Santa Christmas Pull-Apart Cupcake Cake
Celebrate the holiday season with this charming Santa Christmas Pull-Apart Cupcake Cake! This festive treat features a jolly Santa face and hat crafted from soft and moist gluten-free peppermint mocha cupcakes.
Prep Time10 minutes mins
Cook Time20 minutes mins
Decorating Time10 minutes mins
Course: Dessert
Keyword: Christmas, gluten-free, grain-free, refined sugar free
Servings: 25 cupcakes
Peppermint Mocha Cupcake Ingredients
- 2.5 tbsp Lifeway Kefir Plain Organic Kefir
- 1/3 cup coconut oil melted
- 3 eggs
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp peppermint extract
- 1/4 cup cacao powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/3 cup coconut flour
Sweet Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 3 tbsp grass-fed butter melted
- 3 tbsp maple syrup
Other Ingredients
- 2 dark chocolate chips
- natural red/pink food dye
Preheat the oven to 350F. Line a mini muffin tin with 30 cupcake liners.
Blend together the kefir, coconut oil, eggs, maple syrup, and vanilla until smooth. Blend in the cacao powder, baking powder, and coconut flour.
Distribute evenly between the cupcake liners. Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
While baking, blend together the frosting ingredients. Separate into two bowls. Add a little pink to one bowl for the face, but keep the other bowl white. Place in the fridge to thicken.
Once cupcakes have cooled, arrange cupcakes as in the video. Cover the middle cupcakes with the slightly pink icing. Pipe the white around the face for the beard and fur. Dye the rest of the pink a deeper shade of pink or red for the hat. Pipe swirls on for the hat. Add a white pom pom on the hat, a pink/red mouth, white mustache, and chocolate chip eyes.