Christmas Snowman Cupcakes

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 24 small cupcakes
• 26 chocolate coins (or flat circles)
• 24 round chocolate pieces
• 250 g icing sugar
• 125 g butter
• 1 -2 tablespoon hot water
• 24 marshmallows
• 12 chocolate sticks
• 40 g black icing
• 40 g green icing
• 40 g red icing

Recipe

• 1 melt 2 chocolate coins in the microwave or in in a bowl over a pan of simmering water, until liquified.
• 2 dip each cylindrical/round chocolate into the melted chocolate and 'glue' to the coins of chocolate, to look like tophats.
• 3 sieve icing sugar and add to soft butter and hot water.
• 4 mix slowly for 2 minutes, then fast, until light and creamy.
• 5 spread buttercream over each cupcake, leaving a little over to 'glue' the hats on later.
• 6 place a marshmallow in the middle of each cupcake.
• 7 snap each chocolate stick in half and place into the cupcake for arms.
• 8 pipe on a green scarf around the marshmallow.
• 9 pipe on black eyes and red or orange nose and buttons (if it doesn't stick very well, slightly dampen the side of the marshmallow with a wet finger).
• 10 "glue" on the tophat with remaining buttercream.