These festive cupcakes couldn’t be any cuter! One chew of those magical Mickey Christmas Cupcakes and also you’ll really feel such as you’re strolling down Principal Road in the direction of your favourite fort.
These moist darkish chocolate cupcakes are topped with peppermint swirl frosting and Christmas Oreo “Mickey ears.” There’s one thing so incredible about Oreos sitting in frosting in a single day. They get so delicate – like cake! You possibly can eat the cupcakes immediately however in my view, they’re even higher the following day when the Oreos have softened into little Oreo muffins. Yum!
Now, I did a flowery swirled peppermint frosting however you could possibly in fact maintain the frosting white and perhaps add some crushed peppermint on high in the event you choose.
Mickey Christmas Cupcakes
24 cupcakes
For the cupcakes:
2 cups sugar
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup darkish cocoa powder (I take advantage of Hershey’s Particular Darkish)
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup 1% milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup boiling water
Peppermint frosting, recipe follows
48 Christmas Oreos
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line two muffin cup pans with cupcake liners and spray every with non-stick spray.
- Mix sugar, flour, darkish cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt in giant mixing bowl. Add eggs one by one and blend till integrated. Add milk, oil and vanilla abruptly and beat on medium velocity of mixer about two minutes. Stir within the boiling water. Fill cupcake liners about 2/3 full.
- Bake 20 to 25 minutes or till picket decide inserted in heart comes out clear. Cool 10 minutes; take away from pans to wire racks. Cool utterly.
- Make peppermint frosting (see under) and, if desired, tint half crimson. Set a chunk of cling wrap on the counter and unfold the frosting on the cling wrap side-by-side as proven within the images above. Roll up like a tube and put the entire tube inside a big pastry bag fitted with a star tip. Frost as you usually would, then instantly stick Christmas Oreos into the edges of the frosting for Mickey ears.
Peppermint Frosting
6 cups powdered sugar, sifted
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1.4 tsp peppermint extract
4 Tbsp milk
- Cream collectively 2 cups powdered sugar and 1 stick softened butter with an electrical mixer.
- Beat in two extra cups of powdered sugar and a couple of Tbsp milk, then second stick of butter, remaining two cups of powdered sugar, peppermint extract, and final 2 Tbsp milk. Beat till clean. Add further milk or powdered sugar if wanted for desired consistency.
Blissful swirling,
