Did you know that Thursday, December 15, 2022 is National Cupcake Day? Who doesn’t like the fresh baked goodness of a Christmas-time cupcake? Well, we’ve got a perfect recipe to spice up your next holiday party, or just share with the family. Check out Saline River Chronicle’s Rudolph’s Red-Nose Velvet Cakes. You can make them from scratch, but we tend to just roll down to one of Warren’s local grocers and grab a good-ole cake mix right off the shelf. They taste just as yummy!
Rudolph’s Red Nose Velvet Cakes
Ingredients
Chocolate Cake:
- 1 box devil’s food cake mix
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 C. oil
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 C. milk or buttermilk
- 1/2 C. sour cream
Chocolate Frosting:
- 1 C. butter
- 1/3 C. unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2-3 C. powdered sugar
- 2 Tbsp. milk
Pretzles, for antlers
Nilla Wafers, for muzzles
Brown M&M’s for noses (some red for Rudolph) Feel free to make Santa’s entire Reindeer Team
White Mint M&M’s for eyes
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with cupcake liners.
- Sift cake mix into a small bowl and set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine eggs, oil, vanilla extract, milk and sour cream until smooth.
- Stir in cake mix.
- Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full and bake for 16-20 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean.
- Let cool.
- Chocolate frosting: Beat butter. Add cocoa powder, 2 C. powdered sugar and milk. Slowly add more powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency.
- Prep reindeer “faces” by using frosting to stick brown M&M’s on Nilla Wafers (some red for Rudolphs if you want). Melt down a few chocolate chips, put in a small plastic bag, snip off the tip to make a mini piping bag and “dot” little eyeballs on the white M&M’s to make eyes.
- Frost cupcakes.
- Place Nilla wafers with M&M’s on cupcakes, then place pretzels above. Use a little frosting to stick on 2 eyes and there you go!