These Christmas tree cupcakes are super moist, fudgy, and cute!
CHRISTMAS CUPCAKES
So I officially decided that it’s silly season time! When the snow is falling, the family gathered, and presents are under the tree. All you need is a rich and moist chocolate cupcake, frosted with the creamiest festive frosting and decorated with beautiful sugar pearls or colourful funfetti! The cupcakes are intensely chocolate flavoured, they’re fudgy and super moist. They’re also very easy to make!
CHRISTMAS TREE CUPCAKES
These Christmas tree cupcakes are my favourite! I also really love the Snowman Cupcakes, they’re REALLY fun to make with the kids. But these Christmas tree cupcakes are so easy to frost, as all you need is green frosting and some funfetti or sprinkles to decorate.
The ingredients for these cupcakes are pretty simple! They are ingredients that you will usually find in your kitchen if you’re into baking. The key to perfect cupcakes is that the ingredients MUST be at room temperature, as the ingredients incorporate into the batter much better when they’re at similar temperatures. The other tip is to make sure that you do not over mix the batter, this is why I always just mix the batter with a whisk until just combined.
I really enjoyed decorating these cupcakes, as it’s the usual swirl that I make when I decorate any other simple cupcakes. I used Wilton tip #27 to create the Christmas tree. And of course, decorated with sugar pearls and funfetti for more colour!
For more Holiday cupcake recipes, check out my Super Festive Christmas Cupcakes round up!
Christmas Tree Cupcakes
Ingredients
- ¾ cup all purpose flour
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- ½ cup milk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Vanilla frosting
- Green food colouring
- Funfetti or sugar pearls to decorate
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 180c and line a muffin baking pan with 12 cupcake liners.
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In a medium sized bowl, whisk together the eggs, sugar, oil, and vanilla extract.
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Stir in milk, then add the rest of the ingredients (flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt), and mix until just combined but do not over mix. They batter won't be very thick, sort of runny and that's okay.
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Pour the batter into liners, and bake for 18-20 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. When completely chilled, make the frosting by adding 1/2 tsp of food colouring to the vanilla frosting and beat with an electric mixer until colour is evenly distributed. If you want a brighter green colour add more food colouring.
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To decorate the cupcakes with green frosting, place it into a piping bag attaching tip #27 and create tree shapes. Finally, decorate with funfetti, sprinkles, or sugar pearls.
I love the look of these ones and even though they are christmasy i think they could easily be adapted to make all year round too
Just SO adorable! The sprinkles make them look like proper little Christmas trees!
Oh how clever Diana. Perfect little cakes for Christmas. I love the decorated Christmas tree effect.
These are so cute, my two girls would love me to make these, though they wouldn’t look as nice I am certain! Brilliant for Christmas, must check out Aldi’s baking range too.
Thank you Lucy! I’m pretty sure that yours will look amazing!
oh my they look great my daughter would love them
You should bake some for Christmas and let your daughter help you decorate, she will really enjoy it 🙂
Love love love these!! will have to make some of these with the kids, but my piping want be has good.
I’m pretty sure that yours will be wonderful! Have fun 🙂
These look amazing, I can never get my icing to look as good as this. I need to up my piping skills! x
It just takes a little bit of practice, happy Christmas 🙂
Oh wow these are amazing! So pinterest worthy too. I may have to give them a go, would be great piping practice!
Let me know how do they turn out!
These look SUPER festive! I’m living in Australia at the moment & really jealous of the snow. Typical, right? ?
Nicola, xo
Haha which is cool because you get to celebrate Christmas on the beach! But this does not mean that you can’t celebrate with Christmas tree cupcakes 😉
My kiddoes would love you forever if you send them a few of these in the post.
Kids love pretty cupcakes! I would love to send you some next time I bake cupcakes 🙂
Oh these look so pretty and as I read this eating my porridge, much more interesting x
Who said you can’t eat cupcakes for breakfast 😉
These look pretty and would be a lovely treat at Christmas time. Easy to make with children too.
My 4 years old niece was helping me decorate the cupcakes and she had a blast!
These look great Diana, look at the colour of that frosting!
Thank you Jemma! The colour is really fun, I have never frosted a cupcake with green frosting before 🙂