Kids can be jolly by making these Christmas cupcakes | New Idea

Ingredients

• CUPCAKES
• 200g unsalted butter, chopped, at room temperature
• 1 1⁄2 cups caster sugar
• 4 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 3⁄4 cups self-raising flour
• 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
• 1⁄2 cup milk
• FROSTING
• 400g unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 4 cups icing sugar mixture
• 1 tsp milk
• 1 tsp cocoa powder
• Green and peach food colouring gel
• FOR REINDEERS
• 2 x 26g Curly Wurly chocolate bars
• 8 Jaffas, 16 Milk Choc Bits
• 16 large peppermints
• FOR CHRISTMAS TREES
• 104 green M&M’s
• 8 yellow M&M’s
• 8 brown M&M’s
• FOR SANTA
• 1⁄4 cup red sprinkles
• 32 mini white marshmallows
• 16 candy eyeballs
• 8 pink jelly beans