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Need a festive (and delicious) treat that is pretty simple to create and spreads instant holiday cheer!? How about Santa hat cupcakes!?
Today I’ve got a yummy recipe for red velvet cupcakes and cream cheese frosting, both using Truvia® Sweeteners. Plus, there’s a quick, easy, 3-step tutorial for how to turn them into everyone’s favorite jolly accessory! 😉
If you have older kiddos, this would be a great family baking project to do together, or make them on your own and surprise the littlest ones with your magic!
Check out the how-to below!
How To Make Red Velvet Cupcakes with Truvia® Sweet Complete™ All-Purpose Sweetener
It felt like a Santa themed cupcake simply had to be red velvet. Right!?
For this red velvet cupcake recipe, I used Truvia® Sweet Complete™, an all-purpose stevia sweetener that bakes and browns in recipes and sweetens and measures like sugar. It’s simply a 1:1 ratio, which makes it super easy to swap in to other recipes you want to try, too!
You can view the full recipe at the bottom of this post, but here’s what you’ll to make these red velvet cupcakes:
- All-purpose flour
- Cocoa Powder
- Baking Soda
- Salted Butter
- Truvia® Sweet Complete™ All-Purpose Sweetener
- Eggs
- Vanilla Extract
- Red Food Coloring
- Milk or milk alternative (I used a plant-based milk alternative)
- Distilled White Vinegar
For the cream cheese frosting (my favorite!), I used Truvia® Confectioners Sweetener. Similar to Truvia Sweet Complete™, it’s a stevia sweetener that sweetens and measures like traditional confectioners sugar in recipes! It’s great for frostings, glazes, etc!
Here’s what you’ll need to make this cream cheese frosting:
- Cream cheese
- Salted butter
- Vanilla
- Truvia® Confectioners Sweetener
- Red food coloring
How to Pipe Santa Hat Cupcake Frosting
First, you’ll need to separate out your frosting as you’ll need about 1/4 of your batch to remain white, and the rest dyed red!
You can use a large star tip or a regular round tip to pipe these – I used a star tip. If you don’t have a piping bag or any tips, you can also just use a plastic bag and trim the corner off!
Here’s how to pipe Santa hat cupcakes:
1. Start in the center of your cupcake and pipe the red frosting in a spiral motion, gradually narrowing the spiral as you move upward and end with a peak.
2. Pipe dots of white frosting around the base of your red frosting.
3. Finish the Santa hats with a dot of white frosting on top!
More Christmas Recipes
- Ugly Christmas Sweater Cake
- Tie Dye Yule Log Cake
- Technicolor Christmas Tree Cookie Bars
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Crispy Candies
- DIY Reindeer + Snowman Ice Cream Cones
Photos by Jeff Mindell
Perhaps we should leave cupcakes for Santa this year instead of cookies!? Another thought starter: use this same concept but with green frosting and turn them into Christmas trees!!!
Happy Baking!
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Red Velvet Cupcakes with Truvia®
Red velvet cupcakes and classic cream cheese frosting, both sweetened with Truvia®!
Prep Time30 minutes mins
Cook Time20 minutes mins
Servings: 12 Cupcakes
Ingredients
For the Red Velvet Cupcakes
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 Tbsp cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 cup butter (room temperature)
- 1 cup Truvia® Sweet Complete
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup milk or milk alternative
- 1 tsp distilled white vinegar
- Red food coloring
For the Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter (room temperature)
- 8 oz cream cheese (cold)
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 cups Truvia® Confectioners Sweetener
Instructions
Red Velvet Cupcakes
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and cocoa powder.
In a large bowl, beat the butter and Truvia® Sweet Complete until fluffy, about 2-3 minutes.
Beat in the eggs, one at a time, until combined.
Beat in vanilla extract.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the milk and vinegar.
Beat in the flour mixture in a few additions, alternating with the milk mixture, until just combined.
Add food coloring as desired and beat to achieve red color. The amount will vary based on your food coloring!
Fill prepared muffin tins, each about 2/3 full.
Bake for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Allow cupcakes to cool before frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting
Using an electric or hand mixer, beat the butter and cream cheese until fluffy.
Beat in the vanilla.
With the mixer on low, slowly add the Truvia® Confectioners into the mixture. Beat until smooth.
Remove 1/4 of the frosting from the mixer and set aside. Then, add red dye to the reamining frosting as desired and beat until incorporated.
Assembling the Santa Hat Cupcakes
Spoon the red frosting into a piping bag fitted with a star tip (or other tip as desired).
Start in the center of your cupcake and pipe the red frosting in a spiral motion, gradually narrowing the spiral as you move upward and end with a peak.
Spoon the white frosting into a piping bag fitted with a star tip (or other tip as desired).
Pipe dots around the red frosting swirl, and one on top to finish the hat!
Notes
Truvia Sweet Complete All-Purpose Sweetener contains chicory root fiber. This recipe has 5g of dietary fiber per one cupcake serving.
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