Easy Christmas Cupcakes
The delicious red, green and white Buttercream frosting on our Easy Christmas Cupcakes will make these festive holiday treats a stand out at any party.
Our Easy Christmas Cupcakes are gorgeous and delicious and perfect for the Holidays and nobody needs to know how easy they are to make. Topped with our delicious Buttercream Frosting in beautiful Christmas colors these cupcakes are perfect for a holiday party, a school party, or your family Christmas dessert table.
Ingredients You Will Need
How to Make the Cupcakes
Step 1: Make a batch of cupcakes. You can use a cake box mix, we have all the instructions you’ll need to make them taste just like homemade right here. Or you can make them from scratch with our yummy Homemade Chocolate Cupcakes recipe. We used chocolate cupcakes but Vanilla Cupcakes would taste great too.
How to Make the Frosting
Step 2: The key to these delicious cupcakes is our Best Buttercream Frosting recipe. It is light and creamy and buttery and super delicious! You will find the recipe and directions here. One batch of frosting will be enough to frost 12 cupcakes. If you used a boxed cake mix, you should have about 18 cupcakes and will need to double the frosting recipe. Once you have the frosting made, split it into three portions. Because the three layers of the frosting swirl are not all the same size we portioned our single batch of frosting as follows:
Red: 1 cup
Green: 3/4 cups
White: 1/2 cup
How to Color the Frosting
Now it is time to tint the frosting. We like the Wilton Color Right Food Coloring. It is concentrated and you can get a bright color without having to use too much food coloring. Here are the formulas we used for our Christmas frosting colors:
To create the three Christmas shades of Christmas Red and Christmas Green we used Wilton Color Right Food coloring in the following amounts:
- Red – 10 drops of Red and 4 drops of Crimson
- Green –8 drops of Yellow and 3 drops of Blue
Putting It All Together
Step 4: Load the three colors of frosting into separate decorating bags with a Wilton 1M Open Star Decorating Tip and gather up your cupcakes!
Step 5: For each cupcake, you will make three swirls of the frosting. The red on the bottom then green, and finally white.
Step 6: With the decorating bag and the 1M tip, make one and a half circles of red frosting around the edge of the cupcake.
Step 7: Next apply another 1 1/2 circles of green frosting but this circle should be a little smaller than the red frosting layer as shown in the picture above.
Step 8: Finally, with the white frosting, add a third circle but this time finish with an upward flourish so that the swirl ends in a peak at the top.
You can watch a video of how to make a frosting swirl like this in our How to Frost Cupcakes post.
Expert Tips and FAQ’s
Ideally, you should make the cupcakes the day before the party. You can store them in the refrigerator but remember to take them out a couple of hours before you are going to serve them because a cold cupcake is not a good cupcake. If you are short on time, you could make the cupcakes further ahead and freeze them until the day before the party and then defrost them and frost them the day before the party.
No. They will be fine left out at room temperature. Day one and two, they will taste great. On day three, the frosting will start to be hard on the outside and the cupcakes will start to get a little bit stale but they will still taste fine. After day four … the cupcakes will be stale. You can get another day or two out of them by storing them in the refrigerator.
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Easy Christmas Cupcakes
The delicious red, green and white Buttercream frosting on our Christmas Swirl Cupcakes will make these festive holiday treats a stand out at any party.
Ingredients
- 1 box Chocolate Cake Mix
- 1-2 batches of our The Best Buttercream Frosting
- Wilton Color Right Food Coloring - Red, Crimson, Yellow, Blue
- Wilton 1M Frosting tips and decorating bags
Instructions
- Make a batch of cupcakes. You can use a cake box mix, we have all the instructions you’ll need to make them taste just like homemade right here. Or you can make them from scratch with our yummy Homemade Chocolate Cupcakes recipe. We used chocolate cupcakes but Vanilla Cupcakes would taste great too.
- The key to these delicious cupcakes is our Best Buttercream Frosting recipe. It is light and creamy and buttery and super delicious! You will find the recipe and directions here. One batch of frosting will be enough to frost 12 cupcakes. If you used a boxed cake mix, you should have about 18 cupcakes and will need to double the frosting recipe. Once you have the frosting made, split it into four portions. Because the four layers of the frosting swirl are not all the same size we portioned our single batch of frosting as follows: Red: 1 cup Green: 3/4 cup White: 1/2 cup.
- Now it is time to tint the frosting. We like the Wilton Color Right Food Coloring. It is concentrated and you can get a bright color without having to use too much food coloring. Here are the formulas we used for our Christmas frosting colors: Red – 10 drops of Red and 4 drops of Crimson and Green –8 drops of Yellow and 3 drops of Blue.
- Load the three colors of frosting into separate decorating bags with a Wilton 1M Open Star Decorating Tip and gather up your cupcakes!
- For each cupcake, you will make three swirls of the frosting. The red on the bottom then green, and finally white.
- With the decorating bag and the 1M tip, make one and a half circles of red frosting around the edge of the cupcake.
- Next, apply another 1 1/2 circles of green frosting but this circle should be a little smaller than the red frosting layer as shown in the picture above.
- Finally, with the white frosting, add a third circle but this time finish with an upward flourish so that the swirl ends in a peak at the top.
Did you Make this Recipe? Leave a review below, then snap a picture and tag @twosisterscrafting on Instagram so we can see it!
