Candy Cane Surprise Cupcakes!

Do you ever just had an idea for something and just did it, and had it come out pretty great? I did this past weekend and I'm pretty proud of it! Here is how I made my candy cane surprise cupcakes. You might be wondering what the surprise is. Inside of the cupcakes are...

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KISSES!

 

Ingredients:

1 box of white cake mix (and whatever is needed to make that cake)
1 can of cream cheese frosting

6 (at least) candy canes

24 Hershey Kisses (white chocolate candy cane and original were used)

 

*optional* chocolate chips for on the top of the cupcakes.

 

 

Step number one (and a very important one at that) is to turn on some good tunes.

 

 

First you'll need to mix up your cake mix as instructed on the box.

 

Put your cupcake papers in the cupcake tin and spoon only enough of your batter into each space to cover the bottoms of your papers.

 

Put your kisses in the tin then fill up the tins like you would normally. You might still see tips of the kisses sticking out but it's fine, when the batter rises you don't see it. (I used more candy cane kisses then original, it was a nice surprise to never know which one you were getting)

Pop them in the oven and onto the next step we go. This part is fun, especially when you need to relieve some stress, just don't make these when people are sleeping, this part is a bit loud. You need to put about six candy canes in a bag and smash them up as fine as you can. I didn't smash them all up as much as I should have but I now know for next time.

 

You aren't going to use all of the smashed up candy canes for the next part so leave at least a third of them out of this step. You now want to take your icing and put it in a ziploc bag then toss the 2/3 of the smashed up candy canes into it. Make sure the bag is sealed and mush it around a bunch to get it mixed well.

 

 

 

I had to do the cake baking process and everything minus the icing and candy canes twice, due to the fact my cupcake tin only was a 12 cupcake tin. Boxed cake mix will make 24 cupcakes.

When that is all done wait for the cupcakes to cool then apply the icing. The left over crushed candy canes/candy cane dust will be dumped onto the cupcakes and the optional chocolate chips will go on the cupcakes for decoration.

 

There is only one last step. It is arguably the most important step of all...

Enjoy your hard work! (and also watch and enjoy the surprise on your friend's and family's faces when they find the kiss in the middle)