Create Your Own (Edible) Winter Wonderland With These Adorable Christmas Tree Cupcakes

Baking holiday treats can be a fun, delicious, and stress-relieving way to celebrate Christmas. While I love my grandma's fudge and my aunt's chocolate oatmeal cookies, I've always been one to enjoy making specialty cupcakes. From the colourful frosting to the fun decorations, there's so much you can do to take regular cupcakes from boring to beautiful. So when I came across these easy Christmas tree cupcakes, I knew I had to make them for myself! This recipe yields six cupcakes, but I made more, because why not? Not only are they delicious to eat, but they're also really pretty to look at and can make the perfect dessert table centrepiece for the holidays.

The best part about this recipe is the decoration options because you can completely customise how to decorate your "tree." As the recipe page says, by making the cupcakes with a boxed mix, you can spend more time decorating, which I was all for, but feel free to use your own cupcake recipe if you prefer. After making these cupcakes, I went with a winter wonderland theme by adding icing sugar that looks like snow. To make the wonderland look even more realistic, you can also add gingerbread houses to make your own little village! If you're looking for an adorable Christmas treat or decoration, these cupcakes are for you.

Easy Christmas Tree Cone Cupcakes

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Ingredients

1. 1 box of cake mix and the other ingredients it says it requires (usually oil, eggs, and water)
   6 sugar cones
   1/2 a container of green frosting, or white/vanilla icing and green food coloring
   Edible green color mist spray
   2-3 normal-sized packs of M&M candies
   1/4 cup powdered sugar for "snow" (optional)

Directions

1. Using the instructions from the boxed cake mix you choose, make the cupcakes. Once baked, set aside and let cool completely.
2. If you don’t have green icing, mix white or vanilla icing with green food coloring and stir until you reach your desired shade of green.
3. Pipe green frosting onto the cupcakes.
4. Spray the sugar cones with edible green mist (or spread them with green icing), then set them aside to dry.
5. Once the sugar cones (Christmas trees) are dry, place a small dot of icing on the “M” side of the M&Ms and stick it to the “tree” and let it dry as an ornament. Repeat this step around 10 times around the cone.
6. Carefully place the cone on top of the cupcake.
7. For extra fun, sprinkle powdered sugar on and around the trees to look like snow!

Information

Category

Desserts

Yield

6 cupcakes