Christmas Tree Tear & Share Cupcakes
These Christmas Tree Tear and Share Cupcakes are so festively and delicious. I made the cupcakes vanilla with vanilla buttercream but if you want to be super festive you could make gingerbread cupcakes
Servings: 12 cupcakes
Ingredients
For the Cupcakes
- 145 g Caster Sugar
- 145 g Unsalted Butter or Stork
- 145 g Self-Raising Flour
- 3 Large Eggs
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
For the Decoration
- 600 g Icing Sugar
- 300 g Unsalted Butter
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 tbsp Cocoa Powder
- Green Food Colouring
- Red Food Colouring
- 3-4 tsp Milk (optional)
- Sprinkles
Instructions
To Make the Cupcakes
- Preheat the oven to 180C/160 Fan. Line a muffin tray with cupcake liners and leave to one side.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
- Add in the flour, eggs, baking powder and vanilla and whisk until all combined.
- Spoon the mixture into the cupcake liners. I use a small ice cream scoop to do this so I know that they are all even.
- Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes. You will know the cupcakes are ready when they are golden brown and springy to the touch.
To Make the Buttercream
- While the cupcakes are cooling make the buttercream.
- In a bowl mix together the icing sugar, butter and vanilla until it is smooth.
- Remove 100g and put into a separate bowl. Add the red food colouring and mix until you reach the desired colour. Place the red buttercream in a piping bag and leave to one side.
- Remove another 100g of the white buttercream and place into a separate bowl. Add 1 tbsp of cocoa powder and mix until it is all combined. Place the chocolate buttercream into a piping bag and leave to one side.
- Add green food colouring to the remaining buttercream and mix until you reach the desired consistency. Put the green food colouring into a piping bag and leave to one side.
To Decorate
- Arrange your cupcakes into a Christmas tree shape. I started with 1 at the top then 2, then 3 and then finally 4 cupcakes on the bottom row. I then placed the remaining 2 cupcakes at the bottom for the tree trunk.
- Pipe the green buttercream onto the Christmas tree.
- Pipe the red buttercream on in lines just like tinsel.
- Pipe the chocolate buttercream onto the tree trunk.
- Decorate with sprinkles.