candy. I especially love their truffles!
I love red velvet cupcakes! They are so rich and sweet and, of course, YUMMY!
I like plain cheesecake, or with a small drizzle or chocolate and/or caramel. I don’t like fruit topping as much, though.
I love anything chocolate salty with carmel or cupcakes with buttercream frosting . I my god I love my sweets.
I love sweet Valentine’s Day treats like candy or cupcakes!
My favorite Valentine’s Day treat is chocolate covered strawberries. My husband always makes them and they are delicious! Thanks for the chance to win!
Favorite treat for Valentines day is a cheesecake.
My favorite treat would be a chocolate souffle! 🙂
My kids would absolutely adore these cupcakes!
If i get a great on Valentine’s day, I want it to be sweet! Like homemade cupcakes from my daughter’s BFF!
For a Valentine’s Day treat I would have to side with sweet. Gotta have my chocolate.
I just love Godiva Chocolates.
I’m a milk chocolate fan so I’d have to go with sweet. But I won’t turn down a good steak either!
My favorite Valentine’s Day treat is chocolate. I really love chocolate covered strawberries.
My favorite Valentine Treat is Chocolate love lots of it and so does the rest of my family. My kids even ask for a box each so they can enjoy some to and then i dont have to share mine with them. Hubby just enjoy everyones candy we do share with him.
I know valentine’s day is over, but these look too good to pass up. We definitely need to make them.