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Delicious chocolate peppermint cupcakes with a peppermint buttercream frosting, and candy canes! The best candy cane cupcakes for the festive season! <\/h2>\n

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December baking!<\/h3>\n

It is FINALLY December after one of the weirdest years ever… and it’s time for some more delicious treats. Let’s be honest, this year has been tough and I think we should all try and enjoy the festive season as much as we can, safely. <\/p>\n

I have always adored festive baking because of the flavours, the fact that people get so much joy out of it, but this year really has seen such an increase in baking becoming a hobby that I am even more excited to share delicious recipes! <\/p>\n

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Candy cane cupcakes<\/h3>\n

One of the recipes I really wanted to share this year is my candy cane cupcakes. I LOVE the chocolate and mint combination, and candy canes are such an iconic part of the festive season, whether you actually like to eat them or not! <\/p>\n

The main excuse of the candy cane, is the chocolate and mint flavours. Candy canes typically are mint flavoured in my opinion, and when you marry that with a delicious chocolate cupcake you get the best and cutest results ever! Just look at them! <\/p>\n

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Sponge<\/h3>\n

I decided to use a basic chocolate cupcake sponge flavoured with peppermint extract<\/a> – if you don’t want the sponge minty as well though, you can just leave that out!<\/p>\n

I tend to use medium eggs in my baking, but if you use large you can swap up the rest of the ingredients to match. I usually say medium eggs is a 150g sugar\/butter\/flour mix, and large eggs I use a 175g! So, if using large eggs, use 175g butter, 175g sugar, 140g flour, and 35g cocoa powder! <\/p>\n

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Chocolate mint flavour<\/h3>\n

I use the Nielsen Massey peppermint extract<\/a> because it’s my favourite and the quality is the best – but you can use any you fancy! Most supermarket tend to sell the mint flavouring now but just make sure its extract and not essence!<\/p>\n

I also use this delicious cocoa powder<\/a> in all of my baking – the flavour is amazing and it’s lovely and dark in colour! I love the flavour marriage so much I have a candy cane cheesecake<\/a> recipe and a chocolate peppermint cake<\/a> to name a couple!<\/p>\n

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Buttercream<\/h3>\n

For the frosting I just went for a classic american buttercream frosting of unsalted block butter (not a spread), icing sugar, with peppermint extract<\/a> added in! It’s lovely and white in colour and you can achieve this a few ways… <\/p>\n

You can beat your butter on it’s own for at least five minutes – this lightens the colour a lot. You can add in a really really tiny bit of purple food colouring as this covers the yellow colouring (don’t add too much though as it will turn grey!), or you can add white food colouring such as this one<\/a>! <\/p>\n

Baking cups and piping tips<\/h3>\n

For the decoration, I used my all time favourite and best ever 2d closed star piping tip<\/a>! I decided to leave some of the cupcake exposed because I wanted you to be able to see the chocolate cake from underneath, and instead made the swirls of frosting higher! <\/p>\n

I use my favourite regular sized baking cups from Iced Jems<\/a>. I love baking cups as they are neat and pretty! I tend to do a bulk order of baking cups when theres a themed baking week to do – Christmas is my favourite as I love how cute they all are!<\/p>\n

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Topping<\/h3>\n

The topping is simple – mini candy canes, and some crushed candy canes – this is optional, but is obviously the entire point of the bake!! I tend to buy the mini ones, and if I accidentally break any, they are the ones I then crush! <\/p>\n

I really love these cupcakes, and I hope you all love them too! Any questions, leave them in the comments below – and if you have a go at the them, make sure to tag me on social media so I can see them! x<\/p>\n

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Candy Cane Cupcakes!<\/h2>\n\t\t
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Delicious chocolate peppermint cupcakes with a peppermint buttercream frosting, and candy canes! The best candy cane cupcakes for Christmas!\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n