These cute Christmas reindeer cupcakes are ridiculously easy to make by decorating chocolate cupcakes with M&Ms, pretzels, and candy eyes.
Do you love to make recipes with your kids? Spending time in the kitchen with your kids is not only fun, but creates wonderful memories.
Whether you and your kids need something for a party or bake sale, cupcakes are always a great option. These Reindeer Cupcakes are fun and a must if you’re making something for kids.
Easy Reindeer Cupcakes
This isn’t one of those recipes where you have to make the cupcakes and frosting from scratch.
Like our Christmas tree frosting cupcakes, this is a recipe that focuses on the decorating so it is A-ok to start with cupcakes made from a mix and use store-bought frosting.
This means that you can make these even on school night. In other words, if you kids happen to forget that they need something for a bake sale, until the last minute, these are perfect.
Your kids will love making these cupcakes. And, if you need more than six, this is extremely easily to double or triple. You can easily make as many as you need. If you’re going to need a lot, you may want to make the cupcakes ahead of time and freeze. You can then defrost them and decorate.
There are so many easy cupcakes you can make with very few decorations. Have fun with it. Remember, it’s more about the memories than the food.
Reindeer Cupcake Ingredients
- 6 chocolate cupcakes, prepared according to the directions on the box
- 6 pretzel twists
- chocolate frosting
- 6 red M&Ms
- 12 candy eyes
How to Make Reindeer Cupcakes
Frost cooled cupcakes with chocolate frosting.
Break a pretzel twist in half to get a curved pretzel. Insert at the top of the cupcake to serve as reindeer antlers.
Place two candy eyes on the cupcake.
Below the eyes, place a red M&M candy for a nose.
That’s it! Super easy, yet super cute!
I hope that you enjoy these adorable reindeer cupcakes!
More fun and easy Christmas desserts:
- Santa Hat Cupcakes
- Christmas Sugar Cookie Fudge
- Christmas Tree Treats
- Popcorn Balls
- Christmas Tree Cone Cupcakes
Reindeer Cupcakes
These cute Christmas reindeer cupcakes are ridiculously easy to make by decorating chocolate cupcakes with M&Ms, pretzels, and candy eyes.
Ingredients
- 6 chocolate cupcakes, prepared according to the directions on the box
- 6 pretzel twists
- chocolate frosting
- 6 red M&Ms
- 12 candy eyes
Instructions
- Frost cooled cupcakes with chocolate frosting.
- Break a pretzel twist in half to get a curved pretzel. Insert at the top of the cupcake to serve as reindeer antlers.
- Place two candy eyes on the cupcake.
- Below the eyes, place a red M&M candy for a nose.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 6 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 506
The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by a third party and intended to serve as an estimate only. The accuracy of nutritional information is not guaranteed.
These are too cute
These are so cute! I love chocolate frosting too, so I’m sure these taste great as well!
I love this reindeer cupcake.
I like the reindeer cupcakes idea so much, I realized I could also do other animals, insects and spiders too.
These are so darn cute with not much extra effort or expense. I’d love to try these, I can hear the oohh’s & giggles now.