Day 23 - Winter Cupcakes

Today, I had my second cupcake decorating class. We focused on winter/holiday cupcakes: Christmas trees, ornaments, snowmen, and even hot chocolate (the ones with the candy cane bits). We also made two different cake pops: Santa hats & ornaments. My favorite cupcakes were the snowmen cupcakes that we made, but the hot chocolate cupcakes had the cutest idea. However, all of the cupcakes were very cute and I definitely would make them again. The cake pops, on the other hand, need a lot of work.

Here's the directions to make the snowman cupcake:

What you need per cupcake:

A cupcake
White frosting
Two chocolate chips
Five or six mini chocolate chips
One chocolate graham cracker
One orange slice gummy
Crystallized sugar to cover

What you do per cupcake:

Frost cupcake as smoothly as possible.
Press cupcake top into bowl of crystallized sugar.
Find the middle of the cupcake and place the large chocolate chips slightly above center line for eyes.
Cut out the nose from the orange gummy and insert slightly below eyes for nose. It can be any shape you want.
Using mini chocolate chips, make the snowman's smiling mouth.
Take half of a graham cracker (two of the little partitions), and cut out a rectangle shape and half of an oval very carefully and slowly with a serrated knife to avoid cracking.
To place graham on cupcake, take serrated knife and finding the line of the cupcake where the top of the cupcake and the liner meet. Very gently, slice at horizontal opening to the level of the snowman's eyes.
Insert rectangle into slot.
Using frosting, place frosting on flat edge of the half oval piece and place vertically on top of rectangle to complete to form the hat's brim.
Use any color frosting to decorate hat.

That is a snowman cupcake!

What I thought:

I really enjoyed this class and I'm sad that it's over. I'm looking forward to making some of these cupcakes for my family & friends. Hopefully, I will be taking another class in the spring.

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