Gluten Free Reindeer Cupcakes

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"Gluten Free Reindeer cupcakes to brighten up your Christmas table"
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Cook time 35mins
Serves or Makes: 12

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For the cupcakes

ingredients

  • 1/2 cup sunflower oil
  • 1/2 cup caster sugar
  • 2 large at room temperature eggs
  • 1 cup woolworths gluten free flour
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 1/3 teaspoon Baking powder
  • 1/2 cup at room temperature milk
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

For the frosting

ingredients

  • 280 gram at room temperature butter
  • 560 gram sifted icing sugar
  • 10 milliliter at room temperature milk
  • 45 gram sifted cocoa powder

For the cupcakes

Method

  • Step 1

    Preheat oven to 180C, line cupcake pan with cupcake wrappers

  • Step 2

    In a mixing bowl, whisk oil and sugar. Add eggs and beat for one minute.

  • Step 3

    Add flour, salt, baking powder, milk and vanilla and beat for another minute

  • Step 4

    Spoon batter into cupcake wrappers (only filling halfway) and bake for 15 - 20 minutes or until cupcakes are lightly browned

  • Step 5

    Cool completely before frosting

For the buttercream

  • Step 1

    Beat butter until light and creamy

  • Step 2

    Then add in half the icing sugar and mix till combined

  • Step 3

    Now add the milk and the other half of icing powder and mix till combined and finally, mix in the cocoa powder

  • Step 4

    For the reindeers body, pipe chocolate buttercream icing with an icing nozzle of your choice - I used a simple star nozzle, but you can really use any nozzle you have - be it open star / large round etc. Pipe as high as you can to give your reindeer a solid body.

  • Step 5

    For the antlers - snap a pretzel in half and insert each half into the reindeer's head as pictured above. This is tricky so have some patience and gently try to snap each pretzel in half equally.

  • Step 6

    For the eyes and nose, you can use edible candy eyes and a red M&M Candy for the nose. If you don't have either of these, make a simple royal icing mixture, colour accordingly and pour icing into a small sandwich bag.

  • Step 7

    Cut a small tip off the corner of the bag to ice. White for eyes and red for a nose of course.

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