Santa Hat Cupcakes are my Favorite Christmas cupcake! Use any flavor cupcake and color your frosting red and you will have the most beautiful Christmas cupcake ever!
Its being to look at lot like Christmas in the kitchen! This fun Santa hat cupcake is one that the kids are going to LOVE! These Santa hat cupcakes look like they took forever to make and a lot of skill, but they are are so easy to make.
Santa Hat Cupcakes
Everyone will love these Santa Hat Cupcakes not only because they are adorable but because they are made with homemade cupcakes and homemade frosting.
Easy Santa Hat Cupcake Recipe
When making Santa Hat cupcakes you are going to want to use your favorite cupcake flavors. Depending on my mood depends on what I use, but I normally use chocolate chip cupcakes, strawberry cupcakes, chocolate cupcakes or Bakery Style Vanilla Cupcakes. If you have a boxed cake mix you were wanting to use, try this awesome way to make a boxed cake mix taste homemade… it really gives you an amazing cupcake or cake!
For the frosting you want to use a frosting that you can color red. I like to use Marshmallow Buttercream, cream cheese frosting or my favorite The best Buttercream Recipe. Again which one you use depends on the mood you are in flavor wise.
You are going to want to make a cupcake frosting swirl, if you have never made a cupcake frosting swirl it is super easy to do! Check out the step by step directions for How to make a cupcake Frosting Swirl.
How to Make Santa Hat Cupcakes
Making these Santa hat cupcakes is so easy. All you need is homemade cupcakes cooled, red frosting, white frosting and a frosting piping bag.
Santa Hat Cupcake Supplies
- Large round pastry tip
- Star pastry tip
- 2 Pastry Bags
- White buttercream icing
- Red buttercream icing
- Cupcakes recipe
Santa Hat Cupcake Directions
First make a batch of your cupcakes and let them cool completely. You can pick whatever flavor for the cupcakes that you want to.
Next make a double batch of frosting. Pick from Marshmallow Buttercream, cream cheese frosting or favorite Vanilla Buttercream Recipe.
Split your frosting into 2 bowls once it is finished being made, putting 70% of the frosting in one bowl and 30% of the frosting in another.
Take the larger amount of frosting and color it red using food coloring. You can use either gel or liquid food coloring, whichever you prefer. I prefer the gel but it is all personal preference. Add food coloring and mix until you get a deep red color that is the same color as Santa’s hat.
Bring these Santa Hat Cupcakes to any party you are going to and everyone will love them! I find transporting them is easiest when I use a covered Cupcake Carrier.
Santa Hat Cupcakes
Ingredients
Vanilla Buttercream Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter
- 1 cup Shortening
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 2 pounds Confectioners sugar
- 1.5 tablespoons hot water
Vanilla Cupcake Ingredients
- 1.5 cups self-rising flour
- 1 1/4 cups cake flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 eggs eggs
Cupcake Ingredients
- Red Food Coloring
Instructions
Vanilla Buttercream directions
- In your mixer’s bowl mix butter and shortening.
- Once mixed add in the vanilla extract
- Then add in the confectioners sugar and mix it little bit little until the sugar is incorporated into the butter/shortening mixture.
- Add water and mix until everything is fully incorporated and your buttercream is nice and fluffy.
Cupcake Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line your cupcake pans with your choose of cupcake wrappers.
- Place your self-rising flour, cake flour, and sugar in the bowl of your mixer. Mix them together for a minute or two until they are well combined.
- Cut your butter into tablespoon pieces. Slowly add your butter into the flour mixture one piece at a time continue mixing until you have reached the texture of sand.
- Pour half of your milk into the flour mixture and mix just until the milk is incorporated. Use your rubber spatula to scrape down the sides of your bowl. Add your remaining milk and the vanilla to your batter and mix until combined.
- Slowly add in one egg at a time to the cake batter, making sure each egg is incorporated before adding the next egg.
- Scoop the batter into the prepared cupcake pan, filling them 3/4 of the way full.
- Bake for 10 minutes then rotate the cake pans so the pan that was on the top rack is now on the bottom and the pan that was on the bottom is now on the top rack. Continue to bake for another 10-13 minute until a toothpick comes out clean from the center of the cupcake.
- Transfer the cupcakes to a cooling rack until they have reached room temperature.
Santa hat Cupcakes Directions
- First make a batch of your cupcakes and let them cool completely. You can pick whatever flavor for the cupcakes that you want to.
- Next make a double batch of frosting. Pick from Marshmallow Buttercream, cream cheese frosting or favorite Vanilla Buttercream Recipe.
- Split your frosting into 2 bowls once it is finished being made, putting 70% of the frosting in one bowl and 30% of the frosting in another.
- Take the larger amount of frosting and color it red using food coloring. You can use either gel or liquid food coloring, whichever you prefer. I prefer the gel but it is all personal preference. Add food coloring and mix until you get a deep red color that is the same color as Santa's hat.
- Place your large round pastry tip in one pastry bag and fill it with the red buttercream. Using the pastry bag pipe a frosting swirl on top of your cupcake. Pipe a red frosting swirl on all cupcakes until they are all topped with red frosting, refilling the pastry bag as needed with your bowl of red frosting.
- Get your second pastry bag and place your star pastry tip in your pastry bag and fill it with the white frosting. Holding the pastry tip against the bottom of the red frosting press lightly on the pastry bag to pipe a small star of frosting. Continue around the base of the red frosting until the bottom is covered. Do this for each cupcake.
- Then using the white frosting and the star tip piping bag make a star at the top of the red frosting swirl to put a star on Santa's hat.
Nutrition
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How did you get it so red? Do you have a cream cheese icing that you like? I need to make a red cream cheese icing but I’m having a hard time getting it red like elmo.
Use a gel food coloring it will work better then the liquid 🙂
Did you actually make the red icing, because to get a good red you still need a lot of red gel coloring and then the icing has a bitter taste. I’ve been looking for a solution to the red icing issue.
There is a very red color but you also need to let it sit in the fridge for a day and it will eventually take the red color
use red red paste by wilton and at some rose pink to it. makes great red color
Debbie, Wilton makes a red no taste gel food color. I have used it before without any problems.
You can purchase red, black, blue and any other color icing from the grocery store bakery. They sold it to me by the lbs. Pricey but if you are doing something special it is worth it. Good luck. I got mine at Bilo.
There is also a red gel “no taste’ coloring that is made by Wilton and can be bought at Walmart.
When I made lighting McQueen red frosting by adding some cocoa powder to the base frosting then adding red gel frosting. It became a brighter red color. I think you can also start with using beet juice. At least you don’t have to start from white to get to the red color.
Check Wilson and see if they have a red frosting or coloring
Will you have a red mouth after eating? As an adult if I took them to a party I wouldn’t want everyone embarrassed
i cannot find the recipe ? just how-to-dos-videos. i just need the recipe for the chocolate dough it was insanely yummy. pleeeraseeer
I’ve read your recipe Santa hat cupcake. then I tried it make at our home, my family members and kids like this cake. this Christmas I will make Santa hat cupcake, everyone like this at Christmas.