Christmas Tree Pull Apart Cupcakes Cake
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Impress your guests with this Christmas Tree Pull Apart Cupcakes Cake! Each cupcake creates the perfect little bite-sized dessert that’s full of holiday cheer. Who’s ready to dive in and sleigh these?
More fun Christmas Desserts? You’ll love these 40 Christmas Tree Desserts, these Christmas Cookie Bars, these M&M Christmas Cookies and these awesome Biscoff Cookie Butter Truffles!
Why We Love This Christmas Tree Pull Apart Cupcakes Cake!
First of all, you don’t need to be a professional baker to make this cool Christmas dessert! So, this season, treat your friends and family to a festive twist on traditional cupcakes with these Pull Apart Christmas Tree Cupcakes shaped like a Christmas Tree Cake!
You can make your holiday season extra special with this fun cupcake Christmas tree with all the tasty goodies on top!
Just bake 17 cupcakes, add some colorful decorations, and soon you’ll have a mini Christmas tree that tastes as good as it looks. This eye-catching dessert not only looks amazing but it also tastes heavenly.
With easy to follow instructions and simple ingredients, you won’t even have to break out your Christmas sweater in order to make this impressive holiday treat.
However when you eat these fun treats, you should have your ugly Christmas sweater on to make it a real fun party! You can even make some ugly Christmas sweater cookies! So cute!
These delectable cupcakes are the perfect way to get into the holiday spirit, and, with their cheerful colors and artistic presentation, they will be sure to bring a smile to any guest’s face.
They also make a great project for kids to help with, so everyone in the family can join the fun and get creative! So, let’s make a Christmas Tree please!!
Gather Your Ingredients
- 17 Cupcakes, baked and cooled, any flavor
- Vanilla Frosting Recipe or purchase 1-2 cans of Vanilla Frosting, depending on how thick you want your frosting to mix with the food coloring)
- Christmas Tree – Green food coloring or gel
- Tree Trunk – Brown food coloring or gel or 2-3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- Christmas m&ms
(I used sugar cookie m&ms
)
- Green Sixlets
- Gold stars
- (optional) Twix bars
or peppermint sticks
- Star on top – pretzel stick, melted white chocolate piped into a star with sprinkles
How to Make the Pull Apart Christmas Tree
Create a festive Christmas Tree Pull-Apart Cupcake for the perfect holiday party! This easy-to-follow cupcake recipe is sure to impress and delight your guests.
Assemble the Cupcakes
Arrange the cupcakes up according to the diagram into a Christmas tree shape on a platter or cutting board.
Make the Vanilla Frosting
Make the Vanilla Frosting or use prepared 1-2 cans of Vanilla Frosting, depending on how thick you want your frosting
- Using mixer, beat softened butter until creamy.
- Add salt, then gradually, about ½ cup at a time, add powdered sugar, waiting until each cup is completely mixed before adding more.
- With mixer on medium-low speed, add the heavy cream/milk, one tablespoon at a time. Once ingredients are well incorporated, gradually increase speed to high and beat for about 30 seconds.
- Add vanilla extract and stir well.
Make the Frosting Colors
- First, save some frosting out for the tree trunk and mix it up with brown food coloring gel or cocoa powder, set aside. You won’t need a lot.
- With the remaining frosting using the green food coloring, mix it into the frosting to get the color(s) you want.
Decorating the Christmas Tree Pull Apart Cupcakes Cake
- Pipe or spread the green frosting over cooled cupcakes for the tree part, followed by the brown frosting for the tree trunk. If you want to fill in the holes where the cupcakes aren’t touching, you can pipe in some frosting if you like. If there is too much of a gap, the frosting will just fall through, so make sure your cupcakes are close together and touching.
- Decorate the tree by placing the green, red and white m&m’s, green sixlets and gold stars all over.
- For the tree trunk – Use a star tip or toothpick to make it look rough or place the twix bars on top to look like logs or bark. Can also use peppermint sticks for a festive look as well.
- For the Star on Top of the Tree – I melted white chocolate and laid a pretzel stick down and piped out a star and sprinkled it with some colorful sprinkles. Once it was hardened, I stuck it in the top of the tree.
- Add any decor you like, you can make this with any kind or color of m&ms, candies, sprinkles, etc. Make it a fun project with the kids and get ready for a delicious, fun-filled holiday with these Christmas Tree Pull-Apart Cupcakes!
Check out 60 Easy No Bake Treats and these Christmas Chocolate Chip Cookies for more holiday dessert ideas!
So now you can create a festive Christmas Tree Pull-Apart Cupcake Cake for the perfect holiday party! This easy-to-follow cupcake recipe is sure to impress and delight your guests.
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Christmas Tree Pull Apart Cupcakes
Ingredients
Christmas Tree Pull-Apart Cupcakes Cake
- 17 cupcakes baked and cooled, any flavor
Vanilla Frosting Recipe
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened to room temperature
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 3 ½ cups powdered sugar add more if needed
- 3 Tablespoons heavy cream or milk of choice add more if needed
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract optional
- Green food coloring or gel for Christmas Tree
- Brown food coloring or gel for Tree Trunk - can also add 2-3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- Christmas m&ms I used sugar cookie m&ms
- Green Sixlets
- Gold stars
- optional Twix bars or peppermint sticks for Tree Trunk
- Star on top - pretzel stick melted white chocolate piped into a star with sprinkles
Instructions
Christmas Tree Pull-Apart Cupcakes Cake
- Arrange the cupcakes up according to the diagram into a Christmas tree shape on a platter or cutting board.
Vanilla Frosting
- Make the Vanilla Frosting or can opt to use prepared 1-2 cans of Vanilla Frosting, depending on how thick you want your frosting instead of homemade frosting.
- Using mixer, beat softened butter until creamy.
- Add salt, then gradually, about ½ cup at a time, add powdered sugar, waiting until each cup is completely mixed before adding more.
- With mixer on medium-low speed, add the heavy cream/milk, one tablespoon at a time. Once ingredients are well incorporated, gradually increase speed to high and beat for about 30 seconds.
- Add vanilla extract and stir well.
Make the Frosting Colors
- First, save some frosting out for the tree trunk and mix it up with brown food coloring gel or cocoa powder, set aside. You won’t need a lot.
- With the remaining frosting using the green food coloring, mix it into the frosting to get the color(s) you want. Pipe frosting on top of cupcakes using a star tip or frost with a spatula.
Decorating the Tree
- Pipe or spread the green frosting over cooled cupcakes for the tree part, followed by the brown frosting for the tree trunk. If you want to fill in the holes where the cupcakes aren't touching, you can pipe in some frosting if you like. If there is too much of a gap, the frosting will just fall through, so make sure your cupcakes are close together and touching.
- Decorate the tree by placing the green, red and white m&m’s, green sixlets and gold stars all over.
- For the tree trunk - Use a star tip or toothpick to make it look rough or place the twix bars on top to look like logs or bark. Can also use peppermint sticks for a festive look as well.
- For the Star on Top of the Tree - I melted white chocolate and laid a pretzel stick down and piped out a star and sprinkled it with some colorful sprinkles. Once it was hardened, I stuck it in the top of the tree.
- Add any decor you like, you can make this with any kind or color of m&ms, candies, sprinkles, etc. Make it a fun project with the kids!
