CHRISTMAS TREE CUPCAKES
Need a festive Christmas cupcake in a hurry? Pipe green frosting on your favorite cupcakes in the shape of a Christmas tree and decorate with an array of sweets and sprinkles as Christmas ornaments.
Provided by Kris
Categories Desserts Cakes Holiday Cake Recipes
Time 1h
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Spoon 1/2 cup vanilla frosting into a bowl. Spread a thin layer over the top of each cupcake with a knife. Refrigerate cupcakes for 30 minutes to make decorating easier.
- Combine remaining 2 cups of vanilla frosting and green food coloring in a bowl; stir until frosting is uniformly green. Add more green food coloring, 1 drop at a time, until your frosting is the color you like.
- Transfer frosting to a piping bag. Working perpendicular to the top of each cupcake, pipe the green frosting around the edge, working inwards in a circular motion to create a tree shape. Repeat with remaining cupcakes.
- Decorate Christmas trees with sprinkles, colored sugar, or candies as the "ornaments" on the trees.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 460.9 calories, Carbohydrate 70.8 g, Cholesterol 36.7 mg, Fat 18.4 g, Fiber 0.5 g, Protein 3.7 g, SaturatedFat 4.1 g, Sodium 320.1 mg, Sugar 32.6 g
CHRISTMAS TREE CUPCAKES
Provided by Food Network Kitchen
Categories dessert
Time 1h30m
Yield 12 cupcakes
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Make the cupcakes: Preheat the oven to 350˚. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper or foil liners. Whisk the flour, malted milk powder and baking soda in a medium bowl.
- Heat the milk until hot but not boiling; pour over the cocoa powder in a large bowl and whisk until smooth. Let cool slightly.
- Whisk the granulated sugar, vegetable oil, egg and vanilla into the cocoa mixture until smooth. Whisk in the flour mixture until just combined.
- Divide the batter among the prepared muffin cups. Bake until the tops spring back when gently pressed, 20 to 25 minutes. Transfer to a rack and let cool 5 minutes in the pan, then remove the cupcakes to the rack to cool completely.
- Meanwhile, make the frosting: Beat the butter, cream cheese and vanilla in a large bowl with a mixer on medium speed until creamy, 1 to 2 minutes. Gradually beat in the confectioners' sugar on medium-low speed until smooth, then increase the speed to medium high and beat until thick and fluffy, 1 to 2 more minutes.
- Spread the frosting on the cupcakes and sprinkle with white nonpareils. Stick a candy-melt tree into the center of each cupcake.
CHRISTMAS TREE MINI CUPCAKES
These are a delicious treat for the holidays, after a day the juice from the strawberry gets absorbed by the cupcake. Yummy!
Provided by britt98
Categories Desserts Cakes Holiday Cake Recipes
Time 48m
Yield 48
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease mini muffin cups or line with paper liners.
- Mix pastry flour, white sugar, and cocoa powder together in a bowl; add water, oil, and vanilla extract and blend until batter is smooth. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 8 to 12 minutes. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes.
- Mix frosting and green food coloring together in a bowl until evenly combined. Transfer frosting to a pipe bag or plastic bag with a snipped corner; refrigerate for 5 minutes.
- Squeeze a small amount of frosting onto the hulled side of each strawberry and place each onto a cupcake so the strawberry is in the shape of a tree. Pipe frosting onto each strawberry to look like leaves. Add candies to the "tree" to look like ornaments and place a star-shaped candy on top of each "tree".
Nutrition Facts : Calories 76.5 calories, Carbohydrate 12.2 g, Fat 3.2 g, Fiber 0.8 g, Protein 0.5 g, SaturatedFat 0.5 g, Sodium 9.4 mg, Sugar 8.2 g
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