These Christmas Snowman Cupcakes have the perfect balance of flavors and textures and have a cute little look that make them a total winner to make and serve at your next Christmas party.
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Why You’ll Love These Snowman Cupckaes
- Simple Ingredients: The beauty of this snowman cupcakes recipe lies in its simplicity. With common ingredients that are easy to find in any kitchen, these cupcakes are a breeze to make.
- Fun Family Activity: Decorating these cupcakes is a fun activity for the whole family. From making fondant snowmen to adding scarves and hats, everyone can join in to create their own unique snowman friend.
- Deliciously Moist: These cupcakes are not just visually appealing; they taste heavenly too. The recipe guarantees moist and fluffy cupcakes, ideal for sweet decorations. A delightful treat for both the eyes and taste buds.
Recipe Ingredients
Ingredients For Decoration
- Sweet Straws: Act as the stick arms of your snowman, adding a whimsical and sweet touch to your cupcakes.
- Marshmallow: Serve as the body of your snowman, providing a fluffy, sweet, and visually appealing element.
- Colored Candies: Are used to create the eyes, nose, and buttons of your snowman, adding fun pops of color and sweetness.
- Jam: Can be used for additional decoration or flavoring, offering a fruity contrast to the other ingredients.
- Food Colorings: Can be used to tint icing or other elements of your cupcakes, allowing for creative customization.
Ingredients For Cream:
- Curd Cheese: Contributes to the creaminess and tanginess of your cream filling, enhancing the overall richness of your cupcakes.
- Marshmallow: When melted into the cream, it adds a delightful sweetness and lightness to your snowman cupcakes.
- Milk: Thins out your cream to the right consistency, ensuring it’s easy to work with.
- Heavy Cream: Is whipped into the cream filling to add richness and help achieve a fluffy texture.
Ingredients For Dough:
- Powdered Sugar: Sweetens your cupcake dough, while also helping to create a light and tender crumb.
- Vegetable Oil: Keeps your cupcakes moist and helps to extend their freshness.
- Egg: Acts as a binding ingredient in your dough, ensuring all the ingredients mix together properly.
- Vanilla Extract: Adds a hint of warm, aromatic flavor that enhances the taste of your cupcakes.
- Flour: Is the main structural ingredient in your cupcakes, providing the necessary gluten for them to hold their shape.
- Baking Soda: Acts as a leavening agent, causing your cupcakes to rise and become fluffy.
- Yogurt: Adds moisture to your dough, ensuring your cupcakes are soft and tender.
How To Make Snowman Cupcakes?
Step One: Prepare all ingredients. Mix all dry ingredients for the dough.
Step Two: In paper cupcake liners, put some dough, a little jam and dough again. Bake in a preheated oven at 190 degrees for about 20 minutes. Cool down.
Step Three: Dissolve the marshmallows in hot milk and cool down.
Step Four: Add whipped cream with curd cheese and whisk everything. Put the white frosting on your delicious cupcakes (You can optionally use piping bag).
Step Five: On marshmallows, paint the faces of the snowmen with food coloring.
Five Six: Put snowman faces on cupcakes. Add sticks – hands and sweets – buttons. Your snowman cupcakes are ready to serve. Enjoy!
Expert Tips For Making These Christmas Cupcakes
- Quick Start with Cake Mix: If you want to cut down the cooking time for this recipe, you can start off by simply using some cake mix instead of scratch-making the cupcakes. I would recommend using white cake mix, but if you really love the chocolate flavor, you can also choose to use chocolate cake mix instead.
- Frosting Choices: You can also choose to use your classic vanilla frosting or vanilla buttercream frosting to frost the cupcakes instead of making it from scratch.
- Buttery Flavor Boost: To lend some extra flavor and richness to these vanilla cupcakes, you can add some unsalted butter to the cake batter as well.
- Cool Before Frosting: Remember to frost cupcakes after they have reached room temperature. Once you let the cupcakes cool completely, they’ll hold on to the frosting better.
