REINDEER GAMES

This is the perfect season to whip up these exciting goodies with the kiddies. It's simple, fun, easy, and quite inexpensive, too. Family boding activities will certainly make you more rein-dearing to your kids (see how I injected some Christmas humor in there?)

You can opt to bake your own cupcakes (Betty Crocker’s Super Moist Cake Mix in Devil’s Food flavor is a great choice), or if you’re in a hurry for the party, grab a dozen plain chocolate cupcakes at the nearest bakeshop. If you're in the U.S., Sprinkles (sprinkles.com) is my personal favorite and is a no-fail choice. If you're in Manila, we always go to Coco Cakes (facebook.com/cococakes) for our cupcake/cake/cake pops needs, and to Slice in High Street. 

Santa’s Reindeer

Ingredients:

1 bag of Peanut M&M’s

1 jar of peanut butter

1 bag of chocolate covered pretzels

confectioner’s sugar 

6 chocolate cupcakes

Instructions:

1. If you’re making your own cupcakes, bake a dozen as directed in the cake mix packaging. Let it cool.

2. Use a knife to evenly coat each cupcake with a tablespoon of peanut butter.

3. Take a pretzel and break one of its curves so that one end will have a pointed edge, which will be inserted into the cupcake. Attach a whole pretzel to the horn using some peanut butter. For baby horns, use half a pretzel.

4. To create tiny ears, break a pretzel curve and insert it into the cupcake at the side of the reindeer horns.

5. For the eyes, take some colored peanut M&M’s and gently place them on the peanut butter icing. The red or brown peanut M&M’s can serve as the nose.

6. Lightly sprinkle your reindeer with confectioner’s sugar for a final touch of “snow.”

You can also find this recipe and others at BC Magazine US and Philippines.