Mini Rudolph Cupcakes

What's more adorable than cupcakes? Mini cupcakes!

Keeping up with the Christmas cheer and nearing the holiday season, I decided to make these cute reindeer mini cupcakes. I used a vanilla cupcake recipe that TLS have tried and tested with normal sized cupcakes. They turn out perfectly with about 5 minutes less cooking time in the oven. The usual batch that makes about 12 normal sized cupcakes, made 24 mini ones and an additional 6 normal sized ones. So using my nerdy Mathis brain, every 1 normal sized cupcake makes 4 mini cupcakes!

Anyway back to Rudolph! I had fun breaking (and eating the remainder of) the pretzels to make the antlers. Peanut M&M's were used for the red noses. I had to hope and pray that there were enough red M&M's in the packet... But sadly there wasn't, and the rest of the reindeers had to be substituted with blue, yellow, orange and green noses.

For the icing I made home made ice chocolate, a simple brown background to create my reindeer faces. Next time I think a caramel icing would go well with the salty pretzels to make salted caramel!

If you would like some of these for your Christmas celebration, please drop an email or message to TLS. In the meantime, have a treat, you deserve it! :)

Win x