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Mini Cupcakes Recipe: Holiday Desserts

A treat for the holidays 

The holidays are soon upon us and whether you're doing a ton of holiday baking or just want to do something tasty and fun with the kiddos these mini cupcakes are great treat for the holiday season. holiday cupcakes

Let's face it almost everyone loves cupcakes and these bite-sized treats are a yummy addition to any gathering. Get the kiddos to make them with you and enjoy making and eating them together.

Yield: 12

Mini Cupcakes Recipe: Holiday Desserts

holiday cupcakes

These mini cupcakes make great holiday desserts for your Christmas or holiday party. Learn how to bake, frost and decorate!

Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Inactive Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 12 vanilla cupcakes, cooled down and ready for decorating
  • 4-5 oz. yellow fondant
  • Small star cookie cutter
  • Cornstarch for rolling
  • 1 ½ sticks butter, softened
  • 3 cups icing sugar
  • 4-5 tablespoon milk
  • ¼ teaspoon Kelly green gel food coloring

Instructions

Begin by creating your fondant stars. Lightly dust cornstarch on a clean working surface and on your rolling pin. Roll out fondant so that it’s about ¼ of an inch thick.
Use cookie cutter to cut out star shapes. You’ll need 12. Set aside on wax paper.
Make buttercream by beating butter, icing sugar and milk with an electric mixer on medium speed. Gradually increase the speed to high and beat until smooth and forms stiff peaks.
Add gel food coloring to buttercream and mix until completely colored.
With a piping bag, frost each cupcake. Add one fondant star to each cupcake and serve.

Notes

If you have other cookie cutter shapes you prefer to use go for it.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

12

Serving Size:

1 cupcake

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 198Total Fat: 8gCarbohydrates: 18gFiber: 0gSugar: 11g

Please note that we can not guarantee the accuracy of the nutritional information. They are a best guess calculation.

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By on December 8th, 2018

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I’m Michelle aka Powered by Mom. I’m married with one daughter, my hubby was my high school sweetheart, our two dogs Nyx and Cleo and our cat Oliver. As you can see we’re a family of animal lovers. We love to travel when we can, try different food and activities all over the world and enjoy being together. My passions are writing, travelling, creating new recipes, encouraging people to adopt not shop and just to enjoy life while we can.

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25 thoughts on “Mini Cupcakes Recipe: Holiday Desserts”

  1. I love these adorable holiday cupcakes! They're so festive! I'd like to make these for when my grandchildren visit my house on Christmas Eve.

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  2. These cupcakes are adorable, thank you so much for sharing this recipe! I love that you can customize them for any Holiday by changing the colors and decorations.

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  3. These cupcakes are beautiful. I love the colors, it makes them really pop. I can't wait to make some, you can change it to any color, I'm think something for Easter. Thanks, bunches for sharing. ????

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  4. Just love cupcakes here so festive for the holiday . I got to get better decorating them here . thanks for sharing

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  5. These cupcakes are super cute and I love that you topped them on with a little star. Thanks for sharing
    your recipe here with us.
    @tisonlyme143

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  6. These mini cupcakes are just too cute to save only for the holidays! I never thought of using fondant like this, and wow do I want to try this!

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  7. I like the minis since they are just the right size for a nice treat but not too much. These look so cute with the yellow star on top.

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  8. This recipe sounds so good for the holidays. They also sound fairly easy to make. We will give these a try. Thank you so much for sharing

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