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Hello and welcome to Cupcake Addiction's gorgeous Christmas North Pole Cupcake Tutorial where
I'll be showing you how to make this beautiful and easy little Christmas North Pole cupcake.
Tools and equipment that we will be using today:
I have some scissors, a serrated edge knife, a flat edge knife, a teaspoon, a zip lock
bag. I have some of our glow in the dark perfectly
pipeable frosting. I've only gone with the glow in the dark today because it is such
a lovely bright white color so you can use white [canned] frosting. Otherwise, if you'd
like to make a glow in the dark frosting, I suggest replacing the tonic water, which
is what makes it glow, with milk. So it won't glow but it will still be this lovely white
fluffy light icing. I have a couple of different kinds of sprinkles.
I have some white nonpareils which are almost like little, I suppose, little snow bits of
snow there. I have some silver sanding sugar. Now the silver sanding sugar, you could also
use white or any sort of a glittery sanding sugar. But that's just going to give us a
lovely kind of glittery snow effect on that white frosting.
I've got a couple of little tiny, just, love heart sprinkles, quite widely available at
cake decorating shops. I've got just a few melted red candy melts.
I've got some melted white chocolate. I've got one licorice [all-sort] and I went
with one that's got green on one of the layers to make the presents.
I've got a candy cane, a full-sized candy cane.
I've got a red sour candy strap. Now this is just a... I guess a strap of sour candy.
If you don't have those where you are, you could also try roll ups. Otherwise, you can
roll out some red fondant or some red modeling chocolate.
I've got my cupcake ready to ice. I've got a cocktail stick just to do a little
bit of detail work. And I've got a pre-cut printable. This one's
going to be pointing to Santa's house. And I do have a link to all of those printables
on the description for this tutorial. First things first, we're going to make our
little tiny presents. So I'm going to take that serrated edge knife. I'm just going to
cut away just the bottom, 2 sections of that licorice [all-sort], just so that they turn
out to be a nice square shape and not a big rectangle. And then I'm going to cut that
into four. You actually only need 3 presents. You can use 4 if you like but I thought that
the 3 looked quite cute. Separate those out. Taking the zip lock bag, and our teaspoon,
and red candy melts, just pop a few red, just a little bit of your red candy melt in that
bag. Seal the bag and just trim off a tiny little
corner so that our red candy melt just is forming, I guess, a little piping bag there
for us. Now for these presents, I'm just going to... I like to start quite away with this
side and finish off with this side. It just helps me to get a neater line -- one and two.
And repeat that with all 4 of your presents. Lovely.
Now to finish those off, I'm just going to pick them up, move them off to the sides so
that they're out of the way of the little red candy melt mess.
And to make the little bows, I guess you'd call them, I'm just going to use a little
red love heart sprinkle. And I'm going to just place it into the candy melt. It should
stand up pretty well of its own accord. There's your tiny little present.
Do that another 3 times so you've got all 4 of them ready to go. The great thing about
having 4 is if you happen to mess one up, you've got a spare.
Alright, next we're going to ice our cupcake. So to ice the cupcake, I'm going to take the
flat edge knife and I'm going to take some of that frosting. Using the back of the knife,
I'm just going to grab a bit of a glob of frosting and I'm going to spread it onto the
top of the cupcake -- pushing out towards the patty pan. I just want to push that frosting,
I guess, just off to the edges, not over the sides of the patty pan, just off to the edges
to form a nice neat edge and then neaten it up. Try not to have any of that actual cupcake
poking through. And then to neaten that up, I'm just going
to run my finger around to give you a nice neat edge.
Now I'm going to take some of this sanding sugar and I'm just going to dip the cupcake
in around the edges. You don't have to do the whole lot. It's just going to be around
the edges because we're also going to do a nice little swirl.
Alright, you should have something that looks like that. Beautiful.
I'm going to take... I have a disposable piping bag which I'm pairing with the Loyal number
20 piping nozzle. You don't need this. You can just continue with that lovely, I supposed,
[plopped] on effect of the frosting but I like the piping bag.
