We have been ridiculously excited about this super pink reindeer cake tutorial for a while now! We partnered with Benefit Cosmetics UK to help get everyone in the holiday spirit with this gorgeous video how-to. If you LOVED our stylish Mrs Claus cupcake tutorial with Benefit last year then you’ll adore this! Whether you’re a novice or an expert this sweet treat is going to make THE cutest centrepiece!
You can view our full tutorial over on IGTV via our Instagram page (Yay! We’ve launched own own channel so expect lots more tutorials and filmed sneak peeks) or the Benefit Cosmetics UK account! If you’re more of a YouTube user then don’t worry we’ve edited the video so that it is lovely and landscape! Click the play button below to watch or head to our YouTube channel and subscribe!
And yes. We would put a gif together of the cake being stacked! It feels so magical. If only cakes actually did appear in front of us like this!
We decorated our end design in the reindeer cake tutorial with sprinkles, snowflakes and macarons. You can re-create our little arrangement or add chocolate truffles, candy or even fresh roses? Glittering star shaped cookies, chocolate jewels and even lollipops sound amazing too! If you’re feeling super adventurous (or brave) then a cute drip down one side and homemade candy canes would be so impressive.
Once your own reindeer cake is all dressed up and ready for party season it’s time to fill your phone with 1,000 photos of it! Hope you enjoyed creating one gorgeously pink cake! From us and Benefit Cosmetics have an amazing holiday season!
It’s December in less than 48 hours! How crazy is that? Get yourself ready for the quickly approaching festive season with these super cute and super chic macaron baubles! They’re perfect for your tree, nestled inside a sweet Christmas Eve box or added as stylishly edible gift tags on presents!
Oh la la! Just look at those little pretties! They’re available in boxes of 6 baubles for £10. You can opt for an even mix or go for all one flavour too. We’re also able to ship these nationwide (UK) for an added P&P cost of £10 which gets you speedy next day delivery (though this is unavailable for weekend or Monday deliveries). Read on for more about those cute little macarons! Or you can contact us to order via the form below!
This one (above) is the boozy one and will, most likely, be the popular option for all the grown-ups out there! It’s a Raspberry Pink Gin macaron. A lovely blush pink macaron filled with pink gin infused raspberry preserve and a gin & tonic raspberry buttercream. It’s then all dressed up as a festive Christmas pudding with an icing drip, pink berries and tiny fondant holly leaves. Ready for party season!
Pretty Christmas macaron baubles!
This gorgeous macaron is our popular Vanilla & White Chocolate Truffle flavour! It’s a white macaron filled with creamy Madagascan vanilla bean and Belgian white chocolate buttercream with a candy drizzle. We then finish with a flurry of white and pale pink snow sprinkles including sugar pearls, confetti and snowflakes!
Each pretty Christmas macaron bauble is finished with a ribbon, large bow and our famous glittering swing tag! They’re easy to slip on to your Christmas tree branch. You can also add them to hand-tied bows on presents too. We think they’d even look cute on a bauble covered wreath! Obviously, we added our macaron baubles to a super pink Christmas tree!
Yay! It’s Christmas week! We’ve been SO insanely busy throughout November and December that we haven’t had much time to work on any tutorials or recipes for our blog. Fear not, however, we’re kick starting this week with this cute how-to… make a Christmas pudding cupcake tutorial! Our gold splattered Christmas pudding cookies were ridiculously popular this year. We created just over 300 of them (and so many other Christmas themed cookie designs too) before we had to stop taking Christmas orders last week. As we sat decorating each one we ended up sketching a quick cupcake idea for a character driven Christmas pudding! Behold our Christmas pudding cupcake tutorial… so tasty that it’s even trying to eat itself.
Firstly, core and fill your cupcake with buttercream or whatever filling you like to use. You can even use a small sharp knife to remove a little of the cupcake at the centre before filling. Some tasty filling ideas include salted caramel, marshmallow cream or even cookie butter!
Tip! Don’t go overboard when coring your cupcake. Try not to go all the way to the bottom or else you could pierce the cupcake case, which may mean your filling will seep out completely!
Step 02:
For a super smooth and flawless look to fondant iced cupcakes we always double ice. This just means smoothing down a small circle of fondant on top of the cupcake before you really start decorating!
Roll out some sugar paste / fondant and cut a circle just a little smaller than your cupcake. Place on top and smooth down.
Step 03:
Repeat step 02, but with brown fondant and also use a circle a little larger than your cupcake so that the fondant can cover the entire top of your cupcake! Smooth down so the brown fondant sits along the top of your cupcake case. You may also need to use a little edible glue to stick it in place too.
Step 04:
Roll out white fondant and cut a small circle from this. This is going to create the icing on top of your Christmas pudding cupcake!
Step 05:
With a small sharp knife or a blade tool cut away sections of your white sugar paste / fondant circle until it resembles a ‘wobbly’ shape like the one above. This is going to be the icing that will drip down your little Christmas pudding cupcake.
Step 06:
Attach the ‘icing’ on top with some edible glue. Then dust or paint the white icing section with some sparkling lustre! This step isn’t absolutely essential, BUT a little glitz this time of year is a win/win!
Step 07:
Roll some green fondant and then cut and stamp two holly leaves per cupcake. Small plunger cutters are great for this because the plunger section usually features a ‘print’ or texture that you can then transfer onto the cut piece.
Step 08:
Attach the holly leaves in place on top of your Christmas pudding cupcake with a little edible glue. Edible glue can be a little slippery so don’t use too much and make sure you gently hold your pieces in place until they feel stuck down.
