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Snowman cupcakes are super cute and fun Christmas cupcakes made with a chocolate base, and decorated with marshmallows and frosting!
Snowman Cupcakes
SNOWMAN CUPCAKES
Snowman cupcakes are super cute and fun Christmas cupcakes made with a chocolate base, and decorated with marshmallows and frosting!
In the past 2 months I’ve been baking a lot of cupcakes! I gotta admit that I’m somewhat obsessed. And they’re great especially when they turn out very cute and tasty. I mean, who doesn’t love a good fudgy cupcake?!
For me Christmas baking means…
Snowman cupcakes
Steamed Christmas pudding
Lots of Christmas cookies!
Christmas tree cupcakes
And a freshly baked panettone!
…Have you noticed how I mentioned cupcakes twice? I can’t help it!
CHRISTMAS CUPCAKES
I’ve been using a chocolate base for many of the cupcakes that I’ve been making, check out my Christmas Tree Cupcakes where I made cupcakes that look like Christmas trees! I LOVE Christmas cupcakes, there are many things that you can do with the decorations!
As I said I love chocolate base cupcakes, and the reason why I keep using it is because it’s very chocolatey, moist, fudgy, and they turns out perfect every single time! Seriously, this is an easy foolproof recipe that you need to bookmark!
I decorated these Snowman cupcakes with simple vanilla frosting, Sprinkles or funfetti for buttons, and white marshmallows for the head. To draw faces and arms, I just used black icing (you can buy a ready store bought one or use charcoal for natural colouring). As for the white frosting, you can also pipe out the vanilla frosting from an icing bag using tip 1A, but I frosted my cupcakes using a spoon just because it’s easier.
HOW TO MAKE THE NOSES
There are many ways to make the nose!
1. Use fondant and orange food colouring and roll out a little piece of the fondant to make a nose shape.
2. You can use orange icing, and make a dot? It will look cute as well!
HOW TO STICK THE NOSES TO THE MARSHMALLOW HEADS
To stick the fondant noses to the marshmallows, use a little bit of water. You could also use sugar fondant glue, or even a little bit of shortening will help!
HOW TO MAKE THE BUTTERCREAM FROSTING
You will need:
1 1/2 cups (340 grams) of butter in room temperature
5 1/2 cups (650 grams) powdered/caster sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
Milk (around 2 tbsp)
90 grams all purpose flour
65 grams cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
2 large eggs
200 grams granulated sugar
78 ml vegetable oil
120 ml milk
2 tsp vanilla extract
12 marshmallows
Vanilla frosting
Black icing
Funfetti or sugar pearls to decorate
Preheat oven to 180c and line a 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 toothpick comes out clean. When completely chilled, decorate with the vanilla frosting and put a marshmallow on each cupcake.
Draw faces and arms using the black icing, and make buttons out of the sprinkles/funfetti. To make the nose use fondant.
Snowman Cupcakes
SNOWMAN CUPCAKES
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Snowman cupcakes are super cute and fun Christmas cupcakes made with a chocolate base, and decorated with marshmallows and frosting!
In the past 2 months I’ve been baking a lot of cupcakes! I gotta admit that I’m somewhat obsessed. And they’re great especially when they turn out very cute and tasty. I mean, who doesn’t love a good fudgy cupcake?!
Snowman cupcakes
Steamed Christmas pudding
Lots of Christmas cookies!
Christmas tree cupcakes
And a freshly baked panettone!
…Have you noticed how I mentioned cupcakes twice? I can’t help it!
CHRISTMAS CUPCAKES
I’ve been using a chocolate base for many of the cupcakes that I’ve been making, check out my Christmas Tree Cupcakes where I made cupcakes that look like Christmas trees! I LOVE Christmas cupcakes, there are many things that you can do with the decorations!
As I said I love chocolate base cupcakes, and the reason why I keep using it is because it’s very chocolatey, moist, fudgy, and they turns out perfect every single time! Seriously, this is an easy foolproof recipe that you need to bookmark!
I decorated these Snowman cupcakes with simple vanilla frosting, Sprinkles or funfetti for buttons, and white marshmallows for the head. To draw faces and arms, I just used black icing (you can buy a ready store bought one or use charcoal for natural colouring). As for the white frosting, you can also pipe out the vanilla frosting from an icing bag using tip 1A, but I frosted my cupcakes using a spoon just because it’s easier.
HOW TO MAKE THE NOSES
There are many ways to make the nose!
1. Use fondant and orange food colouring and roll out a little piece of the fondant to make a nose shape.
2. You can use orange icing, and make a dot? It will look cute as well!
HOW TO STICK THE NOSES TO THE MARSHMALLOW HEADS
To stick the fondant noses to the marshmallows, use a little bit of water. You could also use sugar fondant glue, or even a little bit of shortening will help!
HOW TO MAKE THE BUTTERCREAM FROSTING
You will need:
1 1/2 cups (340 grams) of butter in room temperature
5 1/2 cups (650 grams) powdered/caster sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
Milk (around 2 tbsp)
Ingredients
90 grams all purpose flour
65 grams cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
2 large eggs
200 grams granulated sugar
78 ml vegetable oil
120 ml milk
2 tsp vanilla extract
12 marshmallows
Vanilla frosting
Black icing
Funfetti or sugar pearls to decorate
Instructions
Preheat oven to 180c and line a 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 toothpick comes out clean. When completely chilled, decorate with the vanilla frosting and put a marshmallow on each cupcake.
Draw faces and arms using the black icing, and make buttons out of the sprinkles/funfetti. To make the nose use fondant.
