Christmas Cupcakes Recipe | #ratingval# from #reviews# reviews | |
Prep time: 15 Mins
Cook time: 18 Mins
Yields: 15 Cupcakes
It's Christmastime and what better time than now to make these cute Santa Claus cupcakes! The base for this Christmas cupcake is a very easy recipe too. Just uses two ingredients to make this recipe. Yes you heard it right. Just 2 ingredients to make these airy, feather light cupcakes.
- 1 package white cake mix (regular size)
- 1 and 1/2 cups Any lime/lemon flavored soda (I used Mountain Dew)
- As Needed Red and Green food coloring
- Preheat oven at 350F/180C. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners and lightly grease it with non-stick cooking spray.
- In a large bowl beat together the cake mix and soda. Beat for about a minute and a half. Divide the batter into 3 portions. Mix in red food coloring in portion, green in one portion and leave the other one as it is for white color.
- Fill each cup with a tablespoon of batter of each color. Each muffin cup should be about 2/3rds full. Bake it for about 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Cool the cupcakes in the pan for at least 10 minutes before removing it out of the pan. Let the cupcakes cool completely before you can frost it.
- I felt that the cupcakes were too light, tender that it might not hold it's shape if it is baked as a cake and you intend to slice it, make shapes out of it etc. For cupcakes it should not be a very big problem because you are not going to slice it. Actually even for that a few of the cupcakes were sort of lightly crumbly. I'm guessing it is because of the soda. The next time I follow this recipe I'm going to try reducing the quantity of soda and see if it's better, especially for making cakes.
- The above recipe is for 1 pack. I used 2 packs of white cake mix to make 24 regular size cupcakes. I was able to get additional 12 mini cupcakes for the remaining batter.
- I did not have the proper red food color so it looked more like pink than red once the cupcakes were baked.
- For the Santa Claus decoration idea: I used store bought icing to frost the cupcakes. But if you want to make you own you can try this Vegan Buttercream frosting or vegan cream cheese frosting.