Holiday Cupcakes

Name: Holiday Cupcakes
Prep time: 55 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 4 smalls blue colored candy canes, U shape broken off to make a cup handle and straight part broken into small pieces; 360 grams confectioners sugar, sifted; 12 servings White cranberry juice; 4 cupcakes; 2 larges egg whites or 5 tablespoons meringue powder; 12 servings Food coloring, if desired; 12 servings Fruit roll-up (recommended: Fruit by the Foot); 4 red gum drops; 1 containers white icing; 1 container white icing; 1 slice Orange jelly candy, cut into ting wedges for the nose; 8 blue candy covered chocolates or blue jelly beans; 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 6 larges marshmallows; 1 teaspoons peppermint extract; 1 box white cake mix; 4 larges yogurt covered pretzels; 4 smalls thin pretzel sticks or tooth picks

The recipe Holiday Cupcakes can be made in roughly 55 minutes. For $3.75 per serving, you get a dessert that serves 12. One serving contains 740 calories, 4g of protein, and 13g of fat. This recipe is typical of American cuisine. If you have food coloring, confectioners' sugar, peppermint extract, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Holiday Cookies, Holiday Egg Nog, and Holiday Sausage Dressing.

Instructions

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Bake according to package instructions for cupcakes, adding 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract to batter and substituting white cranberry juice for water.

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White Cranberry Juice

Peppermint Extract

Cupcakes

Water

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Oven

Fill a zip top bag with icing. Snip a small corner of the bag and pipe icing onto each cupcake to look like whipped cream on top of the "cup".

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Whipped Cream

Cupcakes

Icing

Poke a small hole in the side of each cupcake using a chopstick or tooth pick and fill the hole with royal icing. Insert one end of the "U" shape candy cane piece into hole and the other end into the icing to make your "cup" cake.

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Candy Cane

Cupcakes

Icing

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Chopsticks

Sprinkle with crushed candy cane pieces.

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Candy Cane

Using a butter knife or spatula, lightly frost the cupcakes.

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Cupcakes

Butter

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Butter Knife

Spatula

Flatten a large marshmallow on waxed paper with the palm of your hand.

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Marshmallows

Cut a second marshmallow in half horizontally, then stack the first half flat on the first marshmallow to form a torso then the second on it's side for a head. Thread a pretzel stick or toothpick through the bottom to secure marshmallows and stick into cupcake top.

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Pretzel Sticks

Marshmallows

Cupcakes

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Toothpicks

Use royal icing to attach cake decorating dots as eyes and buttons.

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Icing

Add a wedge cut from an orange slice candy for a nose.

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Orange

Candy

Using a butter knife or spatula, lightly frost each cupcake.

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Cupcakes

Butter

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Butter Knife

Spatula

Break the pretzels in half, and insert into the top of each cupcake for antlers. Use blue candy covered chocolates to make eyes.

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Pretzels

Cupcakes

Candy

Cut fruit by the foot to make a mouth and place the red gumdrop in the center for the nose.

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Gum Drops

Fruit

With a hand mixer, beat the egg whites with the lemon juice or extract until frothy.

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Lemon Juice

Egg Whites

Extract

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Hand Mixer

Add the sifted powdered sugar and beat on low speed until combined, smooth, and shiny. Turn to high and beat approximately 5 minutes until stiff and glossy.

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Powdered Sugar