Buddy the Elf Cupcakes
Buddy the Elf Cupcakes
Christmas is my absolute favourite holiday. It’s a wrap-up of a long year and a chance to wind down with your loved ones.
Like everyone, we have our traditions. One of ours is to watch Elf and bake together.
Inspired, I decided, why not bring our favourite Christmas movie to life with funfetti Buddy the Elf cupcakes?
I’ll be honest. I will watch Elf a couple of times a year. It’s just such a heartwarming story. Plus, I absolutely adore Will Farell.
He just makes me feel good and makes me laugh. No matter how many times I see him going up the escalator, saying, ‘I’m a cotton-headed ninny muggins,’ and packing spaghetti with syrup in plastic bags makes cracks me up.
If Elf is one of your holiday traditions, or you just want to make people crack up when you bring these to one of many holiday events, this is for you.
If you like this easy Buddy the Elf cupcakes recipe, you’ll love my easy no-bake Santa Belt Chocolate Oreos.
Read on for the step-by-step instructions for these adorable Buddy the Elf-inspired cupcakes!
Things You’ll Need:
- Funfetti cake mix + ingredients to make it
- Cupcake pan
- Reusable piping bag
- Round frosting tip – 1A
- Metallic green foil baking cups
- 1 stick butter, softened
- 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 2-3 tbsp milk
- 1 tsp yellow gel food coloring
- 6-7 oz. white fondant
- 1 tsp green gel food coloring
- Cornstarch for rolling
- 24 toothpicks
- 24 green M&Ms
Step 1:
Prepare the Funfetti cupcakes according to the mix’s directions. Most cake box mixes will yield 24 cupcakes.
Allow cooling before decorating.
Using an electric mixer, beat together butter, confectioners’ sugar, and milk. These ingredients will make up your buttercream frosting.
Once the ingredients start mixing smoothly, add yellow gel food coloring. Continue mixing until tinted.
Place yellow buttercream in a piping bag and frost a dollop of buttercream in the center of each cupcake. Set your piping bag aside.
Tint your white fondant with green gel food coloring and knead. You may want to put cornstarch on your fingers to keep it from sticking.
Step 2:
Tint your white fondant with green gel food coloring and knead. You may want to put cornstarch on your fingers to keep it from sticking.
Step 3:
Roll 24 fondant spheres, about 1 ½ inch in size. Once the spheres are formed, start shaping them into ELF hats.
To do so, flatten each sphere slightly than give it a point at one end.
Curve the point to give it the illusion that the hat is ‘flopping over.’ Then, flatten the bottom and give it a triangular shape.
Step 4:
Insert one toothpick in each cupcake, with about ½ an inch of it exposed. Then, insert your fondant hat through each toothpick.
Step 5:
Frost a line throughout the circumference of each hat with your yellow buttercream. Insert one green M&M on the side of the hat. Serve and enjoy!
Buddy the Elf Inspired Cupcakes
Delicious Funfetti cupcakes, topped with Buddy's elf hat. Fun, delicious, and you definitely won't be a cotton headed ninny muggins if you bring these to your events.
Ingredients
- Funfetti cake mix , + ingredients to make cupcakes (box or scratch)
- 1 stick butter, softened
- 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 2-3 tsp milk
- 1 tsp yellow gel food coloring
- 6-7 oz white fondant
- 1 tsp green gel food coloring
- Cornstarch , for rolling
- 24 toothpicks
- 24 green M&Ms
Instructions
- Prepare the Funfetti cupcakes according to the mix’s directions. Most cake box mixes will yield 24 cupcakes. Allow to cool before decorating.
- Using an electric mixer, beat together butter, confectioners’ sugar, and milk. These ingredients will make up your buttercream frosting. Once the ingredients start mixing smoothly, add yellow gel food coloring. Continue mixing until tinted.
- Place yellow buttercream in a piping bag and frost a dollop of buttercream in the center of each cupcake. Set your piping bag aside.
- Tint your white fondant with green gel food coloring and knead. You may want to put cornstarch on your fingers to keep it from sticking.
