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Snowball Fight Cupcakes – Stay inside where it’s warm!

January 14, 2012 This post may contain affiliate links.

 Stay inside where it’s warm and enjoy these Snowball Fight Cupcakes this winter. These treats are so easy to make using modeling chocolate and they taste great too.

Stay inside where it's warm and enjoy these Snowball Fight Cupcakes this winter. These treats are so easy to make using modeling chocolate and they taste great too.

Winter has finally arrived here. The temperature fell more than 30 degrees in one afternoon down to 20 degrees Fahrenheit and the snow began to fall shortly thereafter. We haven’t seen much of an accumulation in the past two days; only about a half and inch has fallen thus far. I suppose if I really tried, I could scrounge up enough snow to form a few snowballs, but I’d rather just stay inside and make them.

Over the past year, I have racked my brain trying to think of a clever decoration to top a cupcake and finally came up with one. It is hard to believe but this is the first cupcake posted here on Hungry Happenings. This post isn’t about a new great cupcake recipe; you can use whatever cupcake and white frosting you like.

I’ll admit when it comes to dessert, I’d pick almost anything over a cupcake. That is another reason I just haven’t been inspired to make cupcakes for this blog. I did eat one today, but will probably freeze the rest. Maybe having them lurking in my freezer will remind me to think of more decorating ideas.

Stay inside where it's warm and enjoy these Snowball Fight Cupcakes this winter. These treats are so easy to make using modeling chocolate and they taste great too.

Recently, I’ve seen some really cute indoor snowball fight crafts around the web and was inspired to transform that idea into a cupcake. I started by designing a cupcake wrapper for my snowball fight.

Then I spent hours trying to decide what to use for the snowballs. Of course I knew modeling chocolate snowballs would work, but I really wanted to use something else. So, before I made the cupcake pictured above with modeling chocolate snowballs, I experimented with a few other things. None of these ideas worked well: cotton candy (melts down to nothing after being exposed to air for about an hour,) white chocolate covered Peanut Butter Cap’n Crunch cereal (made them but they were actually way too sweet,) and tiny little cake balls (started to make them but thought they were way too much work.)

One experiment did actually worked great. I froze some white frosting, scooped out small amounts of it,  rolled it into snowballs, and topped the cupcake with a pile of them. I figured most cupcakes these days are topped with a tower of frosting, so this frosting snowball covered cupcake, pictured above, would taste about the same.

Either way you make them they are sweet and pretty easy to do.

Stay inside where it's warm and enjoy these Snowball Fight Cupcakes this winter. These treats are so easy to make using modeling chocolate and they taste great too.

If I would have wanted to brave the cold  to do some shopping today, I may have been able to find other snowball options. On-line I was able to find white malted milk balls, yogurt covered blueberries, and yogurt covered pretzel balls. All of these options would add a textural component to the cupcake that might make them a bit challenging to eat.

Of course you could just eliminate the cupcake all together and print the cupcake wrapper, wrap it around a cupcake liner, then fill  them with any of the above. I do think that is a great option, but then that would, however, defeat the purpose of me trying to share a cupcake idea with you.

Snowball Fight Cupcakes

You will need:

cupcakes
white frosting
snowballs – choose from white modeling chocolate (recipe here) or white frosting

Alternate snowballs:
white malt balls, yogurt or white chocolate covered pretzel balls, or yogurt covered fruit

snowball fight cupcake wrappers printed on white card stock – download here

 

Instructions:

Download the cupcake wrappers. Print them out on white card stock. Cut out.

Frost your cupcakes with a very thin layer of white frosting. Wrap each cupcake with a snowball fight wrapper taping the ends to secure them.

If using white modeling chocolate, pinch off small pieces, roll into snowballs, and arrange on top of frosted cupcake. My white modeling chocolate is a bit more cream colored than white, so I added some bright white coloring to make the snowballs really white.

If using any of the alternate snowballs, just pile them up on the cupcake. You can use a small amount of frosting to hold the candy in place at the top of the pile, if necessary.

If using frosting snowballs, spread frosting in a thin layer in a bowl and set in the freezer for about 30 minutes, until it is stiff enough to roll.

Scoop out small amounts of the frosting, roll into balls, place on top of a cupcake. Continue until you have a nice pile of snowballs on top of each cupcake.

Note: you will need to wipe your hands clean after each ball you roll. I wet a few paper towels, bunched them up, and used them to wipe off my hands in between each. The slight amount of water on my hands helped to keep the frosting snowballs smooth.

