Here Comes Santa Clause

It's Christmas Eve and my favorite time of year. Trading presents, getting to see friends and family, eating lots of good food and watching great Christmas movies. My favorite Christmas movie of all time is The Santa Clause with Tim Allen. It's a movie that I could watch every year and always laugh at the same parts.  This movie goes with this cupcake better than any other cupcake I've ever made could go with a movie! First here is a little video to put a smile on your face!

I got this idea from Hello, Cupcake, but I added a few things to make it my own. For this cupcake you are going to need a regular size cupcake for Santa's body and a mini cupcake for his head.

First, I started with his body because it's a little more simple than his head. I iced the regular sized cupcake with red icing and then dipped it into red decorating sugar. I then got two green gumdrops, put a little icing on the bottom of each one and stuck one on either side of the cupcake to make it look like his hands/mittens. Then I began working on his head. His head will take a little longer and you will need a few more materials. I covered the mini cupcake in icing and began working on his beard which is made out of white gumdrops, and also his hat which is made out of red gumdrops. I rolled the white gumdrops out on a cutting board, and continuously added white decorating sugar to it as I rolled it out because if you don't then it will stick to your rolling pin. I also did this with the red gumdrops but used red decorating sugar so it would blend in. Once I rolled the gumdrops out I cut a beard shape out of the white gumdrops and a Santa's hat shape out of the red gumdrops. I put the gumdrop beard on the cupcake and then added the gumdrop hat (if the gumdrop hat is a little flimsy then stick in the freezer for a few minutes to make it  more stiff). Then I piped icing around the edge of the hat and at the tip of the hat. I added his eyes which are little dots of melting chocolate and his nose which is also melting chocolate. Finally, I iced his cheeks with pink icing and he became Santa Claus.

This is my last blog for the Christmas holiday and then I will be making more cupcake designs to write about. I hope you have enjoyed all these Christmas cupcakes and blogs and thanks so much for reading!

Only 1 more day 'til Christmas!

Merry Christmas!