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Deliciously chocolatey and fudgey reindeer cupcakes with a chocolate cupcake, chocolate fudge frosting, and reindeer decoration! <\/h2>\n

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IT’S CHRISTMAS BAKING SEASON!!! And yes, I am far too excited about this. I decided to start with a bang and do a super cute, super easy and amazing festive bake – these reindeer cupcakes! <\/p>\n

I have wanted to post some festive cupcakes every year, but as I get so many requests for so many festive recipes I have to make sacrifices.. but this year?! They had to happen. <\/p>\n

These beauties are so chocolatey, so delicious, and a bit of fun so I hope you all adore them as well. <\/p>\n

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Christmas Baking<\/h3>\n

My Christmas baking list is now rather large, and I have no plans on stopping this year either. I am just obsessed. You will find a lot of chocolate orange bakes<\/a>, gingerbread flavours<\/a>, or even a lot of baileys recipes<\/a> – but themed bakes are also just so much fun. <\/p>\n

Because my lacking of themed bakes has become so apparent, I was desperate to do something fun this year as a festive cupcake. In the past my gingerbread cupcakes<\/a> have been super popular, and whilst I adore them, I just wanted a festive cupcake that looked amazing! <\/p>\n

Christmas bakes are always going to be fun to get involved with making, or even just eating. The variety in Christmas baking is so vast now amongst all bakers that it’s just madness! <\/p>\n

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Cupcakes<\/h3>\n

For the cupcakes I went for a basic chocolate cupcake recipe because you want a good stable base for decorating. It’s a super simple recipe to put together consisting of butter, light brown sugar, self raising flour, cocoa powder and eggs. <\/p>\n

I do tend to stick to using light brown soft sugar for my chocolate based cake sponges these days as I just adore the ever so slightly more caramel flavour it brings, but caster sugar works well also. <\/p>\n

I used some gold and brown baking cups<\/a> because I thought they looked cute, but brown muffin cases would work well as well. I wanted a brown based cupcake case and cupcake sponge to suit the ‘brown’ colour of a reindeer.  <\/p>\n

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Frosting<\/h3>\n

For the frosting, instead of using a basic chocolate American buttercream frosting like I often do, I used my best ever chocolate fudge frosting again because I missed it. I just wanted to eat some of it to be honest, and I am so glad I used it on these reindeer cupcakes. <\/p>\n

It is still an American buttercream frosting really of butter and icing sugar, with cocoa powder added in – but the addition of evaporated milk works WONDERS. Honestly, it’s a little life changing. <\/p>\n

If you can’t use evaporated milk for any number of reasons, you can leave it out, or use a smidge of double cream – but you will probably need less. Also, it’s not quiiiite as good this way. <\/p>\n

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Decoration<\/h3>\n

There are a number of ways of decorating the look of the reindeer, even just down to which piping tip you use. I decided to use my favourite piping tip as always<\/a> for a beautiful swirl, and I think it works. <\/p>\n

I then used a simple idea of broken pretzels, red M&M\/smartie, and some edible eyes popped onto the frosting. It really is that simple! But come on, they’re so cute!! <\/p>\n

You could use a jumbo round piping tip<\/a> if you preferred, or even 1m piping tip<\/a> for a slightly different swirl – they’d all work. The pretzels work well because of the curve – it looks like antlers. And also, it doesn’t matter that some looking slightly different, as antlers look different!! <\/p>\n

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Tips & Tricks <\/h3>\n

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