Our Pull-Apart Santa Cake Will Help You Sleigh The Holidays

Anya Ptacek
·2 min read

Yields: 48

Prep Time: 15 mins

Total Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

  • Cooking spray

  • 2

    (15.25-oz.) box vanilla cake mix, plus ingredients called for on box

  • 4

    (16-oz.) cans store-bought vanilla frosting, divided

  • Red food gel coloring

  • Brown food coloring (optional)

  • 1

    Oreo, divided into wafer halves

  • 3

    mini candy canes

Equipment Needed

  • 2

    piping bags, a large star tip

Directions

  1. Grease 4 standard 12-cup muffin tins with cooking spray; line with liners. In a large bowl, prepare cupcake batter according to box instructions. Divide batter among prepared cups.

  2. Bake cupcakes according to box instructions. Let cool slightly, then refrigerate until cold, about 30 minutes.

  3. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, stir 3 c. frosting and 1 to 2 drops red food coloring, adding more food coloring if needed, until desired color is reached. In another small bowl, mix 1/2 c. white frosting with 1 to 2 drops red frosting to create a pale pink color. (For other skin tones, add brown food coloring until desired shade is reached.) Transfer red icing to piping bag fitted with star tip. Transfer remaining white frosting to second piping bag.

  4. Arrange a row of 3 cupcakes at the top of a platter, followed by a row of 2 cupcakes beneath, then a row of 3, a row of 4, a row of 5, two rows of 6, another row of 5, a row of 8, and a last row of 6. Arrange bottom three rows in a half-moon shape as the beard. Shift top row of 3 cupcakes to one side and angle down to make the hat flop over.

  5. Using an offset spatula, spread pink or brown frosting for face in the center of fifth, sixth, and seventh rows. Using white frosting, swirl a rose onto each cupcake below the face as a beard, as well as on cupcakes on either side of the face. Fill in gaps between roses with smaller swirls. Pipe brim of hat with one long squiggle of white frosting. Pipe tip of hat with one white swirl.

  6. Dollop 2 Oreo wafers with frosting and place as eyes. Pipe eyebrows and a mustache with white frosting, then spoon a small dollop of red frosting above the mustache as a nose.

  7. Clean and transfer star tip to piping bag with red frosting. Swirl unfrosted cupcakes with red roses to complete hat.

  8. Break curved part off of 2 candy canes. Place one straight part in between the eyes for the bridge and a curved cane sticking out of each Oreo to create the sides of Santa’s glasses.

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