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What do you need to decorate Campfire Cupcakes?

• Chocolate Cupcakes
• Buttercream Icing
• Food Colouring
• Stick Pretzels
• Mini Marshmallows
• Toothpicks
• Cupcake Liners
• A Lighter
• Piping Bags
• Large Star Icing Tip
• Plastic Wrap

How to decorate Campfire Cupcakes:

• First, make cupcakes using your favourite chocolate cake recipe.
• Once the cupcakes have cooled, break pretzel sticks in half and push them into the cupcakes, creating logs for the fire. Six pretzel pieces look great.
• Using a delicious buttercream icing (our recipe is at the end of this page), create three equal portions of icing.
• Add food colouring to each portion to make one red, one orange and finally, one yellow.
• Place the colours in a single line on top of a piece of saran wrap. One line per colour, side by side.
• Carefully roll the icing into a log shape.
• Place the rolled icing into a prepared pipping bag with a large star tip.
• Carefully pipe the icing onto the cupcake and pretzels. Using a circular motion, starting wide and ending in a pointed tip.
• Now for the charming part! Place a mini marshmallow onto the end of a toothpick and then carefully toast them to create a roasted marshmallow look. Perfect for making tiny s’mores!
• Finally, stick the cute mini marshmallow sticks into the campfire cupcakes to complete these adorable long weekend cupcakes!!

Amazing Campfire Cupcakes

First, make cupcakes using your favourite chocolate cake recipe. We like this one from Vegan Huggs. While they are baking and cooling, let’s begin to make the fiery icing!

Using a delicious buttercream icing (our recipe is at the end of this page), create three equal portions of icing. Add food colouring to each portion to make one red, one orange and finally, one yellow. We strongly recommend using gel colouring over the liquid type. The gel will give more vibrant colours and will not change the consistency of the icing.

Place the colours in a single line on top of a piece of saran wrap. One line per colour, side by side.

Carefully roll the icing into a log shape.

Place the rolled icing into a prepared pipping bag with a large star tip.

Getting back to the cupcakes! Once the cupcakes have cooled, break pretzel sticks in half and push them into the cupcakes, creating logs for the fire. Six pretzel pieces look great.

Once the pretzel sticks are in place, carefully pipe the icing onto the cupcake. Using a circular motion, starting wide and ending in a pointed tip.

Now for the charming part! Place a mini marshmallow onto the end of a toothpick and then carefully toast them to create a roasted marshmallow look. Perfect for making tiny s’mores!

Finally, stick the cute mini marshmallow sticks into the campfire cupcakes to complete these adorable long weekend cupcakes!!

Do you love these Charming Campfire Cupcakes as much as we do? Need more camping ideas, certainly try our Campfire Rotini Pasta, perfect for making at the campsite.

Buttercream Icing

July 9, 2023

by Vicki Tharakan

Cuisine Dessert

Category Summer Long Weekends

Prep Time

15 minutes

Total Time

15 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 Cup Butter
• 2 Tsps Vanilla
• 4 Cups Icing Sugar
• 3 Tbsps Milk

Instructions

• Use an electric mixer to beat the butter until light and fluffy, 1-2 minutes. Add the vanilla flavour and mix well.
• Add the icing sugar, one cup at a time.
• Add milk and mix until thoroughly combined.

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Baking,

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Cupcakes,

Dessert,

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Summer long weekend,

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There are so many tried and true recipes that are an annual must make. But every year we try a couple new recipes and this year we picked Natural Peanut Butter Snowballs to try out. In our homes we use natural peanut butter, so we used that to make these treats – and it worked perfectly – which gave us the natural title. They could really be considered more of a candy than baking really, but that doesn’t make them any less fun or tasty! The result? Amazing! A contender to be added to the yearly bake list.

What you’ll need:

• Powered sugar
• All natural peanut butter (we used one that has honey mixed in which worked perfectly!)
• Butter, melted
• Graham cracker crumbs
• Honey
• Salt
• White chocolate or dark chocolate, melted
• Grapeseed oil
• Sprinkles
• Parchment or wax paper
• Mixer

Natural Peanut Butter Snowballs

Line a baking sheet with parchment or wax paper.

In a mixing bowl combine powdered sugar, natural peanut butter, melted butter graham crackers crumbs, honey, and salt. Mix until smooth and thoroughly combined.

Use a tablespoon and your hands to form the dough into balls and place them onto the prepared baking sheet.

In a medium bowl, mix together melted chocolate and oil, stirring until smooth.

