Santa Hat Topped Red Velvet Cupcakes Recipe

Skill Level:Intermediate

Prep Time:30 Minutes

Bake Time:20 Minutes

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or oleo, softened 125 cubic centimeter
• 1 one/2 cups sugar                                 375 cubic centimeter
• 2 eggs                                                          2
• 1 tsp vanilla extract                                         5 cubic centimeter
• 1 cup buttermilk or bitter milk*                 250 cubic centimeter
• 2 tbsp red food colouring                         30 cubic centimeter
• 2 cups all-purpose flour                         500 cubic centimeter
• 1/3 cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa                 75 cubic centimeter
• 1 tsp salt                                                         5 cubic centimeter
• 1 one/2 tsp baking soda                         7 cubic centimeter
• 1 tbsp white vinegar one                           5 cubic centimeter
• 1 cup CHIPITS bittersweet chocolate Chips 250 cubic centimeter
• 1 - a pair of cans ready-to-spread vanilla ice or your favorite do-it-yourself frosting 340 g Semitic deity
• Red and inexperienced colored sugars
• 28 HERSHEY’S KISSES complete candy Mint Candies or HERSHEY’S KISSES complete Milk Chocolates 28

Directions:

• 1 Heat kitchen appliance to 350°F (180°C). Line gem cups (2-1/2 inches/6 cm in diameter) with paper or foil baking cups.
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• 2 Beat butter and sugar in giant bowl; add eggs and vanilla, beating well. Stir along milk and colouring. Stir along flour, cocoa and salt; add alternately to butter mixture with milk mixture, compounding well. Stir in sodium hydrogen carbonate and vinegar. Stir in chocolate chips. Fill gem cups regarding 1/2 full with batter.
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• 3 Bake regarding twenty minutes or till wood choose inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool fully in pan on wire rack.
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• 4 put aside regarding 3/4 cup (175 mL) ice; frost cupcakes with remaining frosting. munificently sprinkle first-rate of opaque cupcakes with inexperienced or red colored sugars. take away wrappers from candies. Place reserved ice in heavy-duty (freezer) resealable food storage bag. interrupt one corner of bag regarding 1/4 in. (0.5 cm) from purpose. Squeeze quarter-sized small indefinite quantity of ice onto high of cupcake; push a HERSHEY’S KISSES complete candy candy or HERSHEY’S KISSES complete chocolate into center of small indefinite quantity in order that ice comes up around bottom fringe of candy piece forming the “fur” cuff of Santa’s hat. Place tiny dab of ice on tip of candy piece to complete hat.

Makes regarding twenty eight cupcakes.

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