Holiday parties are coming and why not create the cutest Reindeer Cupcakes your friends have ever seen? See how easy these holiday cupcakes are to make and how quickly you can put them together.
This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support.
Christmas Eve is happening at my house this year. I know some people do a thing on either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. I love to be lazy on Christmas Day so I get everything done for the night before in advance to save me a headache. These Reindeer Cupcakes are so easy that you can add them to your list and actually complete them before the lazy day.
You can always buy a cake mix for your cupcakes but I love to go to my local bakery or even the grocery store bakery and grab a dozen premade ones. Go ahead and ask for some chocolate frosting too while you’re there and make these even easier.
Supplies for your Christmas Reindeer Cupcakes
- Dozen Cupcakes
- Cocoa Powder
- Butter
- Icing Sugar
- Pretzels
- Candy Eyes
- Red Decorating Gel or Red Hots
Cream together your butter, icing sugar and cocoa powder until it is smooth and fluffy. A Kitchen-Aid stand mixer is perfect for jobs like this but a hand-held electric mixer works great too. 
How to assemble your Holiday Cupcakes
After you’ve creamed your butter and sugar, place a piping bag or Ziploc into an empty cup and drape the bag over the rim. Use a spatula to add your frosting into the bag and then take it out of the cup to squeeze out any air.
I like to use this piping tip to create texture in my reindeer cupcakes face. The tip I’ve used is a Wilton Open Star Tip #8B. Add your candy eyes and then use your Red Hots or red decorating icing as the nose. Ta-Da! Your Reindeer holiday cupcakes are complete. Aren’t they the cutest? 
Make Santa's reindeer their own cupcakes for Christmas Eve. These Reindeer Cupcakes are so festive for any holiday party.
- 12 of your favorite chocolate cupcakes
- 1 stick butter softened
- 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1 tbsp cocoa
- 3-4 tbsp milk
- 24 pretzels
- 24 googly candy eyes
- Red decorating frosting or Red Hots
- Once your cupcakes are out of the oven, ensure you cool them completely on a wire rack before decorating.
- In an electric stand mixer, beat together butter, sugar, cocoa and milk on medium speed, gradually increasing it to high.
Once the ingredients are mixed, smooth, and form stiff peaks, your buttercream is ready. Frost each cupcake with a frosting bag.
Add two pretzels on each cupcake: these will be your reindeer’s “antlers.”
- Add candy eyes and dot a nose with your red decorating frosting. Enjoy and happy holidays!
Supplies for your custom Santa Claus Cupcakes
j uyrfddd
This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support.
Line a baking sheet with some parchment or wax paper and begin forming your ghosts. Use 1″ spheres and then form them into an oval shape. On one end you will form a point like it’s the ghosts tail.
Now, start making your buttercream icing. Just use your room-temperature butter, icing sugar, milk and whip it until it is fluffy. Mix in your yellow and red gel food coloring to create the orange you’re looking for.
This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support.
Another cupcake to add to our Halloween Cupcakes! Here we’re making Halloween tombstone cupcakes and they’re adorable. I used lady fingers in my recipe but you can easily use some Milano cookies because they’re also the perfect shape for Halloween tombstones.
Supplies for Halloween Tombstone Cupcakes
Next, you’re going to turn your ladyfinger cookies into the Halloween tombstone. Break the cookies in half and set aside on some parchment paper.
Happy Halloween!
This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support.
Start by creating your edible vampire fangs by taking some white fondant and roll it into 1/2″ spheres. Next, shape them into ovals and pinch one end to create it into a point like the picture below. 
Set the fangs aside to dry and then make your frosting by adding the purple gel food coloring into the white icing. Frost your cupcakes with either a piping bag or just a knife. 
Take the red gel food coloring and dip a toothpick inside. Slop some of the red coloring on the fondant vampire fangs and then place them on top of the cupcake as decoration.
This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support.
Cut up some marshmallows into smaller pieces. You could use mini marshmallows here but I think that it doesn’t give you the dimension that you’d want. Frost each cupcake with a small amount of buttercream and then add your marshmallows on top.
Place eyes randomly on each Halloween monster cupcake and serve. 
This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support. 
At this point, prepare your icing with the butter, icing sugar, milk, vanilla and violet food coloring and whip it until it is smooth. Pipe your icing on top of the cooled cupcakes.
Add your ‘smile’ using the black decorating icing and then place them on top of your iced cupcake.
This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support.
How to make Halloween Mummy Cupcakes
In a microwave-safe bowl, melt the candy melts and coconut oil in 30 seconds intervals until it is completely melted. I like to add some extra chips after I’ve melted them in to microwave to give them a tempering.
After you’ve mixed your buttercream, pipe it onto your cupcakes and add your Mummy on top to make the perfect spooky Halloween cupcakes.
