Christmas Snowman Cupcakes Recipes

SNOWMAN CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Trim the dry top off 12 of the cupcakes and crumble the soft cake interiors into a bowl. Add about 5 ounces of vanilla icing and mix well. Add more frosting if needed to bring the mixture together into a ball so that it can be easily shaped. Cover bowl and chill cake mixture in the fridge for 20 minutes.
• Frost remaining 12 cupcakes with a thin layer of white vanilla frosting.
• Remove cake mixture and roll with wet hands into 2 different sized balls for the snowmen's torsos and heads, 12 bigger balls and 12 smaller balls. Stick a small ball on top of a big ball to make the snowman, using some frosting if the balls are not very sticky. Place snowmen onto frosted cupcakes.
• Cut black licorice laces into small squares for the eyes and mouth using scissors and attach them with the tip of a knife to the head.
• Mix white fondant with orange food coloring to turn it orange and make little carrot noses out of the orange fondant. Press into the snowman faces.
• Attach 2 dark colored candy-coated milk chocolate pieces into the torso and cupcake as buttons. Attach 2 candy-coated milk chocolate pieces on either side of the head and connect them with a piece of black licorice for the earmuffs.
• Cut red licorice laces into 2 1/2-inch long pieces and wrap around the snowman's neck as a scarf.

SNOWMAN CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F/180°C and line a cupcake/muffin baking pan with 12 cupcake liners.
• In a medium sized bowl, whisk together the eggs, sugar, oil, and vanilla extract.
• Stir in milk, then add the rest of the ingredients (flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt), and mix until just combined but do not over mix. They batter won't be very thick, sort of runny and that's okay.
• Pour the batter into liners, and bake for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. When completely cooled down, decorate.

PULL-APART CUPCAKE SNOWMAN

Steps:

• Arrange 14 cupcakes in a tight circle on a platter or cake board for the body and 7 cupcakes in a smaller tight circle for the head. Add 2 cupcakes for the scarf.
• Using a small serrated knife, cut 7 chocolate wafer cookies in half; spread frosting on the back and arrange around the edge of the cupcake circles as shown to round out the shape.
• Cut 6 more cookies into quarters. Spread frosting on the back, then use to fill in the gaps between the cupcakes.
• Transfer the remaining frosting to a piping bag with a 1/2-inch round tip. Pipe dots of varying size all over the cupcakes and cookies to cover completely. Add chocolate candies for eyes and buttons and trim a circus peanut for the nose. Roll out the fondant until 1/4 inch thick; trim into 2 strips for the scarf and fringe the ends. Place on the snowman.

JOLLY SNOWMAN CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups. Make cake batter as directed on box for 24 cupcakes. Stir in 1/4 cup candy sprinkles. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups (about two-thirds full).
• Bake 14 to 19 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
• Place 1/4 cup frosting each in 3 small bowls, and tint 1 bowl blue, 1 bowl green, and 1 bowl red with food colors. Place 1 tablespoon vanilla frosting in small bowl, and tint brown with food color to desired color. Spoon brown colored frosting into small resealable food-storage plastic bag; partially seal bag, and set aside.
• On each cupcake, spread 2 teaspoons of the remaining vanilla frosting to cover two-thirds of cupcake; place 2 candy eyeballs, and 1 orange triangle for nose. Cut off tiny corner of brown frosting bag, and squeeze bag to pipe a half circle under nose for a smile. For hat, spread generous teaspoon of blue frosting on cupcake, and immediately sprinkle with white sprinkles on colored edge to make brim. Place 1 marshmallow for pom pom. Repeat frosting for hat and sprinkles with remaining cupcakes and colored frostings (use photo as guide).
• Store loosely covered at room temperature.

SNOWMAN CUPCAKES | CHRISTMAS CUPCAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Line a cupcake pan with liners.
• Prepare the cake mix according to directions. Pour into the cupcake pan.
• Bake for 15 minutes or until the top is golden brown. Let cool.
• Pipe the white frosting onto the cupcakes.
• On a large marshmallow, use the black frosting to pipe two dots for eyes. Use the orange frosting to pipe a carrot nose.
• Place the marshmallow on top of the frosted cupcake.
• Stick 2 pretzel sticks on either side of the marshmallow head for arms.
• Use the black decorating frosting to add three black dots below the marshmallow head for buttons.

CHRISTMAS SNOWMAN CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Melt 2 chocolate coins in the microwave or in in a bowl over a pan of simmering water, until liquified.
• Dip each cylindrical/round chocolate into the melted chocolate and 'glue' to the coins of chocolate, to look like tophats.
• Sieve icing sugar and add to soft butter and hot water.
• Mix slowly for 2 minutes, then fast, until light and creamy.
• Spread buttercream over each cupcake, leaving a little over to 'glue' the hats on later.
• Place a marshmallow in the middle of each cupcake.
• Snap each chocolate stick in half and place into the cupcake for arms.
• Pipe on a green scarf around the marshmallow.
• Pipe on black eyes and red or orange nose and buttons (If it doesn't stick very well, slightly dampen the side of the marshmallow with a wet finger).
• "Glue" on the tophat with remaining buttercream.