These adorable and easy snow globe cupcakes are delicious and so festive! Topped with plastic Christmas ornaments they are easy to make.

You might also like our stacked snowman sugar cookies, our peppermint bark cups, or our Little Debbie-inspired tree sugar cookies!

Watch our step by step video!

These snow globe cupcakes are so fun to make and easy, too! Most snow globe cupcakes involve making a sugar globe or gelatin-based globe. Not these ones. These are topped with a Christmas ornament, making them easy for anyone to make. I was inspired by a couple of reels that I saw on Facebook and knew I had to try making them too!

I made 24 cupcakes using a boxed cake mix and homemade vanilla buttercream. You can pipe the frosting or spread it onto the cupcakes, both ways work! I piped mine on then flattened the frosting by pressing each cupcake into the sprinkles. If you don’t want the crunch of sprinkles you can definitely leave them off and simply spread each cupcake with white frosting.

Snow Globe Cupcake Decorations

There are so many ways to decorate these. I decorated mine with white nonpareils, mini marshmallows, and snowflake sprinkles then added an edible icing topper.

You can find many cute packages of icing decorations at Walmart and Target. Just make sure that the ones you use are 1 1/2″ tall or less. Anything taller will be too tall and your dome won’t fit. If you’d prefer to use your own decorations you can pipe buttercream trees or snowmen onto the cupcake.

Snow Globe Cupcake Ornament Toppers

There are several sizes of plastic ornaments. For regular cupcakes, you’ll want ones that are 60mm in size, and can find them on Amazon. They open in half so one ornament will cover 2 cupcakes. Your cupcakes might puff up more than mine, leaving an edge that isn’t covered by the dome. That’s TOTALLY FINE and they’ll still look adorable.

Snow Globe Cupcake Ingredients

Baked Cupcakes: store-bought or homemade. I used a boxed mix which made 24. If you don’t want to make 24 cupcakes, you can freeze half to save for another day!

Buttercream Frosting: you can find my recipe at the end of the post.

Sprinkles, Nonpareils, and Mini Marshmallows: you can use whatever you’d like, but I think the nonpareils are cute and look like snow.

Icing Toppers: these are pre-made and dried icing decorations that come in a variety of designs. I used mini trees, reindeer, and presents.

How To Make Snow Globe Cupcakes

(watch my video for the best visual tutorial. It plays directly under the first image in the post)

Bake up a batch of cupcakes and let them cool completely.

(These are the cute polka dot cupcake liners that I used.)

Pipe or spread buttercream frosting onto the baked cupcakes. I used a round tip to pipe the buttercream onto mine.

Press each cupcake into sprinkles, if desired, to flatten the icing and give it a “snowy” look.

Arrange decorations onto them, pressing them into the frosting. Add mini marshmallows and snowflake sprinkles, if desired.

Cover each cupcake with half of a plastic ornament.