Santa Hat Cupcakes
These Santa hat cupcakes are easy to make, cute as can be and sure to please the kids. A fun holiday treat for Christmas!

Here is another fun Christmas Cupcake decorating idea! These Santa Hat Cupcakes really easy to pull off, even with minimal piping skills making them a great option for just about anyone! These Santa Hat Cupcakes are perfect for a Christmas party desserts table. Your family will love this idea!
Everyone loves cupcakes! These Santa hat cupcakes are festive for the holiday season, but they’re also easy to make. We use pre-made cupcakes so you can use any flavour you like, homemade from scratch or from a box mix. Either works.


How to Store Frosted Cupcakes
If you have left over frosted cupcakes, or want to assemble them ahead of time, they should be stored covered in plastic wrap or in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days. If you choose to refrigerate make sure you are using an airtight container.
You can freeze the unfrosted cupcakes for up to 3 months in an airtight freezer container or resealable plastic bag if you want to get some of your baking out of the way early. Defrost at room temperature overnight before frosting.

About the Ingredients for Santa Claus Cupcakes
Cupcakes – Any type of cupcake works here. Use boxed mix or homemade. Vanilla, Chocolate or Red Velvet. It doesn’t matter. You can try my favourite chocolate cupcake recipe to make some from scratch!
Red frosting – You can colour some vanilla frosting to do this with red gel food colouring.
Mini Marshmallows – Regular or jumbo marshmallows won’t do. You really need the mini marshmallows for these cupcakes. No substitutes.

Looking for more Christmas Cupcake Ideas?
Check out some of my favourite Christmas cupcake recipes:
These sugar cookie North Pole cupcakes topped with a cute printable topper and candy cane are the perfect festive holiday treat for kids.
These Santa Claus Cupcakes are great for bringing to a Christmas party – such a fun idea to celebrate this winter holiday!
This festive and fun Christmas tree cupcakes recipe make a great treat for the holidays, featuring moist, fluffy homemade chocolate cupcakes!

Santa Hat Cupcakes
Yields: 12 Cupcakes | Prep time: 15 Mins | Cook time: 0 Mins
Ingredients:
12 cupcakes, any flavour
red frosting
mini marshmallows, cut in half
Directions:
So easy and so cute, these cupcakes only take a few minutes too. Pre-cut your mini marshmallows in half so you don’t have to keep going back and cutting more. I didn’t count them but you’ll need a lot. 😉
Attach your tip and fill your decorating bag with red frosting.

Make a circle base of frosting on your cupcake (see photo).

Next, add the mini halved marshmallows around the ring (see photo).
Then fill in the circle with frosting and go a round and a round making the Santa hat. Top with a mini halved marshmallow as the ball on top of the hat (see finished photos).
Set the cupcakes in the fridge to set up a few minutes before serving.

Santa Hat Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 12 cupcakes, any flavor but I think white or chocolate look the best
- red frosting
- mini marshmallows, cut in half
- Wilton decorating tip #32 – you really only a regular tip as you're just 'piling' the frosting to make a hat., optional but that is what I used
- disposable frosting bag
Instructions
- So easy and so cute, these cupcakes only take a few minutes too. Pre-cut your mini marshmallows in half so you don't have to keep going back and cutting more. I didn't count them but you'll need a lot. 😉
- attach your tip and fill your decorating bag with red frosting.
- Make a circle base of frosting on your cupcake (see photo). Next, add the mini halved marshmallows around the ring (see photo).
- Then fill in the circle with frosting and go a round and a round making the Santa hat. Top with a mini halved marshmallow as the ball on top of the hat (see photo).
- Set the cupcakes in the fridge to set up a few minutes before serving.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g


Another great way to decorate cupcakes for Christmas! Thanks for all the amazing ideas, I am going to have make cupcakes just so I can try them all out!
These are cute and so easy to decorate
Awww 🙂 such a great idea for a special way to decorate holiday cupcakes!
Such a creative idea! These would be just the thing we could have Christmas Eve after dinner!
This is simple, but cute! My daughter would have fun making these.
My grandson and I made these. He had a blast. He could put the marshmallows on by his self.