Can you smell the aroma of freshly baked cakes and cookies? I can. Oh mumma is baking fresh cakes for Christmas! Yes it is again that time of the year when everyone is busy baking fresh cakes and cookies. I went to my friend’s house last day and her mother gave us some Christmas themed cupcakes. She made some yummy Santa hat cupcakes. They were normal cupcakes with red frosting in shape of Santa’s hat and white frosting on the sides and the top.

This weekend my friends are going to come over to my place for the Christmas party. We will also make some Christmas themed cakes for our guests. Mumma will make a big Christmas cake and I will make cupcakes for my friends. Last night I told mumma that even I want to make some Christmas themed cakes for my friends; she said she recently came across an article that discussed about various Christmas cupcake decorations, so she will surely help me decorate the cupcakes.

Here are some ideas that she shared with me:

1. Peppermint Candy Cane Cupcakes

It is much like marble cake but instead of the chocolate flavour, you need to use red colour batter with white batter. Then top them with white frosting; freeze them for an hour and then dip them in white molten chocolate. Crush some peppermint candies and sprinkle on top of the chocolate coated frosting and insert candy canes from the top. That’s all, you’re done.

2. Snowman Cupcakes

For snowman cupcakes, you need normal cupcakes, Oreo cookies, marshmallow and peppermint sprinkles. To create the hat, cut the bottom quarter of a large marshmallow and place it on the Oreo cookie. Attach it with help of candy melts. Once it gets attached dip the entire thing into molten dark chocolate. Sprinkle some peppermint and let it cool. Get some candy eyes and cherry sour candies for the nose. Once the hats are ready, cover the cupcakes with white frosting and place the hats, eyes and nose carefully.

3. Ginger Bread Cupcakes

Christmas is incomplete without ginger bread, so you can try this out. Make some spicy cup cakes (ones that are made using ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves) and let it cool. Buy some gingerbread cookies in various shapes – stars, bells, snowflakes, etc. You can also make them at home if you how to make them. Decorate the cup cakes with cinnamon flavoured frosting and place the gingerbread cookies on top of each cake. Use a portion of the same frosting to decorate the cookies as well.

There are many more Christmas themed cakes that you can make at home – Christmas tree, reindeer, Santa hat and lots more. So if you’re done with decorating the Christmas tree, take time to make some cupcakes that not only look great but taste yum! Share your recipes and share pictures of the homemade cakes! Merry Christmas to everyone and have as much fun as you can!

Have you started decorating the Christmas tree? Decorating the Christmas tree is one of the most exciting things during this time; I was so excited when I visited to local Christmas market. Christmas trees of various sizes, a wide variety of decorative items, goody bags and a lot more. It looked so colourful that I wanted to buy everything I saw. We bought a lot of decorative items and a big Christmas tree. Dadda would help us decorate the tree during the weekend and our house will be all set for the Christmas!

This year we wanted to decorate the Christmas tree in a new way, so we did some research on the Internet. There were a numerous Christmas tree decoration ideas, but not all were impressive. I loved a few and I would love to share them with you. Here are some unique Christmas tree decoration ideas that you can try this year:

The Santa Look-Alike

Decorating the Christmas tree in St. Nick’s style is very unique and I haven’t seen too many people decorate the tree this way. Decorate the entire tree with white and red ornaments including candy canes, Christmas balls, stars, bells and ribbons. Cover the entire tree with lighting and top it with fur-trimmed hat. Place the Christmas tree close to the fireplace and hang some Christmas stockings on top of the fireplace. Place a bunch of poinsettias to enhance the look. I will decorate my Christmas tree this way and I am sure our guests will love it.

Here is how the Christmas tree will look after decorating it.