Cupcakes are a potent part of Christmas feast. They are scrumptious, rich, buttery and not even a bit healthy. But that’s okay because Christmas treats and Christmas time aren’t even meant to be healthy. But what about the theme? You cannot just present ordinary or simple cupcakes during Christmas. Christmas cupcakes must be delicious, decadently rich and most importantly, true to the theme. Keeping that in mind, we’ve got our readers a collection of reindeer cupcake recipes and ideas that will ‘sleigh’ you! So check out those beautiful reindeer cupcakes below.
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Candy Cane Reindeer Cupcakes:
How cute and goofy does this reindeer look? And it’s pink and white, a color rarely used for reindeer, which is making this cupcake stand out. You need to use yellow box cake for making these cupcakes. Just add a few drops of red food coloring to give it your desired shade. Basic buttercream frosting and candy canes are used for decorating these cupcakes.
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Mini Reindeer Cupcakes:
Here are some merry mini reindeer for you to serve your guests this Christmas. Make a batch of mini chocolate cupcakes. You can easily base 48 cupcakes in one batch. To make the antlers, download the template for reference. You can make the nose of one of these reindeer red so that you get a Rudolf as well.
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Rudolf Cupcakes:
These Rudolf cupcakes would be a unique Christmas treat for kids. These cupcakes have delicious chocolate sponge slathered with rich chocolate buttercream. The adorable reindeer look is attained using pretzels and M&Ms. And do you know what’s the best part about these cupcakes? They can be made from the scratch in just 30 minutes.
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Simple Reindeer Cupcakes:
Here’s a perfect reindeer cupcake recipe to celebrate the onset of winter and of course, holidays. This cupcake is slathered with Italian buttercream frosting, which makes it even more delicious. And we’re sure these cupcakes will get an amazing response, especially from children.
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Reindeer Cupcake Recipe By Enza’s Bargains:
This is one of the easiest reindeer cupcake recipes in our opinion because you do not need any elaborate prop to make the face of the reindeer. The combination of dark chocolate cupcake base and light brown frosting is creating a beautiful look. However, getting your hands on the cute bow can be a bit of a work.
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Chocolate Reindeer Cupcakes:
These cute and absolutely adorable reindeer cupcakes by Hungry Happenings will definitely delight both kids and adults alike. This cupcake or rather Rudolf has chocolate peanut butter head, candy cane antlers, malted milk ball hooves and red candy nose, which makes it look amazing. And how can we forget the body, made with the best chocolate cupcake ever!
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Easy Reindeer Cupcakes:
Oodles of chocolate frosting, Nilla Wafers, and red M&Ms are required for making these cutest Christmas reindeer cupcakes. If you want, you can make these cupcakes using readymade chocolate cupcakes, or you can make them from scratch. We’d suggest you make these cupcakes with your kids when the school goes out for the holidays.
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Rudolf Cupcakes:
How beautiful and detailed are these Rudolf cupcakes? We totally loved the shimmery red nose and the super detailed antlers. And of course, the neatly made ears and mouth. Everything is done with perfection. Basically, you need to have a good knowledge of fondant decoration while making these cupcakes.
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Red Velvet Rudolf Cupcakes:
How about making some red velvet Rudolf cupcakes complete with antlers, eyes, red nose and cute antlers? These are super easy to make if you make use of boxed red velvet cake mix. The decoration is the most important part of these cupcakes, so make sure you do them well.
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Adorable Reindeer Cupcakes:
It looks like these reindeers are up for a dance on the occasion of Christmas, isn’t it? These Rudolf cupcakes are basically a swirl of chocolate frosting, sugar eyes, red candy nose and of course, broken pretzel twists. We’re sure they’ll bring a smile to the sweet little faces of children.
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Easy And Adorable Reindeer Cupcake Recipe:
These darling reindeer cupcakes are too adorable to eat, primarily because they are completely different from what we have seen until now. The face of reindeer is made using cracker biscuits and chocolate coated pretzels are used for the antlers. The peanut butter frosting looks absolutely delish.
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Easy Rudolf Reindeer Cupcakes:
Here’s another supremely easy reindeer cupcake recipe we’ve got for you. In fact, it’s one of those recipes in which you can transform ordinary cupcakes into adorable, too cute to eat reindeer. Just slather chocolate ganache on chocolate cupcakes and do the decoration, which we believe is pretty straightforward.
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Reindeer Cupcakes By Betty Crocker:
Reindeer cupcakes do not always have to include their faces. They can be made pretty and festive without drawing faces on them too. Here’s an interesting recipe by Betty Crocker that will help you transform cupcakes into mini reindeer. Believe us, they’ll be as much loved as the ones with faces.
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Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer Cupcake Toppers:
Give your cupcakes an extraordinary look by topping them with these reindeer toppers. The link includes the recipe to make Rudolf the Red-nosed reindeer, but before proceeding, ensure that you know a thing or two about fondant designing. This recipe needs a bit of artwork and precision.
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Reindeer Cupcakes By Hoosier Homemade:
Wow, the extremely talented blogger has included all the nine reindeer of Santa here, Prancer, Dancer, Dasher, Comet, Vixen, Cupid, Blitzen, Bonner and how can we forget, Rudolf, sitting pretty in the middle. We totally love the detailing of these cupcakes, especially around the mouth. And their grinning faces are making us smile as well.
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Reindeer Cupcakes By Smarty Party Planning:
These reindeer cupcakes with cherry noses, chocolate chips eyes and pretzel antlers look incredibly cute and cuddly. The decoration is easy to pull too!
