Christmas Tree Cupcakes

These Christmas Tree Cupcakes are so fun and festive! They’re the perfect way to start the holiday season, as well.

If you and someone in your family are looking for a fun dessert recipe, give this one a try! And you know what they say…cooks get to have the first bite of anything they create every single time!

Easy Christmas Tree Cupcakes

Oh my, this might be the cutest dessert ever created! It’s a real stunner to serve, and though it looks like it would take hours, and be so complicated, it doesn’t take long at all to make these, and it’s really simple to do.

You’ll love this recipe, and your family, friends, or guests will be happy and surprised by these cupcakes. They’re sure to put a smile on everyone’s face.

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How to Make Christmas Tree Cupcakes

Some of the ingredients you will need to make these Christmas Tree Cupcakes is in the list below. However, I have the full ingredients and recipe to print out towards the bottom of the page.

This recipe only calls for a few ingredients, and you’ll be enjoying cupcakes in no time at all.

FOR THE CUPCAKES:

You can start with a boxed cake mix to make these really easy, or enjoy this recipe below for homemade cupcakes.

cake flour
cocoa powder
baking soda
butter – softened
sugar
eggs
oil
Vanilla
white vinegar
buttermilk
Red food coloring

FOR THE FROSTING:

4 pounds of powdered sugar – extra to dust the Christmas trees
butter – softened
cream
Vanilla
green food coloring
24 Sugar cones – ice cream cones

Homemade Christmas Tree Cupcakes

First, make the cupcakes; In the mixing bowl of a stand mixer, add the butter, sugar, eggs, oil, vanilla, vinegar, and buttermilk, and blend until smooth and creamy.

In a separate bowl, blend the cake flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt until well mixed.

Add the flour mixture to the mixing bowl, a little at a time, blending between additions until all the flour mixture has been added.

Scrape down the sides of the mixing bowl and blend until it’s smooth.

Add the red food coloring, and mix until all the batter is the same dark red color.

Line your cupcake pans with cupcake liners, and fill the liners about 3/4 full with the cupcake batter.

Place the cupcakes in the oven, and bake at 350 degrees for 15 – 18 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

When the cupcakes are done, remove them from the oven to a wire rack to cool completely.

While the cupcakes are cooling, make the frosting: In the mixing bowl of a stand mixer, place the softened butter, and blend until smooth.

Add 1 Tablespoon of cream, and the vanilla, and mix until creamy.

Add the powdered sugar about a cup at a time until all the powdered sugar has been added, alternating with a few drops of cream between additions.

When all the powdered sugar has been added, stop the mixer, and scrape down the sides of the bowl, and blend again until smooth and creamy.

Christmas Cupcakes

If the frosting seems too thick, add a few drops of cream until the desired consistency is reached. If it’s too thin, add a little more powdered sugar until the desired thickness is achieved.

Place half of the frosting in a separate bowl add the green food coloring to the frosting left in the mixing bowl, and blend until the frosting is all the same green color. Place both bowls of frosting in the refrigerator, and chill until cupcakes are completely cool.

When cupcakes are completely cooled, remove the white Frosting from the refrigerator, and Frost the tops of the cupcakes with a spatula.

You don’t have to worry about frosting the cupcakes perfectly with the White Frosting because it should resemble Snow, so if it’s not the same on each cupcake, that’s okay.

You can sprinkle the white frosting with some Christmas Nonpareils if you want too, or you can leave them with the white frosting. (We thought they looked really cute with the Nonpareils, so we sprinkled them)

When all the cupcakes have been frosted with the white frosting, set aside.

Frost the sugar cones with the Green frosting, using a spatula; just smear it on the cones, from the tip to the top, and then stick the cone down in one of the cupcakes, and repeat until all the cones are frosted and stuck down in the white frosting.

Place the rest of the green frosting in a pastry bag, using the #30 star tip, and pipe little stars all over the sugar cones, from bottom to top.

Once all the cones have been frosted with the stars, sprinkle powdered sugar over the tops of the cupcakes, and all over the green Christmas Tree cones.