Additional Ingredients

For the buttercream

110 grams	Butter
60 ml	Milk (Semi Skimmed)
1 tsp	Vanilla Extract (Nielsen-Massey)
500 grams	Icing Sugar (Silver Spoon Homegrown) (sifted)

Further Additional Ingredients

For the decoration

3	Orios (Regular)
3	Orios (mini)
	Desiccated Coconut
	Black Designer Icing (Silver Spoon Create)
	Silver Spoon Cakecraft Dark Chocolate Chips
	Green Food Colour (Silver Spoon Create)
	Ready to Roll Icing (Silver Spoon Create) Blue, Yellow and Orange
	Duo White Chocolate Stars (Silver Spoon Create)

How to make Erinn's Frosty Christmas Scene

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1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/Gas 4 and fill a 12 hole muffin tin with white cupcake cases.
2. In a large mixing bowl cream the butter and sugar until smooth and pale. Add the eggs one at a time mixing for a few minutes each.
3. Sift both flours into a different bowl. Put the milk in a jug and add the vanilla extract to it.
4. Add one third of the flours to the creamed mixture and beat well. Pour one third of the milk and beat again. Repeat these steps until all the flour and milk have been added. If the mixture looks a bit curdled just add a little more flour.
5. Next add the ground cinnamon to the mixture and beat well.
6. Carefully spoon mixture into the cupcake cases, filling them up to about 2 thirds full. Bake in the oven for about 25 minutes or until raised and golden brown.
7. Remove from the oven and leave in their tins for 10mins, then place them on a cooling rack and leave to cool.
8. For the icing, beat the butter, milk, half of the icing sugar and the vanilla extract until smooth. Then add the remaining icing sugar to the mix.
9. Scoop some icing onto 5 regular cupcakes and 3 mini cupcakes and smoothen. Roll the edges of these cupcakes in the coconut.
10. Stick 2 chocolate chips on each mini cupcake for eyes. Pipe small dots at the bottom of the face to make the mouth. Then place the orange triangle in the middle of the face to make the nose.
11. Stack 2 regular cupcakes and on top 1 mini cupcake to form the snowman. Repeat these steps twice more to make 3 full snowmen.
12. To make the scarf, roll out the yellow sugarpaste and cut to shape. Wrap this around 1 of your snowmen.
13. To make the ties, roll out the 2 pieces of blue sugarpaste and cut to shape of a tie. Then pipe out small orange dots with the writing pen onto the tie. Using a squirt of icing glue the ties onto the two remaining snowmen.
14. For the Oreo hats use one regular and one mini Oreo stacked on top of each other using a squirt of icing and stick onto the top of each of your snowmen.
15. For the Christmas trees add a little bit of the green colouring paste to the remaining icing and mix in. Using a star shaped nozzle pipe some of the green icing into the shape of a Christmas tree. Place the small gold stars onto the top of each tree and sprinkle some of the tiny ones around the tree.
16. Arrange the cupcakes on a large plate and finish off with a dusting of icing sugar for a snow affect.

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