Christmas Cupcakes

Bake these festive eggless Christmas cupcakes using just two ingredients: white cake mix and lime soda. Add red and green food coloring for a holiday touch, and decorate with Santa-themed toppers to delight your guests.

Prep Time15

Cook Time18

Cooling Time10

Total Time43

Method: Baking

Course: Cupcakes

Servings: 15 Cupcakes

Ingredients

32 oz white cake mix 1 packet, regular size
1 and ½ cups Lime Soda any lime/lemon - I used Mountain Dew
a few drops Food Coloring red and green

Instructions

Preheat oven at 350F/180C. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners and lightly grease it with non-stick cooking spray.
In a large bowl beat together the cake mix and soda. Beat for about a minute and a half. Divide the batter into 3 portions. Mix in red food coloring in portion, green in one portion and leave the other one as it is for white color.
Fill each cup with a tablespoon of batter of each color. Each muffin cup should be about ⅔rds full. Bake it for about 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Cool the cupcakes in the pan for at least 10 minutes before removing it out of the pan. Let the cupcakes cool completely before you can frost it.

Notes

I felt that the cupcakes were too light, tender that it might not hold it's shape if it is baked as a cake and you intend to slice it, make shapes out of it etc. For cupcakes it should not be a very big problem because you are not going to slice it. Actually even for that a few of the cupcakes were sort of lightly crumbly. I'm guessing it is because of the soda. The next time I follow this recipe I'm going to try reducing the quantity of soda and see if it's better, especially for making cakes.
The above recipe is for 1 pack. I used 2 packs of white cake mix to make 24 regular size cupcakes. I was able to get additional 12 mini cupcakes for the remaining batter.
I did not have the proper red food color so it looked more like pink than red once the cupcakes were baked.
For the Santa Claus decoration idea: I used store bought icing to frost the cupcakes. But if you want to make you own you can try this Vegan Buttercream frosting or vegan cream cheese frosting.

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