Christmas Reindeer Cupcakes recipe
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Ingredients
- 9 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature ¾ cup white sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 eggs 1 ½ cups sifted self-rising flour ½ cup milk 1 cup confectioners' sugar 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, room temperature 1 tablespoon milk 1 drop brown food coloring 6 vanilla wafer cookies (such as Nilla®) 12 red jelly beans 24 candy eyeballs 24 chewy chocolate-flavored candy (such as Tootsie Roll®) 24 pretzels
Nutrition Info
- 426.8 caloriescarbohydrate: 77.1 gcholesterol: 57.4 mgfat: 13.9 gfiber: 1.8 gprotein: 6.3 gsaturatedFat: 7.1 gservingSize: -sodium: 815.3 mgsugar: 36.2 gtransFat: : -unsaturatedFat: : -
Directions Christmas Reindeer Cupcakes
Directions
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin or line cups with paper liners.
Combine 9 tablespoons butter, white sugar, and vanilla extract in a large bowl, beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Add eggs one at a time and beat until well combined. Fold in half the flour and 1/4 cup milk and stir to combine. Repeat with remaining flour and milk. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 18 minutes.
Remove tin from oven and cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Remove cupcakes from the tin and cool completely on a wire rack before decorating, about 1 hour.
Combine confections' sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, and 1 tablespoon milk in a large bowl, beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Thin frosting with a little milk or water, if necessary. Add food coloring and stir until frosting is uniformly brown. Add more food coloring, 1 drop at a time, until frosting is the color you like.
Spread a thin layer of frosting on top of each cupcake. Break vanilla cookies in half. Place a cookie half on each cupcake as a mouth. Use a bit of frosting to \"glue\" a jelly bean onto the cookie for Rudolph's red nose. Stick 2 candy eyeballs into each cupcake. Break off a piece from each pretzel so they look like antlers and stick 2 into the top of each cupcakes. Shape chewy candies into ears and stick 2 into the sides of each cupcake.