Christmas for kids recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 24 mins; recipe has butter, golden caster sugar, vanilla extract, egg, self-raising flour, milk, butter, icing sugar, vanilla extract, food colouring, sweet, white chocolate, edible gold spray, muffin tin, petit four cases, plant pot, foam cone, cocktail stick and green paint.
Cupcake Christmas tree
Course: Christmas for kids
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
40 mins
Ingredients
- Egg: 2 eggs
- Milk: 2 tbsp milk
- Butter: 200g butter, softened
- Self Raising Flour: 200g self-raising flour
- Golden Caster Sugar: 200g golden caster sugar
- Vanilla Extract: 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Icing Sugar: 525g icing sugar
- White Chocolate: large white chocolate star, to decorate
- Food Colouring: green food colouring
- Sweet: sweets, to decorate (we used Haribo Droppys and Waitrose jelly diamonds)
- Cocktail Stick: cocktail sticks
- Edible Gold Spray: edible gold spray
- Muffin Tin: 24-hole mini muffin tin
- Petit Four Cases: 48 green mini-muffin or petit four cases
- Plant Pot: small plant pot or mini bucket (roughly 13cm across the top)
- Foam Cone: 12cm foam cone (measured across base)
- Green Paint: green paint
Directions
- Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line the muffin tin with the muffin cases. Put half the butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl, and beat until pale and fluffy. Add one egg and mix well. Add half the flour and milk, and mix with a spatula until combined. Use 2 teaspoons to distribute the cake mixture evenly among the cases and bake for 12 mins until risen and golden, and a skewer inserted to the centre comes out clean. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Repeat to make another batch of 24 mini cakes.
- While the cakes are cooling, make the icing. Put the butter and icing sugar in a bowl and beat until smooth. Add the vanilla and food colouring, and blend again until evenly coloured. Transfer the icing to a piping bag fitted with a small star nozzle. Once the cakes have cooled, use a skewer to make a small hole in the base of each cake. To decorate the cakes, pipe blobs of green icing over the surface of each one.
- Now you're ready to start assembling your Christmas tree. Paint the foam cone all over with green paint and leave to dry - don't worry about it being too neat. Push the cone into the pot. To build the tree, push a cocktail stick into the base of each cake and press it into the cone. Continue until the cone is covered in cakes, trying to keep them as close together as possible. You may have some left over, which you can serve alongside the tree.
- Spray the chocolate star gold and put on top of the tree, then decorate the rest of the tree with sweets. The cakes will last for 3 days.
