Ingredients
Method
- Make any batch of cupcakes and a batch of buttercream frosting.
- Tint enough of the frosting flesh colored to frost all of the cupcakes. I used a little bit of peach color and a little bit of brown. I tinted about 1 1/2 cups of frosting. Frost the cupcakes.
- Tint about 3/4 cup of frosting red. Using a knife, frost about half of the top half of a cupcake red, like a swoosh. This is Santa's hat.
- With a star tip (#16) and white frosting in a decorating bag, line the edge of the hat with small stars.
- Where the mouth would go, make an arc for the mustache.
- Working in a half circle, draw down the lines of the beard.
- With pink pearl decorating candies, place Santa's nose.
- Using blue or green pearls, place Santa's eyes.
- Place a red jimmie in between the mustache and the beard for his mouth.
- Put a mini marshmallow at the end of the hat.
- With red sugar sprinkles, give Santa some rosy cheeks.
Notes
It really isn't hard to turn this into a mirror image with green instead of red and touches of brown instead of white to make little elf cupcakes.
These go great with Rudolph cupcakes. I make them together.
You'll need a decorating bag and a #16 star tip.