Optional Coloring
- Orange Food Coloring: Can be used as an optional ingredient for the snowman cupcakes, particularly for adding a vibrant touch to the marshmallow or cream to create carrot-nose details. It enhances the visual appeal and brings a more joyful, festive look to each cupcake.
Substitutions
- Baking Powder: Don’t have the soda? You can use some baking powder instead to help the snowmen cupcakes rise and get fluffy.
How To Store These Cupcakes
- Refrigerate: If you have leftover snowman cupcakes, transfer them to an airtight container and refrigerate them for up to 3 days.
What To Serve With Snowman Cupcakes?
Serve these delicious snowmen cupcakes with Hot Chocolate or a Mangonada drink. Be sure to check out these delicious Christmas Breakfast Pancakes too, as a fun Christmas treat.
FAQ’S
How Else Can I Decorate the Snowman Cupcakes?
If you don’t have the sweet straws the recipe calls for, you can also choose to use pretzel sticks instead.
You can also add some cocoa powder and mini chocolate chips to the cupcake batter and top it with some black frosting or black icing to bring a bit of a variation to these melting snowman cupcakes.
I’ve used food coloring to draw the eyes and nose for the snowmen, but you can also use a carrot nose and some edible eyes to make the snowman’s eyes. This can be great to use as the snowman’s buttons.
Christmas Snowman Cupcakes
Bring some winter magic to your dessert table with these adorable Snowman Cupcakes! Fluffy cupcakes are topped with creamy frosting and decorated to look like jolly snowmen.
Serving Size 8 Servings
Ingredients
Snowman Ingredients
- 10 Sweet Straws
- 8 Marshmallow
- 16 Colored candies
- 4 tbsp Jam
- Food Coloring
Cream Mixture
- 250 G Curd Cheese
- 150g Marshmallow
- 90 ml Milk
- 75 ml Heavy Cream
For The Cake Mix
- 200 g Powdered Sugar
- 200 ml Vegetable Oil
- 2 Eggs
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 200g Flour
- 1/2 tsp Soda
- 150 mls Yogurt
Instructions
- Prepare all ingredients. Mix all dry ingredients for the dough.
- Beat all the remaining ingredients for the dough and add to the dry ones. Knead the dough on medium-high speed using a stand mixer.
- In paper cupcake liners, put some dough, a little jam and dough again. Bake in a preheated oven at 190 degrees for about 20 minutes. Cool down.
- Marshmallows dissolve in hot milk. Cool down.
- Add whipped cream with curd cheese and whisk everything. Put the white frosting on your delicious cupcakes (You can optionally use piping bag).
- On marshmallows, paint the faces of the snowmen with food coloring.
- Put snowman faces on cupcakes. Add sticks – hands and sweets – buttons. Your snowman cupcakes are ready to serve. Enjoy!
Nutrition
Calories: 418kcal | Carbohydrates: 45g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 14g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 42mg | Sodium: 22mg | Potassium: 65mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 25g | Vitamin A: 60IU | Calcium: 28mg | Iron: 1mg
Notes
Quick Start with Cake Mix: If you want to cut down the cooking time for this recipe, you can start off by simply using some cake mix instead of scratch-making the cupcakes. I would recommend using white cake mix, but if you really love the chocolate flavor, you can also choose to use chocolate cake mix instead.
Frosting Choices: You can also choose to use your classic vanilla frosting or vanilla buttercream frosting to frost the cupcakes instead of making it from scratch.
Buttery Flavor Boost: To lend some extra flavor and richness to these vanilla cupcakes, you can add some unsalted butter to the cake batter as well.
Cool Before Frosting: Remember to frost cupcakes after they have reached room temperature. Once you let the cupcakes cool completely, they’ll hold on to the frosting better.
Baking Powder Alternative: Don’t have the soda? You can use some baking powder instead to help the snowmen cupcakes rise and get fluffy.
