ugly cupcakes

*sigh* I thought i'd be adventurous and make some cupcakes for work tomorrow. they're tasty, but they aren't pretty. is there some trick to frosting? They're supposed to be chocolate with white frosting and little sugar hearts. they came out speckled because the tops kept crumbling off as I was spreading the frosting on them. and then I managed to squish some of them with the cover of the cake carrier. yay! maybe if I'm lucky, I can have a wreck on the way to work tomorrow and toss them around in there so it will just be a big blob of cake and frosting and paper cups.