Description
These festive Santa Hat Cupcakes are a delightful and easy-to-make holiday treat, featuring your favorite cupcake flavor topped with bright red frosting shaped like a Santa hat and adorned with halved mini marshmallows for a fun, snow-like effect.
Ingredients
Scale
Cupcakes
- 12 cupcakes, any flavor (white or chocolate recommended for best appearance)
Frosting
- Red frosting, enough to generously frost 12 cupcakes
Decorations
- Mini marshmallows, cut in half (quantity enough to decorate 12 cupcakes, approximately 48 halves)
- Wilton decorating tip #32 (optional, or any regular piping tip)
- Disposable frosting bag
Instructions
- Prepare Marshmallows: Pre-cut mini marshmallows in half lengthwise and set aside so you have them ready for decorating without interruption.
- Prepare Frosting Bag: Attach the Wilton decorating tip #32 (or a regular piping tip) to the disposable frosting bag and fill it with the red frosting.
- Create Frosting Base: Pipe a circle base of red frosting on the top of each cupcake to form the brim of the Santa hat.
- Add Marshmallow Brim: Place the halved mini marshmallows standing upright around the frosting circle to form the fluffy white brim of the hat.
- Build the Hat: Fill the inside of the circle with red frosting, then pipe concentric circles moving upward to create the cone shape of the Santa hat.
- Top with Marshmallow: Finish by placing one halved mini marshmallow at the peak of the frosting to mimic the pom-pom on Santa’s hat.
- Chill: Place the decorated cupcakes in the refrigerator for a few minutes to let the frosting set before serving.
Notes
- Cut all mini marshmallows beforehand for efficient decorating.
- If you don’t have a Wilton #32 tip, any regular piping tip will work as the frosting is simply piled to create the hat shape.
- Refrigerating the cupcakes briefly helps the frosting hold its shape longer.
- These cupcakes can be made with any flavor, but white or chocolate bases best enhance the red and white decoration contrast.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 250
- Sugar: 18g
- Sodium: 120mg
- Fat: 10g
- Saturated Fat: 3.5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 35g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 25mg