Working fairly quickly, use two forks to dip the peanut butter balls in the chocolate, turning until fully covered. Drip excess back into the bowl and then transfer back onto the baking sheet.

Top with sprinkles as you go. Decorating as you work will allow for the sprinkles to stick to the chocolate before it begins to harden.

Place the baking sheet in the refrigerator for 20 minutes until the chocolate is fully set.

Print

Natural Peanut Butter Snowballs

An easy, no bake treat made with natural peanut butter that is sure to become a family favourite!

Course Dessert

Cuisine Canadian

Keyword Chocolate, Christmas, dessert, peanut butter, sweet

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 0 minutes

Fridge Time 15 minutes

Total Time 35 minutes

Servings 24 Snowballs

Calories 220kcal

Cost $25

Equipment

• Mixer
• Baking tray
• Parchment or wax paper
• Mixing bowls

Ingredients

• 2 cups Powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 cups Natural peanut butter
• 1/3 cup Butter melted
• 2/3 cup Graham cracker crumbs
• 1 tbsp Honey
• 1 tsp Salt
• 2 pkgs White and/or dark chocolate melted
• 2 tsp Grape seed oil coconut oil or nut oils can be used instead
• Sprinkles

Instructions

• Line a baking sheet with parchment or wax paper.
• In a mixing bowl, combine powdered sugar, natural peanut butter, melted butter, graham cracker crumbs, honey and salt. Using a mixer, mix until smooth and thoroughly combined.
• Use a spoon and your hands to form the dough into balls about the size of a ping pong ball and place onto the prepared baking sheet.
• In a separate bowl, mix together the melted chocolate and oil and stir until smooth.
• Use two forks to dip the balls into the chocolate and roll to cover completely. Place the covered snowballs back onto the baking sheet.
• Top with sprinkles and refrigerate for 15 minutes.

We hope you love these Natural Peanut Butter Snowballs! If you’re looking for some more fun activities for the whole family check out our list of the best Christmas Kids crafts and our ultimate Christmas movie checklist with free printable!

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What You’ll Need:

• Ice Cream Cone Template
• Plain apron
• Felt in Tan, Blue and White
• Iron on adhesive
• Embroidery thread in Brown and five other bright colours
• Iron
• Scissors
• Needle
• One pink pom pom
• Glue
• Pencil and/or marker

How to Make an Ice Cream Cone DIY Apron

Firstly, print and cut out the ice cream cone template, separating the ice cream from the cone.

Secondly, trace the cone template onto the tan felt…

And the ice cream templates onto the blue and white felt and then cut out the traced shapes.

Use the brown thread to make waffle cone lines on the tan felt. Start by marking the lines on the wrong side of the cone with a marker and then sewing lines, following the dotted pattern.

Make coloured sprinkles in the white felt by sewing small double lines in random places all over the ice cream dome.

We made 3-5 sprinkles per colour.

Trace and cut out each piece of felt from the iron-on bonding paper.

Follow the directions of the bonding paper. Usually, the first step is to iron the clear, ‘bumpy’ side of the bonding to the wrong side (the side without the embroidery) of the felt. Hold an iron (do not use steam) over the felt and press and hold until the bond has taken.

Then peel the paper backing off and lay it onto the apron. Press with the iron until bonded. Try not to rub the iron back forth too much.

Finally, glue the pom pom in place on the top of the ice cream cone.

And it’s done – ready to wear for some BBQ fun! Hosting a party to show off your new Ice Cream Cone DIY Apron? Certainly try some of these summer long weekend recipes – Strawberry Rhubarb Cocktail, the Ultimate List of Summer Dessert Ideas, and the Ultimate List of Summer Dinner Ideas.

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To prepare the bottle for gifting, layer the following ingredients into a 1 qt glass milk bottle or mason jar:

• 1/2 cup Flour
• 1/4 tsp Salt
• 1/2 cup Brown sugar
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1/3 cup Cocoa
• 1/4 cup Chocolate chips
• 1 cup Caramel chips
• 1/4 cup Chopped pecans or walnuts

Write the remaining ingredients and baking instructions on a tag and then attach it to the bottle with some decorative twine or ribbon.

• 3 eggs
• 2/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 tsp vanilla 

Add some Valentine’s Day ribbon or stickers to decorate the brownies in a bottle and then gift to friends and family to sweeten their day. Happy crafting!

For more Valentine’s inspiration check out some of our other easy DIY decorations with our easy heart puzzle or our yarn and felt wreath.

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