REINDEER CUPCAKES RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin or line cups with paper liners.
• Combine 9 tablespoons butter, white sugar, and vanilla extract in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Add eggs one at a time and beat until well combined. Fold in half the flour and 1/4 cup milk and stir to combine. Repeat with remaining flour and milk. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 18 minutes.
• Remove tin from oven and cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Remove cupcakes from the tin and cool completely on a wire rack before decorating, about 1 hour.
• Combine confections' sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, and 1 tablespoon milk in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Thin frosting with a little milk or water, if necessary. Add food coloring and stir until frosting is uniformly brown. Add more food coloring, 1 drop at a time, until frosting is the color you like.
• Spread a thin layer of frosting on top of each cupcake. Break vanilla cookies in half. Place a cookie half on each cupcake as a mouth. Use a bit of frosting to "glue" a jelly bean onto the cookie for Rudolph's red nose. Stick 2 candy eyeballs into each cupcake. Break off a piece from each pretzel so they look like antlers and stick 2 into the top of each cupcakes. Shape chewy candies into ears and stick 2 into the sides of each cupcake.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Line 24 muffin cups with paper baking cups. In large bowl, combine cake mix, water, oil and eggs; beat at low speed until moistened. Beat 2 minutes at medium speed. Divide batter evenly into paper-lined cups. Place ice cream cone upside down over batter in each cup.
• Bake at 350°F. for 17 to 23 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. (Lift 1 cone to test cake.) Cool in pan 5 minutes. Carefully remove cupcakes from pan; place on wire racks. Cool 20 minutes or until completely cooled.
• Invert cupcakes with cones so cones stand upright; carefully remove paper baking cups. In medium bowl, combine vanilla and chocolate frostings; mix well. Reserve 1/4 cup frosting. Frost cupcakes with remaining frosting.
• To make a reindeer on each cupcake, insert 2 pretzels for antlers and 2 brown candy pieces for eyes. Dip 1 "any color" candy piece in reserved 1/4 cup frosting to cover; place on face for base of nose. Top with 1 red candy piece to complete nose.