You’ll love making these Candy Cane Christmas Cupcakes Recipe with a North Pole Twist!
Visiting the North Pole? Give Santa some Candy Cane Christmas Cupcakes.
A quick easy recipe that can only be mistaken for homemade at it best. You would swear Mrs. Claus prepared these for Santa herself.
- Cupcakes:
- 3 cup Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1 cup softened Butter
- 2 cup Sugar
- 3 Eggs
- 2 tsp Vanilla
- 16 oz Sour Cream
- Frosting:
- 1 cup softened Butter
- 3 tbsp Milk
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 4 cup Powdered Sugar
- Decorations:
- 12 Peppermint Sticks
- ¼ cup White Sparkling Sugar
- Printed Labels
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Line muffin pan with paper liners
- Cream butter and sugar in mixer until fluffy.
- Beat in vanilla and eggs one at a time.
- Add baking powder, salt and flour gradually until mixed.
- Add in sour cream and beat until blended.
- Fill cups to nearly full.
- Bake 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
- Allow to cool completely.
- Cream butter in a medium bowl
- Slowly add in the powdered sugar, and milk as needed, until everything is incorporated and frosting is right consistency.
- Transfer to piping bag or zippered bag and clip corner to pipe.
- Frost cupcakes.
- Sprinkle with sparkling sugar, inset peppermint sticks and attch labels.
Click here for PDF for Cupcakes==> Candy Cane Christmas Cupcake Tags
The ingredients for the Candy Cane Christmas Cupcakes Recipe are easy to assemble, you probably have them all in your pantry during the holiday season.
Hot Tip: For the best sour cream cupcake make sure to really cream the butter and sugar, this will enable a smooth base for the addition of the vanilla and eggs.
Once out of the oven, the Candy Cane Christmas Cupcakes will fill the room with an aroma of sour cream and vanilla. Make sure to thorougly cool before decorating!
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What a yummy, cute treat to have on the dessert table for Christmas!
These are so cute! Pinning this recipe to make this weekend.
These cupcakes look delicious! Great for a Christmas party!
These look so yummy and I will have to try out the recipe 🙂
i love cupcakes like to try this
Looking good and tasty
Very yummy. Thanks for sharing
Those are very festive cupcakes. I like peppermint flavoring.
This is a nice way to enjoy the flavor of candy cane and have a cupcake, too.
I love the look of the sprinkles on the frosting. So festive
I am going to use this recipe!
Great recipe Shelley and I can see myself serving this at my Christmas party. Like the little North Pole signs as they are a cute touch.
I adore the flag pole on these!
These sound so good! Don’t want to wait until Christmas to make them.
Colourful, festive cupcakes, they will be gone before I realize
Yummy, but you can bet I’ll put some peppermint extract in the frosting, too!
I love pepermint flavored anything! Cupcakes are one thing i havent thought to try yet!
Only 11 months til Christmas. What??? Let’s make these for Valentines.
These are too cute and look very delicious. Will definitely keep these in mind for next year.
I love this recipe with the sour cream. Still time to make this, but I’ll leave off the adorable North Pole sign – do that next year!