This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase a product using this link, I earn a small commission at no extra charge to you. There is a point every year that the city goes around and puts up Christmas lights and decorations on the street lamps, and suddenly everything just feels cheerier. It’s crazy how some lights can change the entire atmosphere, but I swear it does. And with that holiday spirit comes the tradition of baked goods, holiday parties, feast, and dozens upon dozens of Christmas cookies. Never fear though! Here you will find a way to take a simple boxed cake mix and create three different cute holiday treats. Basic cupcake recipe: Our mission starts with your basic cupcake recipe. If you are feeling really motivated, feel free to use a scratch recipe, but I’m all about making life easy, so here we are going to get a little help from our friend Betty and use Betty Crocker Super Moist Milk Chocolate Cake Mix. I like this one in particular because it always turns out nice and fudgy inside, and the chocolate serves as a nice background for all three top decorations, but if you feel strongly about a vanilla or yellow cake feel free to experiment with those as well! Even though I start with a cake mix, there are always ways to make improvements. You will see in the recipe below that these are easy additions that just add a little extra to the cake, and make it seem a bit more homemade. I like to add an extra egg to give it a richer, thicker feel. I also replace the water with milk for more flavor. If you have baked any at all you have probably heard of the hack to replace the called for vegetable oil with melted butter. I used to swear by this technique as well, until I continued to run into cakes that were not quite as light and moist as I’d like. There is some science behind this one, so feel free to Google it if you want the details, but basically since butter is usually a solid and oil is a liquid, once it is baked into the cake, oil will remain more moist and light, while butter will return to a more dense, solid state. On the flip side, butter has a much richer flavor than the oil. My solution? I take the amount of oil called for on the box and do half oil and half melted butter (sometimes it isn’t a directly half and half split just to make the measurements easier). Best of both worlds. Recipe:
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer First up we have our friend Rudolph. You can’t get much more classic than the Red Nose Reindeer, so of course, we had to feature him somewhere in our holiday line up. Ingredients:
Forest of Little Christmas Trees Of the three varieties here, this is the most time consuming, though still incredibly easy. Luckily, with a little planning, these can be made ahead of time and assembled right before serving. Ingredients:
Frosty the Snowman
Another classic, we will finish off with dear old Frosty. It doesn’t get any easier than this one! Ingredients:
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AuthorDoctor by day, baker by night! When I'm not at my doctoring day job, I love to be in the kitchen with my family baking, cooking, decorating and, most importantly, eating ice cream. Archives
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