Update: I let one of these frosting snowball cupcakes sit at room temperature over night and in the morning the snowballs looked great. I ate it, enjoyed it, and have to say that of all the possible methods to make these, I think this is the best.

Edible Snowflakes. See all the recipes and tutorials to make snowflake cookies, cakes, popcorn, donuts, cupcakes, fudge, and more at HungryHappenings.com.

If you are looking for more snow day treat to make you might like these too.

Edible Snowflake Cupcake Wrappers • Snow Globe Cake
Hard Candy Snowflakes • Snowflake Cake
Fudge Snowflakes •  Snowman Cookies with Candy Snowflakes Inside
Winter Wonderland Popcorn •  Snowflake Doughnuts

If you recreate these Snowball Fight Cupcakes
be sure to link to this tutorial and send a picture to beth@hungryhappenings.com,
so I can  share it in my Readers’ Gallery.

Be sure to check out all my fun Christmas Recipes!

Stay inside where it's warm and enjoy these Snowball Fight Cupcakes this winter. These treats are so easy to make using modeling chocolate and they taste great too.
Print
Snowball Fight Cupcakes - Stay inside where it's warm!
Prep Time
15 mins
Total Time
15 mins
 
Cupcakes topped with candy snowballs.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: christmas themed dessert, snowball cupcake
Servings: 1
Author: Beth Jackson Klosterboer
Ingredients
  • 1 cupcakes
  • white frosting
  • 2 ounces snowballs - choose from white modeling chocolate recipe here or white frosting
Alternate snowballs:
  • white malt balls yogurt or white chocolate covered pretzel balls, or yogurt covered fruit
Instructions
  1. Spread a thin layer of frosting on the cupcakes.
  2. Print and cut out cupcake wrapper.
  3. Wrap it around the cupcake.
  4. Add modeling chocolate, frosting, or candy snowballs on top. (see tutorial for details)

Filed Under: Christmas Recipes, Holiday Treats for Kids Tagged With: Cake, Modeling-Chocolate, Winter

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Comments

  1. Anonymous

    November 12, 2012 at 4:14 pm

    Your lack of enthusiasm is amazing.

    Reply
  2. HoosierHomemade

    February 6, 2012 at 3:20 am

    Super cute! We have had hardly any snow this Winter. It's really pretty strange, but I'm not complaining!
    Thanks for sharing on Cupcake Tuesday!
    ~Liz

    Reply
  3. Julie@teachinggoodeaters

    January 27, 2012 at 11:58 pm

    What a delicious looking "snowball fight." Thanks so much for sharing at Food Adventure Friday!

    Reply
  4. Amy

    January 26, 2012 at 9:57 pm

    aDORable! What a cute idea! Thanks so much for sharing at Shine on Fridays; hope you'll be back tomorrow!

    Reply
  5. Liz G

    January 20, 2012 at 8:13 pm

    When I saw the picture, I thought the wrapper was around a bowl of cupcakes – that the snowballs were cupcake-sized cake balls. Now I am trying to plot a way to do that – lol

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      January 20, 2012 at 9:03 pm

      I think it would be fun to make a big version of this with cake balls for snowballs. There are so many ways to use this idea that would work great. If you come up with something, be sure to share it! I'd love to see pictures.

      Reply
  6. Sarah E.

    January 19, 2012 at 2:56 am

    That is so adorable! I think I may be too lazy to do all that rolling, so I might do marshmallows and sprinkle them with sugar sprinkles or glitter.

    Stopping by from Tempt My Tummy Tuesday

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      January 20, 2012 at 12:55 pm

      Yep it was a bit of rolling, but I only made 4 cupcakes, just enough to take my pictures. I think the sparkling marshmallows would work great.

      Reply
  7. The Mommies Made Me Do It

    January 19, 2012 at 12:49 am

    OMG, love this! Seriously cute and yummy-looking! I will have to try these!
    New follower here… saw you on Living Life Intentionally's FB page.

    Reply
  8. Beth (www.livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com)

    January 19, 2012 at 12:38 am

    Soooooooo clever!! LOVE THIS!!! Thanks for linking up to TGIF! Looking forward to seeing what you link up next week =-)
    Beth

    Reply
  9. Sue @ Cakeballs, cookies and more

    January 18, 2012 at 7:14 pm

    I think this is amazing, and the snow balls must taste really good!

