Dasher Looks Dashing! Cupcakes

Want to see how easy it is to design Dasher? Mold a candy face, then pipe the body in buttercream icing on a standard cupcake! Simply dashing cupcakes are ready for your holiday celebration!

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Makes: Each cupcake serves 1.

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*Note: Combine Brown with a little Black icing color for brown shade shown on cupcake top. Combine melted Light Cocoa candy with a little Black Candy Color for shade shown on nose. Combine melted Light Cocoa candy with a little melted White candy for shade shown on antlers.

Tint portions of white candy red using candy color. Using melted red and light cocoa candy, and painting method from mold label, mold reindeer without sticks. Refrigerate until firm and unmold.

Using melted light cocoa candy in cut parchment bag, pipe dot eyes; let set.

Bake and cool cupcakes; ice smooth in white.

Using tip 12 and heavy pressure, pipe an oval-shaped body in brown. Outline and fill in an oval for tuxedo shirt (pat smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch).

Decorate tip 5 legs in brown; insert tip in body and pull out, drawing down just before edge of cupcake. Add tip 3 outline hooves. Position candy, building up icing to support.

**Brand confectionery coating.