Description
Celebrate the holidays with these delightful Christmas Tree Cupcakes featuring moist vanilla cake topped with green buttercream frosting piped to resemble a festive tree, decorated with colorful sprinkles and Twizzler candy for a fun and festive treat.
Ingredients
Scale
Cupcake Batter
- 2 cups cake flour
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ cup salted butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup milk
- 3 large eggs
- ¼ tablespoon vanilla extract
Decorations
- 16 oz. green buttercream frosting
- 2-3 Twizzler Pull 'n' Peel Candy, peeled into strings
- ¼ cup sequin-style rainbow sprinkles
- star shaped sprinkles
- confectioners sugar, optional
Instructions
- Preheat and Prepare: Preheat your oven to 350 F. Line a muffin tin with cupcake liners and set aside to prepare for baking.
- Mix Dry Ingredients: In a large bowl, sift together cake flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
- Cream Butter and Sugar: In a medium-size bowl, use a mixer to cream the softened butter and granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, whisking well after each addition.
- Add Liquid Ingredients: Stir in the milk and vanilla extract and whisk until fully combined.
- Combine Batter: Gradually add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until the batter is smooth and homogenous.
- Fill Cupcake Liners: Pour the batter into the lined muffin tin, filling each liner about two-thirds full to allow room for rising.
- Bake Cupcakes: Bake in the preheated oven for 22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Cool Completely: Remove cupcakes from the oven and allow them to cool completely on a wire rack before decorating.
- Pipe Frosting: Transfer green buttercream frosting to a piping bag fitted with an open star tip. Pipe a small quarter-inch circle in the center of each cupcake, then swirl from the outside edge towards the center, overlapping slightly with each layer to create a Christmas tree shape. Finish by pushing the tip down and quickly pulling up to form the tree top.
- Decorate Trees: Wrap the Twizzler Pull 'n' Peel candy strings around the base of the frosting to simulate a tree skirt. Sprinkle rainbow sequins and place a star-shaped sprinkle on top of each tree. Optionally, dust with confectioners sugar to mimic snow.
Notes
- If you don't have a piping bag or cake decorating tools, use a small ziplock baggie with a corner snipped off to pipe the frosting.
- Make sure cupcakes are completely cooled before frosting to avoid melting the buttercream.
- Use green food coloring to tint the buttercream frosting if not already colored.
- For a gluten free version, substitute cake flour with a gluten free flour blend.
- Confectioners sugar adds a realistic snowy effect if dusted lightly over the decorated cupcakes.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 350 kcal
- Sugar: 30 g
- Sodium: 150 mg
- Fat: 18 g
- Saturated Fat: 10 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6 g
- Trans Fat: 0.5 g
- Carbohydrates: 42 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Cholesterol: 75 mg
