Christmas Tree Cupcakes

This is a fun & easy treat for Christmas season. However I saw this ice cream cone trees in many websites.

These trees are good for cupcakes or even good for ginger bread house decoration .

I used them to decorate cupcakes.

Here is the recipe.

Ingredients (for 6 nos)

6 ice-cream cones

Buttercream Icing coloured in green

Few colourfull candy (M & M)

6 cupcakes

Method

First you need to bake cupcakes. (Here is the recipe for vanilla cupcakes)

Start decorating after cupcakes are cool down,

I used a star tip for decorating.

First use some icing in the bottom of ice cream cones and paste them on top of cup cakes.

Then cover it with butter cream icing in the pattern of top to bottom.

After covered the Ice-cream cone, paste some candy. Icing itself will act as glue & easy to hold candies.

I used a gum candy as the top of the tree.

They look so colorful & good for Christmas season.

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Vanilla Cupcakes

This is a very basic & delicious cupcake recipe.I decorated them using buttercream icing.

Ingredients(12 nos)

100 g Butter in room temperature

100g sugar

100g flour sieved

2 eggs in room temperature

1 tsp Baking powder

½ tsp vanilla essence

Method

Preheat oven for 350F.Line the baking pan with cupcake liners.

In a bowl combine flour & baking powder, keep aside.

Beat butter & sugar together in low speed for 2 minutes. Then gradually add eggs for this mixture and mix in high speed for about 2 minutes until the batter become smooth.

Then add vanilla essence,

Also gradually add flour while beating.

Once it becomes a smooth batter, fill the cupcake liners with batter. Fill upto ¾ of the cup.

Bake for about 20 to 25 mins  or until golden brown.

A tooth pick inserted to cake should come out clean when it is baked.

Once it is baked, transfer to cooling rack to cool down completely

Frosting

I used buttercream icing for decorating.

Used star tip & decorate it with a simple design.

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