Need a fun Homemade Christmas Cupcake? Try these White Chocolate Santa Hat Cupcakes!
Ingredients
Cupcake Ingredients:
• 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups white granulated sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ cup butter, softened
• ½ cup milk
• ½ cup sour cream
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 3 large egg
• 6 ounces of white baking chocolate
• Green and red food coloring
Frosting Ingredients
• 1 stick room temperature unsalted butter
• 4 cups confectioners’ sugar
• ¼ cup whole milk
• 1 tablespoon cocoa extract
• Red food color gel
Instructions
• Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, add flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
• Step 2: Whisk dry ingredients well.
• Step 3: Using a hand or stand mixer, cream together butter and vanilla until light and fluffy. Add in sour cream and mix on low speed for 1 minute. Add in milk and mix on medium for 1 minute.
• Step 4: On low, mix in eggs, one at a time.
• Step 5: Using the microwave, melt baking chocolate. Mix into the wet ingredients.
• Step 6: Fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.
• Step 7: Divide batter evenly between 3 small bowls. Add green food coloring to one, red food coloring to the other and leave the third bowl uncolored.
• Step 8: Line a 12-cup muffin pan with baking liners.
• Step 9: Using a spoon, add each color of batter into the muffin tin until abut ⅔ full. Bake for 15-17 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Directions for Frosting:
• Step 1: In a large mixing bowl or stand mixer, cream together butter and cocoa extract and beat until light and fluffy.
• Step 2: Slowly mix in the powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, while adding a bit of milk in between each cup. for 1 minute or until creamy.
• Step 3: Separate frosting into two bowls, adding red food coloring to one and leaving the other without color. Place into two separate piping bags. Pipe the red frosting in a swirl. Next take the piping bag with the white frosting and add a tip to the top of the red swirl. Then pipe small swirls around the base of the red swirl.
Recipe by Mom Does Reviews at https://www.momdoesreviews.com/2019/11/14/santa-hat-cupcakes/