Snowman Cupcakes

"From a cookbook entitled "Treasury of Christmas". This is a great family baking project, no matter the age. My family had a lot of fun with these."
 
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Ready In:
2hrs 18mins
Ingredients:
9
Serves:
15
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ingredients

  • 524.46 g package yellow cake mix or 524.46 g package white cake mix
  • 2 (907.18 g) container vanilla frosting
  • 946.36 ml flaked coconut
  • 15 large marshmallows
  • 15 reese miniature peanut butter cups
  • 30 small pretzel sticks (for arms)
  • 45 small red-hot candies (for buttons)
  • green decorating gel (for eyes)
  • red decorating gel (for nose)
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directions

  • Preheat the oven to 350°F.
  • Line 15 regular sized muffin cups and 15 miniature muffin cups with paper liners.
  • Prepare cake mix according to package directions.
  • Fill muffins cups approximately 1/2 full.
  • Bake mini muffins about 12 minutes and bake regular muffins about 18 minutes, OR until they test done when inserting a toothpick into the center.
  • Cool in pans 10 minutes.
  • Remove from pans and place on wire racks to cool completely.
  • Remove paper liners after they are cooled.
  • For each snowman:

  • Placing the regular size snowman upside down on your tray, frost the bottom (now the top) and sides of the cupcake and coat with coconut.
  • Repeat with miniature cupcake (also placing upside down).
  • Attach mini cupcake to regular sized cupcake with a dab of frosting to make the snowman body.
  • Attach a marshmallow to mini cupcake with a dab of frosting to form snowman head.
  • Attach upside down Reese's cup to marshmallow with a dab of frosting to form snowman hat.
  • Make arms from the pretzels and place red-hot"buttons" down the front of the snowman.
  • Pipe on eyes and nose with the decorating gels.
  • Repeat with the remaining cupcakes.
  • Makes 15 snowmen.

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