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Reindeer Cupcakes By Your Cup Of Cake:
These reindeer cupcakes are a dream for every novice baker. You don’t need to do anything special for creating these cupcakes. These cupcakes require only strategic placements, which even children can do. And most of the ingredients required for these cupcakes must be lying in your pantry itself!
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Chocolate Reindeer Cupcakes:
Chocolate cupcakes are always a favorite, but how about revamping it a bit to make it suitable for the holidays? If you wish to make chocolate cupcakes from the scratch, head to the salted caramel chocolate cupcake recipe, provided by the blogger herself. You’ll be left with assembling, which we believe is no rocket science.
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Kawaii Reindeer Cupcake:
This Kawaii reindeer cupcake is too adorable to eat with its little, rounder ears and tiny eyes. And what’s on his right? Is that a humanoid reindeer? We think it’s a lovely change from the regular reindeer cupcakes. The recipe given is in Chinese, but you can use a translator to understand or note down the recipe.
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Reindeer Cupcakes From My Cake School:
Here’s another awesome way to decorate reindeer cupcakes. The cupcakes are basic chocolate cupcakes piped with chocolate frosting. The reindeer, on the other hand, are made using mini candy bars, pretzels, and sprinkles. Even the arrangement of these cupcakes is very easy. You just need to have steady hands.
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Easy Reindeer Cupcakes By Sippy Cup Mom:
Here’s another oh-so-cute and festive looking reindeer cupcake. The white icing is used for the mouth and brown icing is used for the body on chocolate and vanilla cupcakes. Other than that, marshmallows are used for the eyes and pretzel are used for the antlers to give these cupcakes a reindeer like look!
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Peabody’s Reindeer Cupcakes:
Here’s another fun reindeer cupcake idea made with mini pretzels, chocolate chips and mini donuts frosted with chocolate. And how can we forget the cute red nose made with red M&Ms, without which our Rudolf is incomplete? These cupcakes are very easy to assemble and look very cheery and cute.
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Rudolf Cupcake Toppers:
If you’re well versed with fondants, you can try making these Rudolf cupcake toppers too. They require a bit of work, but the end result makes it totally worth it. And the best part is that you can place it on the cupcake of any flavor and color. Look how pretty it looks placed on a blue cupcake.
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Chocolate Reindeer Cupcakes:
These chocolate reindeer cupcakes are so easy to make that even children can prepare it, that too without your assistance. You just have to make a swirl on top of the reindeer cupcakes using a large round tip and decorate it with chocolate covered antlers. Do the rest of the decoration with googly eyes and red candies.
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Chocolate Reindeer Cupcakes By 12 Tomatoes:
These chocolate reindeer cupcakes are perhaps the best thing to ring in the holiday season. Chocolate cupcakes are slathered with marshmallow icing and coated with chocolate glaze.
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Reindeer Fondant Cupcakes:
Here’s another reindeer cupcake idea using fondant. The blogger suggests that you can either make your fondant yourself or order it online. The fondant decoration is pretty easy and basic and you can make the antlers using edible food pen. Place the eyes and nose on the face and you’re done.
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Reindeer Cupcakes From Walking On Sunshine:
These reindeer cupcakes are made with homemade vanilla cupcakes and chocolate frosting. However, if you want, you can replace them with boxed cake mix and canned frosting. The decoration is also extremely easy as you just have to pipe the frosting put the eyes, antlers, and nose on it.
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Chocolate Reindeer Cupcakes By Half Baked Harvest:
Wow, we have all of Santa’s reindeer here, with Rudolf leading them. Chocolate cupcakes are coated with frosting that tastes like mousse and decorated with M&Ms, pretzels and mini Nilla Wafers. We must say the colorful cupcake liners are making a world of difference here.
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Easy Reindeer Cupcakes:
These reindeer cupcakes look very neat and properly decorated. The props like antlers and eyes are probably not edible, but you can select edible ingredients. We totally loved the way frosting has been piped on these cupcakes. It’s looking very neat and Instagram worthy.
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Candy Cane Reindeer Cupcakes:
In this recipe, chocolate cupcakes are topped with peppermint flavor buttercream and dusted with crushed candy canes. For the antlers, you can go with chocolate coated pretzels, just like other recipes. This will give you a winning combination of salted pretzel, rich dark chocolate and candy cane in a cupcake.
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Reindeer Cupcakes By Sweet Tooth:
Just look how cute these reindeer cupcakes look! These cupcakes are not very elaborate, but are winning with their simplicity. These have decorative white frosting, chocolate ears and pretzel antlers that are making them look very attractive and charming. The eyes are definitely unique.
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Reindeer Cupcakes By Manu’s Menu:
These reindeer cupcakes are the cutest thing ever! And what we loved the most about them is the idea of using different colored cupcake liners for each cupcake. And chocolate lovers will enjoy it even more because these are double chocolate cupcakes.
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Easy Rudolf Cupcakes:
These adorable reindeer cupcakes are decorated with chocolate frosting, a candy bow, a red gumball and a few pretzel pieces. We must say they are pretty enough to be presented as gifts.
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Reindeer Cupcake Toppers:
What do you think about these reindeer cupcake toppers made with Nutter Butter? Just use some melted almond bark to adhere them to the cake.
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Reindeer Cupcakes By Sugar And Vice:
We must admit the mouths of these reindeer are looking very realistic, something that you should definitely consider for baking these cupcakes.
All these reindeer cupcakes are sure to make your Christmas even sweeter. You can even make these Christmas reindeer and Rudolf cupcakes for gifting your near and dear ones. It’s sure to make them jump with joy. We’d love to know your experience with these reindeer cupcake recipes. So don’t forget to comment.
