Holiday Rum Cupcakes

Merry Christmas eve!!  This year I decided to make rum cupcakes decorated with white chocolate snowflakes for Christmas.  Trust me these cupcakes were so easy to make!

Cake Ingredients:
1 Box Yellow Cake mix
1 cup Dark Rum
1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil
3 eggs

Frosting Ingredients:
1 stick Unsalted butter, softened
4 cups Powered Sugar
4 tbsps Milk
2 tsp Dark Rum

Place all cake ingredients in a large bowl and mix according to the directions on the box.  Then pour batter into lined muffin pans. This recipe makes about 17 cupcakes.
For the frosting place all ingredients in a large bowl beat on medium speed until combined.  Next separate frosting in half.  Then add a few drops of red food coloring to one half and green food coloring to the other half, mix well.  Next fill 2 frosting bags, one with the red and one with the green frosting.  Then place both into a third frosting bag with a piping tip, I used my favorite the Wilton 1M star tip. 

Then pipe the frosting on top of the cupcakes as you normally would.

To decorate these cupcakes I made white chocolate snowflakes.  I used white chocolate melts that you can find in most craft stores.  Once the chocolate is melted place in a ziploc bag then use scissors to snip the corner off.  Then pipe the chocolate into the molds.  Use a toothpick to make sure the whole mold is evenly filled.  Refrigerate until solid, then carefully pop them out of the mold.  Below is the mold I used, I only filled the bottom of the mold because I didn't want the backgrounds.

 

Happy Holidays!!