Pilgrim Hat Cupcakes

These cute pilgrim cupcakes were way to cute to pass up!

It’s your basic white cupcake topped with classic buttercream (conveniently reduced to just two servings because someone (cough, cough, me) has had way too much cupcakes lately) and then decorated with a cute yet simple, and edible pilgrim hat! What a cute and kid friendly dessert for the most important day in November!

Note: I tinted my frosting yellow but you could also use fall colored sprinkles and decorate the top of your cupcakes before topping with the ‘hat’. You could also ‘cheat’ and buy store bought fall decorated cupcakes and just top with the hats for extra cuteness. 

Pilgrim Hat Cupcakes
Printable Version

Prepared white cupcakes (recipe follows or use your favorite!)
Buttercream frosting (recipe follows or use your favorite!)
Fudge Stripe Cookies
Mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Yellow tubed decorator’s frosting

Put a dot of frosting on the top of the peanut butter cups. Adhere the cup to the bottom side of the fudge cookie.

Frost each of the cupcakes with buttercream frosting.

Using yellow tubed decorator’s frosting, pipe on the buckle and the base of the hat. Put one cookie on each cupcake.

adapted from Taste and Tell Blog

One Bowl Vanilla Cupcakes for Two
Printable Version
Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 12 minutes Serves 2

1 egg white
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1/4 cup flour
1/4 heaping teaspoon of baking powder
pinch of salt
1 1/2 tablespoons milk

Buttercream frosting, for decorating (recipe below)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a muffin pan with 2 liners.

In a bowl, add egg white and sugar and whisk until combined. Add in vanilla, almond extract and melted butter and stir until mixed. Add flour, baking powder and salt and stir until smooth. Stir in milk. Divide batter equally between the 2 cupcake liners.

Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes, or until cake is set. Let cool completely, then frost as desired.

adapted from How Sweet It Is and Hungry Housewife

Classic Buttercream Frosting for Two Cupcakes
by Heather of Kitchen Concoctions: www.kitchen-concoctions.com
Prep Time: 10 minutes Makes approximately 1 cup frosting

3 tablespoons butter, softened
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 tablespoons milk
1 1/3 cup powdered sugar

Cream the butter and vanilla extract. Slowly add the powdered sugar one cup at a time alternating with the milk, mixing until desired consistency is reached.