Holiday Cupcake Decorating

Tired of eating plain frosted cupcakes? I know I am. Give your cupcakes a new look this holiday season by decorating them like Santa Claus and a snowman! For the Santa Claus cupcake, the frosting is his hat and his beard is made out of coconut shreds. For the snowman cupcake, his body is made out of marshmallows with a pretzel as his arms. His hat is a Junior Mint on top of a Thin Mint, and lastly, his scarf is a piece of fruit leather (aka dried fruit). Hope you love these cute cupcakes just as much as I do!

Santa Claus Cupcake

Ingredients:

Cupcake

White and red icing

Mini marshmallow

Shredded coconut

Blue and pink gel icing

Red candy

Directions  

1.   Frost the cupcake with a layer of white icing. Add the red frosting hat, curving it around the side of Santa's face, and a marshmallow pom-pom.

2.  Sprinkle on a ring of coconut to make Santa's beard and hair. Draw on his eyes and cheeks with gel icing, then top it all off with a red candy nose.

      

      Snowman Cupcake

      Ingredients

Cupcake

White icing

Large marshmallows

Waxed paper

Pretzel sticks

Decorators' gel

Orange slice candy

Junior Mints

Thin Mints

Fruit leather

       

      Directions

1. Frost a cooled cupcake with white icing.

2. Flatten a large marshmallow on waxed paper with the palm of your hand. Cut a second marshmallow in half horizontally, then stack the halves on the first marshmallow to form a torso and head.

3. Push a thin pretzel stick down through the snowman (this will help him stand up), then set him on the cupcake.

4. Use decorators' gel to create a mouth, eyes, and buttons, then add pretzel stick arms and a wedge cut from an orange slice candy for a nose.

5. Accessorize with a candy hat (a Junior Mint secured to a Thin Mint with icing) and a fruit leather scarf.