Step 09:
Take some pink (you can use red though if you like) sugar paste / fondant and roll into three small balls per cupcake. Then attach with a dab of edible glue. Afterwards, once these have been attach you’ll need to paint each berry with a little confectioner’s glaze. This helps make the berries shine!
Step 10:
Using a small ball tool indent where you’d like your cupcake’s eyes to sit. Then with a tiny amount of edible glue attach two black sugar pearls (or you can roll two small balls of black fondant) into the indentations.
Step 11:
Use the base of a small piping tip to then indent a cheeky smile underneath the eyes! Or you can also use a scallop tool, which can usually be found in an icing modelling tool set. It looks like a simple curved line.
Step 12:
For the tongue roll out a small ball of pink sugar paste / fondant and flatten it into an oval-like shape. Cut the piece in half then indent a line down the middle with a blade tool or small sharp knife. Be careful not to cut the tongue in half!
Step 13:
Next, attach the tongue with a small amount of edible glue as in the image above. Also, try not to add too much as edible glue can seep out or lead to pieces sliding around if too much is applied… which isn’t a good look.
Step 14:
Finally, add blush to your Christmas pudding cupcake with pink edible blossom / petal dust and a fluffy food safe brush. You don’t need to follow this step, however it really ups the cute factor!
Build your colour up a little at a time. It’s easier to add further blush if needed than have to start all over again!
How cute is this Christmas pudding cupcake tutorial? We (almost) wouldn’t be able to eat it. Traditionally holly berries and leaves are used to decorate a Christmas pudding, but you can personalise yours to fit whatever your festive theme is. So why not opt for plunger cut snowflakes or a cute little edible bow?
Of course it wouldn’t really be Christmas if that jolly guy in the red suit didn’t pop up somewhere… and here he is! We created one fun and festive Santa cupcake tutorial for the wonderful people over at Craftsy to share. We wanted this little Santa do a little more than sit on a nice cupcake. At the time we began sketching ideas we’d just finished hand piping lots of birthday cupcakes with little painted parcels finished with royal icing bows. After piping what felt like 1,000 little silver presents AND doing the same for our Christmas tree tutorial we thought they’d make a fun idea for this cupcake design too. So, being the crazy people we are (normal people would never want to look at a tiny piped bow ever again) we made our Santa Claus burst from a pile of Christmas gifts! So if you’d love to re-create this Santa cupcake tutorial then visit the Craftsy blog now!
Jolly Santa cupcake tutorial!
We initially thought of toying with Santa’s famous red suit and re-creating him in gold, but obviously that idea was scrapped. Instead, we toned down the bright red of his famous Christmas uniform by adding in pink gift boxes. We also jotted down some notes on how to photograph him… lots of white, brightness, minimal styling and to try out different shades of A2 pink paper backgrounds.
If you look closely you can spot some rather glittery golden buttons down Santa’s coat. We had to work in some gold somewhere (other than a few of the presents and the cupcake cases). We re-created the cute buttons we made for our fondant gingerbread character tutorial a couple weeks back and attached them before painting them gold.
If you’re going to be re-creating our Santa cupcake tutorial for the holidays you can always leave out the cupcake, nestle your Santa Claus on top of an iced cake and surround him with presents and even a Christmas tree!
It’s time for our very last recipe of the year! OK, this sounds pretty extreme until a look at the calendar reveals that there’s now just over 2 weeks left until the end of 2016. Crazy right? Anyway, we thought we’d end the year on one ridiculously quick and easy recipe so don’t worry… no hours squished in a packed kitchen (some of those turkeys are humungous) trying to rustle up impressive sweets to add to the dessert table. Nope. This one is so simple you could even whip it up as a special treat for yourself for coping with Christmas preparation stress. Read on for our festive white chocolate rocky road recipe!
01: Gather up all your ingredients. To get a good Christmas-y colour theme going in this rocky road recipe we paired the classic cranberry with bright green pistachio nuts.
Note: For shortbread cookies you can even swap these for vanilla sugar cookies or even spiced gingerbread biscuits.
02: In a bowl add the pink marshmallows, dried cranberries, shelled pistachios, macadamia or almond nuts together and mix.
03: In a microwave melt down your white chocolate. Heat the chocolate up for 10-30 second intervals, remove, gently stir and add back to the microwave if still lumpy and unmelted.
Tip!
It’s best to be conservative when it to comes to heating up and melting chocolate. We aim to melt ours slowly a little above room temperature at around 34 degrees C so that it doesn’t burn and instead goes a lovely silky smooth consistency.
04: When your chocolate is ready pour it into the bowl of dry ingredients (marshmallows, cranberries, pistachios, macadamia nuts or almonds) and mix until incorporated.
05: Grease a deep square baking pan. You can line your pan with greaseproof paper, but when it comes to smoothing the ingredients and chocolate around the paper could move and be a little annoying.
06: Pour the entire rocky road mixture into your greased baking pan. Spread and flatten using a spatula until the mix is nice and level before placing in a refrigerator for around 2-3 hours.
07: When set remove from the refrigerator and cut into squares or rectangles! You’ll need a good large sharp knife for this step as you’ll be cutting through nuts and set chocolate.
You can always amp up the Christmas cheer on this white chocolate rocky road recipe by adding snowflake sprinkles on top, dusting liberally with edible glitter or even by adding edible holly leaves and berries onto the corner of each tasty square! We love the idea of drizzling them with pink candy melts and adding a flurry of winter-y themed sugar sprinkles.
