Christmas Reindeer Cupcakes from Fruit Bowl - Recipe!

With only a week until Christmas Fruit Bowl have a recipe to get you into the festive spirit. These reindeer cupcake are great to make with the kids and the whole family can enjoy eating them.

Made with Fruit Bowl's Peelers. This fun and festive twist on the humble cupcake is guaranteed to taste as good as it looks! 

Total cooking time: 45 minutes

Servings: 12

You will need:

2 packs (16g) Fruit Bowl Strawberry Peelers

260g butter

110g caster sugar

2 large eggs

110g self-raising flour

300g icing sugar

3 tablespoons cocoa powder

Edible eyes

24 pretzels

12 Christmas cupcake cases

Instructions:

Preheat your oven to 180 degrees/gas mark 4.

Beat 110g of the butter and all of the caster sugar together until fluffy.

Whisk in the eggs.

Add the flour and stir until combined.

Place the cases in a cupcake tray.

Spoon the mixture evenly into the cases.

Bake for 15 minutes or until a skewer placed in the centre of each cake comes out clean.

Leave on a wire rack to cool.

Meanwhile, make the butter cream. Whisk the remaining butter until soft.

Add the icing sugar and cocoa powder and mix until smooth

Once the cakes are cool, pipe the butter cream on top using a thick nozzle.

Chop each Fruit Bowl Strawberry Peeler into 6 so you have 12 pieces.

Push one of the Peeler pieces into the centre of the butter cream on each cake.

Take two pretzels and place on the top of the cupcake to make antlers.

Finally, place two of the edible eyes between the antlers and the peeler to create your Christmas reindeer!

All of the Fruit Bowl products can be bought in Morrisons, Sainsbury's Tesco, The Co-op, Asda, Waitrose and on Ocado. 

Will you be doing any baking in the run up to Christmas?