I'm going to take my spoon and I'm just going to spoon some of that lovely white icing into
the piping bag. Pushing that frosting all the way down to the end of the bag. Now what
I'm going to do here is just a slightly taller version of our low frosting swirl. So we do
have a tutorial for this swirl on our channel. But I'm just going to start in the middle
and just swirl around. So you should have something that looks like this. Beautiful.
Now, taking that sanding sugar again... And do this over the bowl because otherwise it
will get really messy. I imagine it will anyway. Just sprinkle some freshly fallen glittery
snow on that cupcake, all the way to the edges. Alright, there's your prepared cupcake.
Now it's time for us to make our Santa hat. So you want to take your candy cane. Snap
it off as high as you can. So just take off the curved edge so that you've got a North
Pole pole, I guess. We're going to take the candy strap, the sour candy strap, and I'm
just going to turn it and make a bit of a triangle shape. So you can see there. I'll
do that again, just turning it so that I've got a point at the top. And then I'm going
to snip it off. Now here I'm going to take some of that melted white chocolate on the
cocktail stick, just a little bit, and I'm just going to pop it in the folds there. That's
just going to act as some glue and it's going to glue our little triangle together.
Okay, so while that's been setting, I've had a bit of a tidy up, all of my mess. Now you
should have something that looks like this. It's got a little bit of an uneven edge on
it. So I'm just going to take the scissors and I'm just going to cut across. Now this
is the beginnings of your Santa hat. To put the fur around the edge of the Santa
hat and a little ball on top. So start at the ball. Now I find that the best way to
get the ball. You can find candies that are ball shape and that can sit on top or you
can use fondant. But I found the best way to do this is just to dollop in some white
chocolate into my larger -- I suppose, not the sanding sugar -- but the larger white
sprinkles and I just bury them. I literally just bury the ball of chocolate underneath
those white sprinkles and let it set. And this is what I came up with. So you'll see
there, it just sets like a ball and it's got all the lovely little white bits of Santa
hat fluff on it. To get the trim around the edge of his hat,
I simply dip the hat into the white chocolate. And you guess... Make sure you've got a nice
little, I guess, little even rim. All the way around. And from there, I'm just going
to sprinkle those lovely little white fairy bits onto that white chocolate.
Alright, firstly, before I put the ball on top, I'm going to attach the Santa hat to
the North Pole pole. Now to do this, I'm simply going to dip the pole into the white chocolate
and I'm going to pop it up into the bottom of that Santa hat. And you should have something
that looks like this. So that's actually going to sit by itself. You shouldn't really need
to hold it. It should sit, positioned in that pole nicely.
Now I'm going to slide the North Pole into the center of the cupcake, just slide it in
and go all the way down to the bottom of the cupcake. So here you've got your semi-completed
North Pole pole. We've got the little sign pointing towards
Santa's house to go with our sign for the North Pole. So I'm just going to take that
North Pole, like candy cane, and I'm just going to pop -- not too much because you want
it to dry quite quickly so you don't have to stand [there] holding it for too long.
But I'm just going to pop, like so, just a blob of our melted white chocolate glue. And
then I'm going to rest the sign up against. Now, you do want to hold that just for about
30 seconds or so just 'til that white chocolate is [tuck enough] to hold the sign so that
it doesn't slide down or goes [skew with]. If you're enjoying our tutorials, do make
sure that you subscribe. We've got lots of great Christmas stuff coming out over the
next few weeks. We upload several times a week and we've got lots of great ideas and
excellent decorations coming out. Alright, now that I'm happy that that one
has set, I'm going to attach the little ball. Now to attach the little ball, I'm just going
to -- you guessed it -- take some of that melted white chocolate glue. Pop it in through
the hole in the top or just sitting on top of that Santa hat. Little bit more on the
bottom of the fluffy ball. And I'm just going to sit that one on top. Now this one you do
really want to hold until it's set because you don't want that to go toppling off.
Alright now, while that's one technically setting -- fingers crossed it doesn't fall
off on me -- I'm going to just position the little presents. And I'm just going to stick
them into the frosting -- so one, two, a bit of a jaunty angle there, and three. You can
do four if you like but, as I said, I quite like the way three looks.
So there you have your two lovely North Pole and Santa's House cupcakes -- perfect for
your Christmas celebrations and a little bit different to a lot of the other Christmas
cupcakes that you would've seen out there. Thanks very much for watching.