These cupcake versions of a Christmas tree are simple to make and will be remembered! Simply shape your favorite cupcakes into a Christmas tree using green frosting, and then adorn with a variety of candies and sprinkles to represent the ornaments.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups vanilla frosting, divided
- 12 unfrosted cupcakes
- 2 drops green food coloring, or as needed
- ¼ cup sprinkles, colored sugar, or candies
Instructions
- 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, if needed.
- Transfer frosting to a piping bag. Working perpendicular to the top of each cupcake, pipe 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.
- You can use any colored sugar pieces to decorate the Christmas trees. White, red, or silver dragees look really nice, or any larger round sugar candies, red jelly beans, or colored sugars work.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 461 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 71 g |
| Cholesterol | 37 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 320 mg |
| Sugars | 33 g |
| Fat | 18 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
It was so fun to make and I really enjoyed it. The decorating part was the best!!!
Too much frosting in the frosting-to-cake ratio. Maybe try a whipped cream frosting that is not quite so much sugar
these came out so so so so cute! kids (and grown-ups) loved them