Festive Snowmen Cupcakes
- 1 box Cake Mix or Cake recipe and flavor of your choosing.
- 24 Silver Foil Cupcake Liners
- 1 1/4 cup white decorating sugar
- 24 Thin chocolate cookies (Famous Chocolate Wafers)
- 12 orange candy fruit slices
- 2 can 12 oz. fluffy vanilla frosting
- 1 Green food coloring
- 1/4 cup chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup mini Chocolate chips
- 1 large red sprinkles
- 1 small ziploc bag
- Make cake mix according to directions on the box.
- Place cake mix in silver foil cupcake liners, and bake them for the time directed on box.. Cook completely!
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- Place the white decorating sugar in a small shallow bowl.
- For the hats: using a serrated knife and angling it slightly inward from top to bottom, cut 1/4 inch from opposite sides of the chocolate cookies.
- Reserve 24 of the smaller cookie pieces for the hat brims.
- Tint 1/4 cup of the frosting with the green food coloring.
- Spoon the green frosting into a small ziplock bag, press out the excess air, and seal.
- Spread the remaining vanilla frosting on the top of the cupcakes, mounding it slightly.
- Roll the tops in the decorating sugar to cover completely.
- Press the base of an orange candy nose into the center of each cupcake.
- Add the large chocolate chips, pointed ends down, for the eyes.
- Add the mini chocolate chips, pointed ends down, as the mouth.
- Right before serving, use a small paring knife to cut a slit in each of the cupcakes parallel to the edge.
- Insert the large cookie piece, small end in.
- as the hat.. Add a smaller cookie piece cut edge down for the brim.
- Snip a small (1/8 in) corner from the bag with the green frosting and pipe a decorative edge along the crown of the hat or pipe a few holly leaves and add a couple of red sprinkles.
mix, cupcake liners, white decorating sugar, chocolate cookies, fluffy vanilla frosting, green food coloring, chocolate chips, chocolate chips, red sprinkles
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/367031-festive-snowmen-cupcakes (may not work)