Name: Christmas Tree Mini Cupcakes Recipe
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 48 min
Yield: 48
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: For Mini Cupcakes:; 1½ cups pastry flour; 1 cup white sugar; ⅓ cup cocoa powder; 1 cup water; ½ cup Vegetable Oil; 1 tsp vanilla extract; For Toppings:; 1 cup vanilla frosting; 1 drop green food coloring; 48 small strawberries; ¼ cup round red candies; star shaped candies

How To Make Christmas Tree Mini Cupcakes

These Christmas tree mini cupcakes are easier to make than they look. Enjoy vanilla frosted desserts with strawberries for rich and moist tarty treats.

Preparation: 30 minutes

Cooking: 8 minutes

Chill and Cool Time: 10 minutes

Total: 48 minutes

Serves:

Ingredients

For Mini Cupcakes:

1½cupspastry flour
1cupwhite sugar
⅓cupcocoa powder
1cupwater
½cupvegetable oil
1tspvanilla extract

For Toppings:

1cupvanilla frosting,or as desired
1dropgreen food coloring,or as desired
48small strawberries,hulled
¼cupround red candies,or as desired
star shaped candies

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease mini muffin cups or line with paper liners.
Mix pastry flour, white sugar, and cocoa powder together in a bowl; add water, oil, and vanilla extract and blend until batter is smooth. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups.
Bake in the preheated oven for 8 to 12 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes.

Frosting:

Mix frosting and green food coloring together in a bowl until evenly combined. Transfer frosting to a pipe bag or plastic bag with a snipped corner; refrigerate for 5 minutes.
Squeeze a small amount of frosting onto the hulled side of each strawberry and place each onto a cupcake so the strawberry is in the shape of a tree.
Pipe frosting onto each strawberry to look like leaves. Add candies to the “tree” to look like ornaments and place a star-shaped candy on top of each “tree”.
Serve and enjoy.