Ingredients[]
- For Cupcakes
- For the frosting
- 1/3 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup cocoa
- 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Decorations
- 24 pretzel twists
- 12 red M&Ms
- 24 candy eyes
Instructions[]
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees, and line your cupcake pan with cupcake wrappers.
- Cream together butter and sugar.
- Beat in eggs.
- Add milk and vanilla
- Sift together flour and baking powder.
- Mix into wet ingredients.
- Fill cupcake liners 2/3 full, and bake for 20-25 minutes.
- Let the cupcakes cool.
- Beat the butter until fluffy.
- Add the cocoa and beat well.
- Alternately add milk and powdered sugar, beating well between each, until frosting is of spreading consistency
- Stir in vanilla.
- Frost the cupcakes.
- Use the pretzels as antlers, add the eyes and a red M&M nose.