Stars: 5 out of 5
Pros: Great looking Santa decorating a cupcake
Cons: Not real
The Bottom Line:
Santa of frosting
Tips, fully displays on tree
Looks great; makes hungry
Frosting Santa
If you are decorating cupcakes for Christmas, sooner or
later, you’ll wind up making a Santa cupcake, right? That is
certainly the case for Hallmark’s Christmas Cupcake series. In fact,
in some ways, I’m surprised it took until the fifth entry to create Sweet St. Nick.
The cupcake has a plastic base that looks like a gold
cupcake foil. Peeking out of the foil is a vanilla
cupcake. But the decoration is up on top, and that part is made to
look like Santa. You’ve got red frosting for a hat and white frosting
around his face for his beard and mustache. There are even dots of
black for his eyes and a red nose. With the vanilla cupcake acting
as his skin color, you’ve got a decent looking Santa. Add in big pieces of glitter pretending to be
powered sugar, and you’ve got a delicious looking cupcake.
Now, I say frosting, but of course the truth is this
ornament isn’t made of frosting. (If it were, it wouldn’t last five
seconds.) In reality, the “frosting” is fabric, as is the cupcake in
the plastic cupcake holder. This adds a multilayered look to the
ornament that actually looks more like frosting than plastic could ever
achieve.
If you pick up this ornament looking for an exact replica of
Santa, you will be disappointed, but it very much looks like a Santa made of
frosting on a cupcake. And since that’s what the ornament is
supposed to be, I love it. It’s cute and a perfect addition to the
series.
As always, the cupcake has a flat base, so you can display
it any way you want. If you’ve been collecting the series, you could
easily set them in a pan or an actual cupcake display stand, for
example. The series marker, in this case a 5 in a Christmas tree, is
on the bottom of the cupcake as well.
However, when you go to hand this ornament on your tree,
you’ll find that it actually hangs so that Santa’s face is facing
out. This is different from the rest of the series where the
ornament hangs straight up and down. I like this look better since
it allows the “frosting,” the part that makes the ornament unique, to truly be
seen. I wish the rest of the series hung the same way. While it doesn’t match the rest of the
series, it does match a limited edition ornament of a snowman cupcake from a
couple of years back that was a compliment to this series. Anyway,
the ornament does hang by string so the ornament twists a little bit, but it
shouldn’t be too hard to make sure Santa is hanging straight on your tree.
There are several series where the creativity continues to
amaze me, and this is another one. Sweet St. Nick is a fun and
festive cupcake to add to your Christmas tree today.
Be sure to check out the rest of the Christmas Cupcakes series.
Original Price: $9.95
Be sure to check out the rest of the Christmas Cupcakes series.
Original Price: $9.95
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