These cute reindeer cupcakes for Christmas are delicious. You can get the kids to help you decorate for loads of family fun.
Ingredients
- unsalted butter, room temperature: 9 Tbsp
- white sugar: 0.75 cup
- vanilla extract: 1 tsp
- eggs: 2 piece
- ½ cups sifted self-rising flour: 1 piece
- milk: 0.5 cup
- confectioners' sugar: 1 cup
- unsalted butter, room temperature: 1 Tbsp
- milk: 1 Tbsp
- drop brown food coloring: 1 piece
- vanilla wafer cookies (such as Nilla®): 6 piece
- red jelly beans: 12 piece
- candy eyeballs: 24 piece
- chewy chocolate-flavored candy (such as Tootsie Roll®): 24 piece
- pretzels: 24 piece
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin or line cups with paper liners.
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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.
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Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 18 minutes.
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Remove the tin from the 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.
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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.
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Spread a thin layer of frosting on top of each cupcake. Break vanilla cookies in half. Place half a cookie 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 onto the top of each cupcake. Shape chewy candies into ears and stick 2 onto the sides of each cupcake. Magda