Christmas Cupcakes

Merry Christmas everyone! This short post is mainly for Christmas cupcake decoration ideas, but it will also include a recipe for chocolate buttercream! All the major decorations were made out of marshmallow fondant (my recipe can be found here).

I won't lie, making the mistletoe leaves was a pain in the butt. If you have a cutter in that shape things will go much faster! I had to hand shape them because they were too small to try and hand cut. Once I had a system down though it wasn't so bad.

The tree cupcakes were very simple! A swirl of caramel frosting, fondant star on top (I had a star cutter :D so that was easy to do!) and then colorful round sprinkles! Voila!

Below is the chocolate frosting recipe. In case you were wondering about the recipe for the cake portion or the caramel frosting just follow these links:
Hot Fudge Cupcakes
Caramel Frosting (I just used food coloring to dye it green for the trees)

Merry Christmas everyone! 

chocolate buttercream frosting

Makes 3 3/4 cups
{recipe from food.com}

Ingredients

• 6 tablespoons butter, softened
• 2 2/3 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions 

1. Place butter in bowl and beat until creamy. 
2. Add powder sugar and cocoa powder; mix well.
3. Gradually add milk, mixing after each addition.
4. Add vanilla and mix until smooth.