• Enjoy pink cupcakes on any occasion.Girl Eating Cupcake image by Kalani from Fotolia.com
  
  Pink cupcakes are a fun way to celebrate a birthday, a holiday or any day. Flavored with lemon, vanilla, chocolate or raspberry, these are sure to bring a smile. Look for pink candy sprinkles, colored sugar or edible glitter to add to the pink theme. Pink cupcakes arranged on a platter make a colorful centerpiece to a party table, too.
  
  

Red Velvet

• Red Velvet cupcakes are a classic confection with an old-fashioned flair. Simply add red food coloring and cocoa to any vanilla cupcake recipe to achieve a deep pink coloring. Top with pink-dyed cream cheese frosting and pink colored sugar.
  
  

Pink Lemonade

• Replace the liquid in a white cupcake recipe with thawed pink lemonade concentrate. Add a few drops of red food coloring to deepen the pink. Top with pink-tinged butter cream, flavored with a hint of the pink lemonade concentrate, and pink candy sprinkles. A lemon jelly candy wedge adds a tasty garnish to this cupcake.
  
  

Raspberry

• Crushed fresh or frozen raspberries will add a fruity flavor and beautiful deep pink blush to a favorite white cupcake recipe. Make a syrup to flavor and color a whipped cream frosting by covering raspberries with water in a pan and adding sugar to taste. Bring the water to a boil and cook the mixture until thickened, about 10 minutes. Top the cupcakes with whipped cream and drizzle with the raspberry syrup.
  
  

Pink Themes

• Pink cupcakes decorated with fresh strawberries or raspberries make a delicious summer picnic desert. Color vanilla icing with red food dye to make several shades of pink. Provide bowls of pink candies, sprinkles and colored sugar, and let kids of all ages decorate their own pink cupcakes. Pink is a Valentine's Day and Easter color, and cupcakes make an eye-catching centerpiece to a holiday-themed table on either day. For Valentine's Day, try piping a pink heart onto white icing or topping cupcakes with pink-dyed coconut. For Easter, pink cupcakes can represent the coming of spring flowers. Use piping tools to create pink petals on top of the little cakes.