Christmas cupcakes

Now we're here, twenty days and it's Christmas!

Finally, it's time to experiment with new Christmas-themed recipes to create succulent dishes and fantastic desserts to give to our friends. Today I show you how to prepare Christmas cupcakes, very simple to make and also very tasty.

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What do you need to have (for about 15 cupcakes):

• 125g of softened butter
• 200g of sugar
• 4 eggs
• a few drops of almond extract
• 150g of self-raising flour
• 175g of ground almonds 

For decoration:

• 450g of white fondant
• icing sugar q.s
• 55g of green fondant
• 1 tablespoon of water
• 25g of red fondant
• Holly stencil

METHOD:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
2. Pour the butter and sugar into a large bowl and beat them with the whisk until a soft mixture is obtained.
3. Add the eggs one at a time, then the almond extract and continue to beat.
4. Sift the flour and add it a little at a time into the bowl, stirring constantly. Add the ground almonds and keep stirring.
5. With a spoon, pour the mixture into cupcakes and bake for about 20 minutes.
6. Let the cupcakes cool once cooked and well browned.
7. Roll out the white fondant with a rolling pin to a thickness of 5mm, helping with the icing sugar to prevent the dough from sticking to the rolling pin.
8. With a round shape of 7cm in diameter cut as many disks as cupcakes and then arrange each round of fondant over the sweets.
9. Roll out the green fondant to a thickness of 5mm and with the stencil go to obtain 2 holly leaves for each cupcakes. Then brush the bottom of each leaf with water and place these on each cupcakes (see photo).
10. With the red fondant go to form small balls to be stored then successively next to the holly leaves (see photo).

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These cupcakes are perfect to celebrate Christmas! Let me know if you have tried to make them too!