Birthday Cupcakes

Since we have two birthdays right at Christmas time, we started a new McKinney family tradition this year and made birthday cake on Christmas Eve. This year, I made cupcakes. We made one box of chocolate and one box of yellow cake. Turns out one box will make 12 big cupcakes and 24 little cupcakes. I decorated them in a Christmas theme.






















The cake was just the cake mix.
The chocolate frosting was Marie's Chocolate Icing from the Betty Crocker Cooky Book
1tbsp butter
1sq unsweetened chocolate (1 oz)
1 1/2 tbsp warm water (I used cream)
1 c sifted confectioners' sugar
melt butter and chocolate over hot water, blend in the warm water (or cream) Beat in confectioner's sugar until icing spreads easily.

The white was the Butter Icing from the same recipe book
2 1/2 tbsp soft butter
1 1/2 c. sifted confectioner's sugar
1 1/2 tbsp cream
3/4 tsp vanilla

blend butter and sugar together, stir in cream and vanilla till smooth.

The snowman is a couple of marshmallows and I drew on them with foodsafe markers that I bought in the frosting section of the grocery store. The hat is just a chocolate bell and the scarf is a stretched out candy.

For the reindeer, the antlers are broken pretzels and the eyes are just skittles of the right color

Alex really enjoyed his birthday cupcake