Description
These Grinch Cupcakes are perfect for the holiday season featuring a peppermint cupcake base topped with a festive Grinch inspired peppermint buttercream. They are kid friendly and ideal for fun holiday baking and Christmas dessert ideas.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 4 large eggs
- 1 ½ cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- 3 tsp vanilla bean paste
- 1 tsp peppermint extract
- 1 cup milk
- 2 lbs powdered sugar
- 6 sticks butter softened
- 1 TBS peppermint extract
- ½ TBS vanilla extract
- 4–6 TBS milk
- neon green food coloring
- red food coloing
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line 24 cupcake tins with cupcake liners
- Combine your dry ingredients – flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt – in a large bowl and mix together
- In another bowl, beat the eggs and sugar until they’re light and fluffy
- Add your butter, vanilla bean paste, and peppermint extract to the sugar mixture and mix until combined
- Add your milk and mix again
- Finally, add the flour mixture and stir that in by hand
- Use a cupcake scoop to fill each cupcake tin ½ to ¾ full with batter
- Bake for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick poked in the center comes out clean
- Whip the softened butter in a stand mixer until smooth and fluffy
- Gradually add the powdered sugar on low speed mixing until smooth
- Add peppermint and vanilla extract and mix again
- Add 4 TBS milk and add more if needed for piping consistency
- Divide frosting into three portions and color two with green and red food coloring respectively
- Pipe two layers of green frosting on each cooled cupcake
- Pipe two smaller layers of red frosting on top to form Santa hats
- Finish with white frosting piping a star hat design to create lining and hat top
Notes
- Store covered in an airtight container for up to five days
- Freeze cupcakes before frosting for up to three months, thaw to room temperature before frosting
- Bake in two ovens or switch racks halfway when baking two tins at once for even baking
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 537kcal
- Sugar: 51g
- Sodium: 314mg
- Fat: 32g
- Saturated Fat: 20g
- Unsaturated Fat: 1g + 8g
- Trans Fat: 1g
- Carbohydrates: 61g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 110mg