Snowman Cupcakes

This Christmas, have fun with your kids and make these delicious cupcakes to give as gifts.
Ingredients
24
Servings
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 3/4 teaspoons salt
  • 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 4 eggs, large
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
  • 1 1/4 cups cow's milk
  • 1/2 cups unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 3 cups icing sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 1/3 cups whole milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  • 24 marshmallow, large whites
  • 48 pretzel sticks
  • 1 fruit roll-ups
Preparation
1h 30 mins
0 mins
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  • Preheat the oven to 350 ºF or 176ºC. Place cupcake liners in 2 twelve-cup muffin pans.
  • In a medium bowl, add the flour, baking powder, and salt.
  • In a large bowl, mix the butter and sugar until fluffy and light. Add the eggs one at a time until incorporated into the mixture, then add the vanilla. Make sure all the mixture on the sides is incorporated. You can use an electric mixer.
  • Once you have a creamy mixture, add the flour mixture and the milk alternately, starting and ending with the flour mixture. Make sure all the ingredients are perfectly incorporated.
  • Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full. Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Rotate the pan if necessary (not before 20 minutes).
  • Let cool for 5 minutes and remove from the pans, then wait for them to cool completely.
  • To prepare the frosting: In a large bowl, beat the butter until smooth. It's easier if you use a mixer. Add the powdered sugar, salt, milk, and vanilla. Beat until smooth and creamy. Make sure the butter is very creamy before adding all the other ingredients.
  • With a spatula or a piping bag, add frosting on top of each cupcake.
  • Insert 2 pretzel sticks on each side, simulating arms.
  • With black and orange gel coloring, paint the snowman's face on a marshmallow.
  • To make the scarf, cut strips from the fruit roll-up (a candy); if you can't find this, you can use any other similar candy.
  • Place the marshmallow on top of the frosting, and the scarf around the neck.

Nutritional Information

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