The solution for Christmas dinner at school Santa Claus cupcakes. A nice idea for the Christmas days:making tasty Santa Claus cupcakes. These fun Santa Claus cupcakes are not difficult to make and will not only appeal to children. Prepare the cupcakes a day in advance, so that you don't have to worry about them on Christmas Day.
I made these Santa Claus cupcakes a few years ago for the students in my daughter's class. Recipe was previously on my other website which I have lifted. Although these were already somewhat older children aged 13-14, everyone was very enthusiastic about the cupcakes and they were very popular.
To make Santa Claus cupcakes you need cupcakes. In the recipe below I only explain how to make buttercream and decorate the cupcake. However, you can find countless recipes for making cupcakes on the internet. What I personally often do is make the recipe from a cake and instead of putting the batter in a cake tin, I use cupcake liners. Actually always succeeds.
So do you have chocolate, vanilla, strawberry or other cupcakes and you don't know what to do with them? Are you still looking for an eye-catcher for Christmas dinner at school? Then make these fun Santa Clauses. Bet all the kids will love the cupcakes. Do you think the cupcakes are too much work or do you want to involve your children in making something leather for Christmas dinner? Then make German Christmas cookies.
Cupcakes (flavour of your choice)
Butter cream/ icing
Food coloring red and black
Red wine gums
Piping bag
Come on
4.5 of 2 votes Print Santa Claus making cupcakes Preparation 30 min Dish:Dessert Servings:12 Author:anja Ingredients
Beat the butter until soft and creamy in about 10 minutes
Add the milk and the vanilla extract and beat it all well
Then slowly add the sifted icing sugar while continuing to mix. The longer you mix, the better. Assume that you have to mix the buttercream for at least 20 minutes.
Take about 1/3 of the buttercream, put it in a separate bowl and add one or two drops of red food coloring. The color should be light pink as that will be used as Santa's face
Cover all cupcakes with a thin layer of pink buttercream
Take about 2/3 of the remaining buttercream and transfer it to a piping bag with serrated edge
Now pipe 2/3 around the edge (beard and hair) and end with a dot (this will be the sphere of the Santa hat
Now spray a nice mustache
Place the red nose in the middle of the mustache
Set about a tablespoon of the white buttercream aside
Mix the remaining buttercream with enough red food color to spray the Santa hat with it. You do this spraying from left to right and you end up where the white dot is
The tablespoon of buttercream that you have set aside is colored with black (can be replaced by chocolate buttercream if necessary). This will make the eyes. This is best done with a toothpick on which you put a little bit of the mixture. It may take some practice, but once you get the hang of it, it's very easy.
Did you make these cupcakes? Let me know. A photo is of course even more fun.
