Christmas Cupcake Tips
Santa would probably love some cupcakes this year instead of cookies! These Christmas cupcakes decoration ideas are so easy and fun to do. They’re great to get the kids involved. These cupcakes ideas will have your cupcakes looking like beautiful Christmas ornaments, reindeer and Christmas trees. Simply bake your favorite cupcake recipe and decorate accordingly:
Steps:
- Ice cupcakes with red or white frosting. For a stylish look, ice half in red and the other half in white.
- Place a peanut butter cup candy, upside down, on top of the iced cupcake. Press it into the frosting a bit so that it stays put.
- For the ornament hook, use pretzels. Break off the rounded part that resembles a “J” shape and insert the pointed side into the candy. You can also use a mini candy cane.
Christmas Tree Cake
Steps:
- Color bowls of white icing different colors you like using food dye.
- Frost most of the cupcakes green for the tree and the other cupcakes different colors to make it look like there are gifts under the tree.
- Ice two cupcakes with brown chocolate frosting to make the Christmas tree trunk.
- Arrange green cupcakes into the shape of a Christmas tree and use the chocolate-iced cupcakes as the tree trunk. Fill in at the bottom of the tree with different colored cupcakes in square shapes to look like gifts.
- Decorate the top of the cupcakes with festive sprinkles, candy and red icing to make gift bows and ribbons
Steps:
- Ice cupcakes with brown chocolate frosting.
- Use white icing to pipe on the face.