Christmas cupcakes in all sorts of fabulously elegant flavours and wonderfully cute designs are a super easy way to whip up a show stopping Christmas dessert and centrepiece for your Christmas table.
And I have for you here a collection of the very best Christmas cupcake flavours and design ideas including :
- Classic Christmas cupcake flavours
- Beautifully boozy Christmas cupcake flavours for grown ups
- Elegant Christmas cupcake designs for a stunning Christmas table
- PLUS cute Christmas cupcake decorations kids will devour!!
You’ll find everything from candy cane and champagne flavours to adorable snowmen designs …
Classic Christmas Cupcake Flavours For All The Family
Seriously show stopping and scrumptious Christmas cupcakes are super easy to whip up in your family’s favourite Christmas flavours :
- Candy Cane
- Gingerbread
- Chocolate Cherry
- Eggnog
- Black Forest
- Hot Chocolate
- Chocolate Orange
- White Chocolate
- Cranberry.
Candy Cane Cupcakes
These super pretty candy cane Christmas cupcakes have a rich chocolate base and are decorated with candy cane flavoured buttercream and smashed candy cane sprinkles …
Gingerbread Cupcakes
If you’re gingerbread fans you’ll love these adorable gingerbread Christmas cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and tiny little gingerbread men …
Or for an even warmer, spicier flavour try this recipe with cinnamon flavoured browned butter frosting …
Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes
These chocolate Christmas cupcakes are transformed with half and half whipped and cream cheese icing plus luscious preserved cherries …
Eggnog Christmas Cupcakes
Delicious eggnog flavour Christmas cupcakes with cinnamon frosting …
Black Forest Cupcakes
Black Forest cheesecakes and trifles make stunning Christmas desserts but for all the flavour without the fuss make these Black Forest cupcakes that will still look wonderfully elegant on your Christmas table …
Hot Chocolate Cupcakes
These creamy hot chocolate flavoured Christmas cupcakes complete with whipped cream and marshmallow topping have all the ingredients for a new family Christmas tradition …
Chocolate Orange Cupcakes
If like me you love chocolate orange flavours at Christmas you’ll adore these chocolate orange Christmas cupcakes topped with candy peel …
White Chocolate Cupcakes
These little white chocolate Rudolf cupcakes are unbelievably cute and come with a secret shot of orange from marmalade hidden inside …
Cranberry Cupcakes
These white chocolate cranberry flavour Christmas cupcakes look gorgeous topped with sugared cranberries and have tangy cranberry puree snuck inside …
Boozy Christmas Cupcake Flavours For Grown Ups
Whatever your fave tipple I’ve got a gorgeously grown-up booze flavoured Christmas cupcake for you:
- Cassis
- Champagne
- Baileys Chocolate
- Maple Whisky
- Jack Daniels Honey Whisky
- Vanilla Bourbon Spice
- Mulled Wine
- Blackberry Gin Gimlet
- Fireball
Cassis Christmas Cupcakes
Beautifully boozy cassis flavoured chocolate Christmas cupcakes decorated with gorgeously rich blackberry buttercream …
Champagne Cupcakes
What could be more elegant than these champagne flavoured Christmas cupcakes with champagne meringue frosting … ?
Baileys Chocolate Cupcakes
Wonderfully decadent chocolate Christmas cupcakes topped with whipped cream frosting laced with generous lashings of Baileys cream:
Maple Whisky Cupcakes
If whisky’s your thing you’ll love these Christmas cupcakes with whisky flavoured buttercream frosting and a secret maple syrup and whisky filling …
Jack Daniels Honey Cupcakes
Or if it has to be Jack Daniels try these simple little Christmas cupcakes topped with a thick layer of classic butter cream icing flavoured with Jack Daniels Tennessee honey whisky …
Bourbon Spice Cupcakes
These bourbon flavoured Christmas cupcakes look adorable with tiny gingerbread cookies tucked in their cinnamon cream cheese frosting …
Mulled Wine Cupcakes
If spicy mulled wine is a big Christmas tradition in your family, you’ll love these mulled wine Christmas cupcakes decorated with orange slices …
The cupcakes would make lovely Christmas table decor with dried orange Christmas ornaments or a dried orange garland.
Blackberry Gimlet Cupcakes
These fabulously indulgent gin flavoured cupcakes are made with gin AND then soaked in a gin syrup before being topped with blackberry butter cream icing …
Fireball Christmas Cupcakes
These Christmas cupcakes and their butter cream topping are flavoured with a winter warming Fireball cocktail of whisky, cinnamon & a pinch of cayenne pepper!!
