I could have made a candy cane dish every day of this month, so it was hard to zone in and focus on one treat. When I first received my challenge, i immediately was going to make a holiday mixer, but I opted for something sweeter instead. I made Holiday Cupcakes with a Candy Cane Swirl!
Ingredients:
- 1 box of cake mix (I had confetti cake on hand, I would definitely suggest using a white cake mix)
- 1 jar of Betty Crocker Whipped Vanilla Frosting
- 15-20 drops of red food coloring
2 4 tbsp peppermint extract (thanks Jamin for the correction)- 24 cute muffin baking cups
Steps:
- Preheat oven and prepare the cake mix per instructions on the box.
- Enlist a helper. Have said helper hammer peppermints into crumbs.
- Add the crushed mint and 2 tbsp peppermint extract to cake batter and mix with standing mixer.
- Reserve 1 cup of batter and put in a small bowl.
- Scoop cake batter into lined muffin pan.
- With reserved batter stir in 15-20 drops of red food coloring.
- Spoon red batter in to muffin cups and swirl with a knife.
- Bake for 18-22 minutes.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool.
- Once cool, frost with Whipped Vanilla Frosting, serve and enjoy!
And Voila!
They are rather tasty, but there is no way that Jamin and I can eat 24 cupcakes before they spoil, so we both will be bringing a treat to work this week!
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