- Roll 24 fondant spheres, about 1 ½ inches in size. Once the spheres are formed, start shaping them into ELF hats. To do so, flatten each sphere slightly then give it a point at one end. Curve the point to give it the illusion that the hat is ‘flopping over.’ Flatten the bottom and give it a triangular shape.
- Insert one toothpick in each cupcake, with about ½ an inch of it exposed. Insert your fondant hat through each toothpick.
- Frost a line throughout the circumference of each hat with your yellow buttercream. Insert one green M&M on the side of the hat. Serve and enjoy!
Smiling is My Favourite
These cupcakes are sure to make anyone smile, and that is kind of the point when Christmas baking.
Am I right?
Don’t forget, if you like this easy Buddy the Elf cupcakes recipe, you’ll love my easy no-bake Santa Belt Chocolate Oreos.
Just in case you might want to make some Christmas crafts while enjoying these cupcakes, check out our Gingerbread Man Christmas Ornament, our Unicorn Christmas Ornament, and Santa S’mores Christmas Ornament.
So, put on Elf or some Christmas carols and get to baking!
What is your favourite Christmas movie?
Let me know, til then–cheers m’deres!
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Nancy Polanco is a freelance journalist, lifestyle content creator, and editor of Whispered Inspirations. She is a proud Mom to Gabby and Michaela and partner and best friend to Darasak. Having worked as part of a health care team for almost a decade, Nancy is happy to be back to her passion. She is a contributor to the Huffington Post, TODAY’s Parents, and an Oprah Magazine Brand Ambassador.
these are totally adorable!! what a clever idea. never seen cupcakes done like this before and who doesnt love buddy the elf
He is easy to love!
These are too cute! My grandkids would love helping me make these during the holiday season. Then we’d have to watch the movie, of course.
Of course!
Okay seriously adorable and so very creative! I am so impressed right now 🙂
Thank you!
What a cute name for these cupcakes. They look del and the kids would love them.
Give them a try!
How fun these are! I love Elf, it is a must watch movie each year! We haven’t watched it this year yet.
We definitely watch it every year.
Elf is my all-time favorite Christmas movie. I watch it every year with my family and we love it. This would be a fun project to do before we watch the movie.
Yes, it is so much fun. Enjoy.
These are adorable. I needed something like this for an upcoming event I needed to bring cupcakes to. Thanks for the recipe. Pinning for later.
My pleasure, hope you enjoy them.
What a fun idea! I’ll have to make these with my kids one day. We always enjoy watching Elf over the holidays.
Yes, it is a classic!
I love Elf! I need to try making these Buddy the Elf themed cupcakes soon.
Hope you like them!
Those are just adorable,kids will gooble them up !
Yes, they really would!
Stop it?! How cute are these! We need to make them.
Hehe, thanks! Enjoy. 🙂
Christmas is my favorite too!!!! And these cupcakes are too cute 🙂
Thanks! Yes, my fave movie!
We love cupcakes. These Buddy-the-elf cupcakes look so cute and colourful. Would hesitate to eat them as they look so pretty. I am sure they taste even better.
Aww, thanks for your kind words. They really are yummy!
Now those are the cutest cupcakes. I am definitely pinning this for later, thank you.
Thanks for sharing.
Now these are super cute!! And not piled high with frosting, which I am loving!!
Yes, just a little bit!
These are so cute! I love cupcakes – you can decorate them with endless possibilities.
Yes, you are right!
My kid loves decorating cupcakes. We were looking for more ideas and I am so glad to try yours! They look fabulous!
That is awesome! Let me know how it goes.
Cute! Love festive and fun cupcake recipes! I will have to make these with the kids!
Awesome, have fun.
Introduced my girl to Elf this weekend, these look great!
Awesome, hope she liked it!
My daughter would love these. She is obsessed with Elf.
That is awesome, I am too. Such a great movie.
Elf is my favourite Christmas movie. These are so cute.
Mine too!
looks and sounds delicious !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks!
These are so CUTE!! We love Elf and these would be a great treat for a fun Christmas Eve watch party!
Thanks, they really would be.