Christmas Cupcakes - Easy Chocolate Reindeer

7 reindeer cupcakes on a small wooden tray.

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Christmas Cupcakes - Easy Chocolate Reindeer

These easy chocolate reindeer cupcakes are the perfect Christmas Baking idea to get the kids involved in

Prep Time15

Cook Time15

Total Time30

Course: Baking

Cuisine: New Zealand

Keyword: Reindeer cupcakes, Christmas Cupcakes, Rudolph Cupcakes

Servings: Cupcakes

Calories: 249kcal

Author: Stacey

Ingredients

12 chocolate cupcakes
12 jaffas Candy coated orange chocolate balls
24 large white chocolate buttons
24 small milk chocolate drops
12 pretzels
1 cup chocolate buttercream

Instructions

Use the chocolate buttercream to ice the top of each cupcake, you want a relatively thick layer.
Place a jaffa in the centre of the chocolate frosting, this is Rudoph's nose
Now the eyes, place two white chocolate buttons just above the red nose.
Take a chocolate drop, dip it into the chocolate frosting and pop it on the white chocolate button, voila, you have eyes!
Take a pretzel, and snap it in half, these will be the Reindeer antlers, place them in antler appropriate position, i.e one on either side at the top of the cupcake.

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Notes

Don't worry about perfection let your kids have fun!
Make sure the cupcakes are completely cool before attempting to decorate them
Chocolate cupcakes: You can use any cupcakes, homemade, store-bought or a boxed cake mix. You can also of course bake my vanilla cupcake recipe or dairy-free cupcake recipe
Jaffas or red M&M's: Jaffas are a kiwi candy (candy-coated orange chocolate balls), you need a red ball-shaped candy that will act as Rudolph's nose.
Chocolate buttercream: Any chocolate icing or frosting is fine, even store-bought, you just need it to be brown.
Chocolate buttons and drops: I use the white chocolate buttons and dark chocolate drops to make eyes for the reindeer, you could of course use candy eyes instead.

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