Cupcake frenzy! Holiday Christmas cupcakes edition

Once again, we are going to introduce our cupcake frenzy segment for all of you cupcake lovers to make! If you have been keeping up with our blog or have went back to October and read our previous cupcake frenzy posts, then you can see that we definitely have some very creative and easy ideas for you to make your holiday cupcakes. These fabulous ideas are not our own, but enjoy and hope you made the best cupcakes for your guests to try!

Jolly Santa Claus Cupcake

Cupcake

White and red icing

Mini marshmallow

Shredded coconut

Blue and pink gel icing

Red candy

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

Edible Ornaments Cupcake

Cupcakes

Colorful frosting

Red and green candy such as M&Ms

 Mini Reeses Peanut Butter Cups

 Pretzels

1.        To make them, frost a batch of cooled cupcakes (baked from your favorite recipe) with colorful frosting.

2.        Decorate with festive icing and candies (we used red and green M&Ms Minis), then top each one with a miniature Reeses Peanut Butter Cup and a pretzel piece for an ornament hanger. Don't forget to save one for Santa.

Mistletoe Cupcakes

Cooled cupcakes (baked from your favorite recipe)

White icing

Grated coconut

Green gumdrops

Sugar, for sprinkling gumdrop leaves

Red candy for holly berries (M&Ms work well)

1.        Frost the cupcakes with snowy white icing and top with grated coconut.

2.        Then use a rolling pin to flatten green gumdrops on a piece of waxed paper sprinkled with sugar. Use an aspic cutter or butter knife to cut out holly leaf shapes.

3.        Arrange two or three leaves and a few red candy "berries" on top of each cupcake, pressing them into the frosting just enough to hold them in place.

That's all for now folks! I am off to make my own Christmas cupcakes! Enjoy! Part 2 of Christmas Holiday Cupcake frenzy will be up very soon!

Cupcake frenzy! Halloween themed cupcakes Part 2

Hello again! I promised you more posts on cupcakes for Halloween. I believe the previous cupcakes are fairly easy to design, have you tried making them yet? Here are the second batches you can try for Halloween!

 Brainiac Cupcakes

• 1  batch One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes
• Swiss Meringue Buttercream for Cupcakes

1. Prepare chocolate cupcakes according to recipe. Cool completely.
2. While cupcakes are cooling, make buttercream.
3. To decorate, use a medium round tip (such as Ateco #12) to pipe a mound of buttercream in the center of cupcake, then outline and pipe a brain design over it. 

 Wicked Witch Cupcakes

• 24  brown mini M&Ms, plus more for filling (optional)
• Hershey's Chocolate Cupcakes
• Dirty Green Simple Buttercream
• 12  chocolate sugar cones
• 1 pound(s) black licorice laces, cut into 1/4-inch, 1/2-inch, and 2-inch lengths
• 12  candy corns

1. Using a melon baller, scoop out the center of each cupcake and fill with mini M&Ms, if desired.
2. Cover the tops of each cupcake with a generous mound (about 1/3 cup) of buttercream. Insert one candy corn into each cupcake to form a nose. Using brown mini M&Ms, insert two into each cupcake to form eyes. Place two short lengths of licorice above the eyes to form eyebrows for the witch. Place the shorter licorice lengths above the eyebrows to form bangs. Place an inverted cone on top of bangs, pressing gently into buttercream to adhere. Place the longer licorice lengths under the cone hat to form the hair.

 Tentacle Alien Monster Cupcake

Prepare the vanilla or chocolate cupcake recipe. Spread each cupcake with a thin layer of meringue buttercream tinted with a few drops of green food coloring. Cut strips of green taffy and attach around the top of each cupcake. For the eye, slice a yellow gumdrop in half and press into the top of the cupcake. A piece of black licorice attached in front of the gumdrop completes the creepy gaze.

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