    Reply
  10. Aunt Jo

    January 18, 2012 at 12:02 am

    Fantastic design and simple! I'm hosting an apres ski party this weekend and these cupcakes would be a real hit – even with guests who are in their 60s and older!

    Reply
  11. Christina

    January 17, 2012 at 4:40 pm

    Super cute and perfect for January! Thanks for linking up at Inspiration for Celebration. I have featured these today on my blog. You can see it here
    http://www.inspirationforcelebration.com/2012/01/snowball-fight-cupcakes-from-hungry.html
    Love all of your amazing creations!
    Christina

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      January 17, 2012 at 5:04 pm

      Thanks for the feature!

      Reply
  12. Allison @ Alli 'n Son

    January 17, 2012 at 4:20 am

    These are brilliant. So creative!

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      January 17, 2012 at 5:05 pm

      Thanks Allison!

      Reply
  13. MiaB

    January 16, 2012 at 6:41 pm

    Another great idea. I love how your snowballs are perfectly round.. I can only wish I could do that 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing your creativity with us at Sharing Saturday.

    ~MiaB
    www.mamamiasheart2heart.com

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      January 17, 2012 at 5:05 pm

      Thanks Mia, I rolled my snowballs up near my fingers which seems to help keep them round. When I roll anything in my palms it turns out more oval.

      Reply
  14. Beth Jackson Klosterboer

    January 16, 2012 at 4:07 pm

    Thanks for all the sweet comments. I've had a lot of new visitors here this week because of this post and want to welcome you all! I am so excited that my snowfall fight cupcake got featured on Cupcakes Take the Cake newsletter and website and appreciate all of you who have added pictures and links to your blogs.

    Reply
  15. Kieli_Heart

    January 16, 2012 at 1:44 am

    That's a lot more snow than we've had xD We only get flurries lol! But these cupcakes look amazing! I would eat them all up in a matter of seconds xDDD

    ~ Kieli ~

    Reply
  16. Jo and Sue

    January 16, 2012 at 12:54 am

    I'm not sure what the protocol is – I thought I would pop by and let you know that Sue & I are running a giveaway on our blog until January 22nd that anyone can enter. You host so many wonderful giveaways I thought you might want the chance to enter someone else's. I hope it is okay to post this to you…… here is the link: http://joandsue.blogspot.com/2012/01/joandsueblogspotcoms-first-giveaway.html?showComment=1326675055509#c8089753632776105678 Thanks 🙂

    Reply
  17. Lora

    January 15, 2012 at 9:40 pm

    This is absolutely darling. I love them.

    Reply
  18. Christy

    January 15, 2012 at 8:24 pm

    super duper adorable! i couldn't help myself, so i pinned them 🙂 found you through foodgawker

    Reply
  19. Lisa

    January 15, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    I'm with Beth Michelle, I thought it was a big bowl of snow balls. Then i clicked in and saw it was a cupcake! So cute!!!

    Reply
  20. Erin

    January 15, 2012 at 7:27 pm

    Oh my heck! Your cupcakes are just adorable!

    Reply
  21. themustardseed

    January 15, 2012 at 4:53 pm

    That is such a creative idea! Love it. It is a fun activity to do with kids together.

    Reply
  22. Beth Michelle

    January 15, 2012 at 4:03 pm

    These are so cute and creative!!! At first glance I didnt even realize it was a cupcake! It looks like a bowl of snowballs!

    Reply
  23. Zee

    January 15, 2012 at 11:33 am

    U always come up with very creative ideas.. Thumbs up!

    Reply
  24. Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust

    January 15, 2012 at 3:05 am

    Love this idea. It's so creative!

    Reply
  25. motherrimmy

    January 14, 2012 at 10:10 pm

    Very creative and perfect for this time of year as I'm watching it snow out my window.

    Reply
  26. Jo Andrade

    January 14, 2012 at 8:13 pm

    boa noite, nao sei como e o frio, porque aqui o minimo e 7 grau agora sua bola de neve estar linda parece mesmo uma bola.

    Reply
  27. Jo and Sue

    January 14, 2012 at 3:20 pm

    Love these! So cute!

    Reply
  28. The Partiologist

    January 14, 2012 at 2:09 pm

    Oh yea, this is my kind of snowball fight! Love'em!

    Reply
  29. Trish - Sweetology101

    January 14, 2012 at 2:07 am

    super cute! I would have no problem getting pelted with one of these!

    Reply

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