Figgy Pudding Christmas Cupcakes

A round plate with seven cupcakes decorated to look like figgy puddings.

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Chocolate Christmas Cupcakes decorated to look like Figgy Puddings.

Cook Time30

Total Time30

Course: Baking

Cuisine: New Zealand

Keyword: Christmas Cupcakes, Christmas Pudding Cupcakes, Figgy Pudding Cupcakes

Servings: cupcakes

Calories: 303kcal

Author: Stacey

Ingredients

12 chocolate cupcakes
1 cup chocolate buttercream
½ cup cream cheese frosting
12 jaffas or red m&ms
18 spearmint leaves

Instructions

Ice each of the cupcakes with chocolate buttercream
Spoon a dollop of the cream cheese frosting on top to look a little like a Christmas pudding
Decorate with 1 Jaffa (or red ball-shaped sweet) and 1-2 spearmint leaves
Enjoy!

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Notes

Instead of decorating the Christmas cupcakes before serving, set up a decorating table and people can make their very own chocolate figgy puddings. Kids will love it
Make sure the cupcakes are completely cool before attempting to decorate them
Chocolate cupcakes: I use chocolate cupcakes but you could use any flavour vanilla cupcakes recipe or dairy-free cupcake recipe. I used a gluten-free boxed cake mix portioned into cupcake liners.
Candies: I use sweets to create an edible sprig of holly. Jaffas are a New Zealand candy (candy-coated orange chocolate balls), you need a red ball-shaped candy that will act as the berries of the holly. Red cinnamon candy like red hots would also work. Spearmint leaves are leaf-shaped gummy sweets popular in New Zealand.

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