Showstoppingly Elegant Christmas Cupcake Designs
Christmas cupcakes truly can be showstoppers on the Christmas table and are easier to pull off than a big Christmas cake or dessert.
These elegant Christmas cupcake designs are stunning but simple.
- Christmas Baubles
- Winter Wonderland
- Christmas Tree
- Snowflakes
- Sparkling Gold
- Winter Berries
- Perfect Pink
- Pretty Pastels
Bauble Cupcake Designs
These amazing Christmas cupcakes in a bauble design are surprisingly doable with the step-by-step guide:
Alternatively you can create this elegant Christmas bauble design simply by popping a macaroon on top of your cupcake frosting …
Winter Wonderland Design
The coconut frosting on these Christmas cupcakes gives gleaming white snow for little tree toppers …
Christmas Tree Design
This elegant Christmas tree design uses a must know Christmas cupcake decoration hack – there’s an ice-cream cone under the icing!!
Snowflake Design
Tiny iced shortbread or sugar cookie snowflakes make a simply elegant design for simple Christmas cupcakes …
Sparkling Gold Design
These little Champagne cupcakes are stunners with nothing more than than great gold cupcake papers and sparkly gold sprinkles …
Winter Berries Design
This winter berries design for your Christmas cupcakes couldn’t be simpler. Just pop berries or sugar fruit on top of your icing around a little rosemary tree …
Perfect Pink Design
As Charlie & Lola knew everyone loves pink icing and these perfect little cupcakes are super pretty topped with smashed candy cane sprinkles and tiny peppermint thins:
Pretty Pastel Designs
Gorgeous Christmas cupcake designs don’t have to be all about big bold Christmas colours, delicate pastels look lovely too …
Cute Christmas Cupcake Decorations Kids Love
When decorating Christmas cupcakes with tiny kids, we need to be realistic: stick to snowy frosting & cool toppers!
But older kids can easily help – or pull off on their own – these super cute Christmas cupcake decorations :
Snowman Cupcakes
All you need for these delightfully cute snowman decorations are marshmallows and icing pens …
Christmas Tree Cupcakes
These Christmas tree cupcake decorations use the clever ice-cream cone hack we saw earlier …
These ones have obviously been quite expertly piped but kids can have great fun decorating them with less skill or just a pallet knife.
Gingerbread House Cupcakes
Full-scale gingerbread houses need – in my experience – patience, nerves of steel and lots of red wine!!
These adorably cute little gingerbread house cupcake decorations are an easier option …
Rudolf Christmas Cupcakes
For super sweet – super easy Christmas cupcake decorations, these Rudolf’s take some beating.
They are just quickly piped – or even dolloped – chocolate butter cream frosting topped with pretzels, edible eyes and red smarties …
And these Rudolf Christmas cupcakes are even quicker to decorate. Simply spread chocolate icing and add tiny wafers for muzzles if you can find any …
Santa Christmas Cupcakes
If you’re quite confident with your cupcake decoration skills you can ice Santa faces on your cupcakes …
But if you are not or are just short on time you can decorate your cupcakes with these cute little Santa hats quickly and easily …
Polar Bear Cupcakes
These polar bear Christmas cupcake decorations are unbelievably cute but simple. Even younger kids can sprinkle coconut on top of frosting and use an icing pen and black fondant to add a face …
If like me you have a child who hates coconut the decorations still look cute with plain white fondant.
Christmas Wreath Cupcakes
These delightfully dainty Christmas wreath cupcake decorations would look really pretty on the Christmas table and are a wonderful decorating project for older kids and teens who are into doing delicate detail …
Christmas Gift Cupcakes
These Christmas gift cupcake decorations are a surprisingly quick winner when stress levels are high. You just need to cut out fondant strips and use this super speedy tutorial to make cupcake bows …
More Christmas Cupcake Flavours & Designs
For even more amazing Christmas cupcake flavours, designs and decorations check out my Christmas Cupcake board on Pinterest …
And for more simple but stunning ideas for Christmas food check out these scrumptious collections …
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Rita says
Can I have the christmas cupcakes recipes please
Alice says
Hi Rita – you should be able to click on the links to each of the individual cupcake recipes. Give me a shout if that’s not working for you, best wishes Alice