Total cooking time: 45 minutes.
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees/gas mark 4
- Beat 110g of the butter and all of the caster sugar together until fluffy
- Whisk in the eggs
- Add the flour and stir until combined
- Place the cases in a cupcake tray
- Spoon the mixture evenly into the cases
- Bake for 15 minutes or until a skewer placed in the centre of each cake comes out clean
- Leave on a wire rack to cool
- Meanwhile, make the butter cream. Whisk the remaining butter until soft
- Add the icing sugar and cocoa powder and mix until smooth
- Once the cakes are cool, pipe the butter cream on top using a thick nozzle
- Chop each Fruit Bowl Strawberry Peeler into 6 so you have 12 pieces
- Push one of the Peeler pieces into the centre of the butter cream on each cake
- Take two pretzels and place on the top of the cupcake to make antlers
- Finally, place two of the edible eyes between the antlers and the peeler to create your Christmas reindeer!
Servings: 12
You will need:
- 2 packs (16g) Fruit Bowl Strawberry Peelers
- 260g butter
- 110g caster sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 110g self-raising flour
- 300g icing sugar
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- Edible eyes
- 24 pretzels
- 12 Christmas cupcake cases