Delight the kids and adults alike at your next holiday party. These easy reindeer cupcakes look like they came straight from the North Pole.
Easy Reindeer Cupcakes
Cupcake Ingredients:
2½ cups flour
1 tbsp. cocoa powder
1½ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
½ cup butter, soft, plus 4 tbsp.
¼ cup softened shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1 TBSP Red Velvet extract
1 cup buttermilk
1 tbsp. Red gel food color
Frosting Ingredients:
1 C unsalted butter, softened
3/4 C cocoa powder
3 C powder sugar
3/4 C heavy cream
Wilton’s Reindeer decoration kit
Cupcake Directions:
-Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
-Line cupcake tins with paper liners.
-Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt.
-Mix with a wire whisk.
-In a separate bowl using an electric mixer, beat the butter, shortening and sugar until it is light and creamy.
-Add the egg, vanilla, red velvet extract, and red gel food coloring.
-Mix well.
-Add flour and buttermilk, 1/2 of each at a time, mix until completely combined.
-Spoon the batter into the lined cupcake tins until 2/3’s filled.
-Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
-Cool for 10 minutes.
-Remove from cupcake tins to a wire rack until totally cooled.
Frosting Directions:
-Beat the softened butter alone until smooth.
-Add cocoa and powder sugar alternately with heavy cream into the creamed butter until it becomes a smooth and thick texture.
-If the frosting is too thick, add more heavy cream, if too thin, add more powder sugar.
-Scoop frosting into a large pastry bag with a large round tip.
-Twist the open end of the pastry bag to push frosting to the tip.
-Frost cupcakes beginning from the outside edge to the center.
-Refer to the picture of the reindeer cupcake for additional details.
-Place the antlers on each side of the frosted cupcake. Each antler should face each other.
-Add the black candy for the nose then place the two eyes just above the nose.
-For the girl reindeer add a red bow right between the antlers.
- 2½ cups flour
- 1 tbsp. cocoa powder
- 1½ tsp. baking soda
- ½ tsp. salt
- ½ cup butter, soft, plus 4 tbsp.
- ¼ cup softened shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 TBSP Red Velvet extract
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 tbsp. Red gel food color
- 1 C unsalted butter, softened
- 3/4 C cocoa powder
- 3 C powder sugar
- 3/4 C heavy cream
- Wilton’s Reindeer decoration kit
- -Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- -Line cupcake tins with paper liners.
- -Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt.
- -Mix with a wire whisk.
- -In a separate bowl using an electric mixer, beat the butter, shortening and sugar until it is light and creamy.
- -Add the egg, vanilla, red velvet extract, and red gel food coloring.
- -Mix well.
- -Add flour and buttermilk, 1/2 of each at a time, mix until completely combined.
- -Spoon the batter into the lined cupcake tins until 2/3’s filled.
- -Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- -Cool for 10 minutes.
- -Remove from cupcake tins to a wire rack until totally cooled.
- -Beat the softened butter alone until smooth.
- -Add cocoa and powder sugar alternately with heavy cream into the creamed butter until it becomes a smooth and thick texture.
- -If the frosting is too thick, add more heavy cream, if too thin, add more powder sugar.
- -Scoop frosting into a large pastry bag with a large roundtip.
- -Twist the open end of the pastry bag to push frosting to the tip.
- -Frost cupcakes beginning from the outside edge to the center.
- -Refer to the picture of the reindeer cupcake for additional details.
- -Place the antlers on each side of the frosted cupcake. Each antler should face each other.
- -Add the black candy for the nose then place the two eyes just above the nose.
- -For the girl reindeer add a red bow right between the antlers.
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