Christmas Tree Cupcakes

5 from 15 votes

This Christmas tree cupcakes recipe will impress everyone around the Christmas table and can be the easiest, most impressive recipe in your Christmas baking repertoire! It is not just easy and fun to make, but also tastes amazing, and is the perfect festive cupcake to please all your family and friends!

Prep Time1

Cook Time30

Total Time1 30

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings:

Calories: 828kcal

Author: Katalin Nagy

Equipment

Ingredients

Chocolate muffin

110 g Cotswold self raising flour If cannot self raising flour use ½ teaspoon baking powder with 110g AP flour
25 g Unsweetened cocoa powder
¼ teaspoon Salt
120 g Granulated sugar
80 g Vegetable oil
1 Egg room temp
50 g Whole milk room temp
50 g Coffee freshly brewed, room temp

Chocolate ganache filling

45 g Semi sweet chocolate
60 g Heavy Cream 36% fat content

Frosting (white)

120 g Mascarpone cold, full fat 41%
80 g Heavy Cream very cold, 36% fat content
30 g Icing sugar

Frosting (green)

240 g Mascarpone cold, full fat 41%
160 g Heavy cream very cold, 36% fat content
60 g Icing sugar
Green food coloring gel or powder

Decoration

sprinkles
dust with icing sugar

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

Start with making the chocolate muffin

Pre-heat oven to 175C and Prepare a Cupcake tin with 6 tall muffin cases
With the help of a Hand whisk, whisk wet ingredients: room temperature egg, oil, milk, coffee just until combined
Sift dry ingredients: Cotswold self raising flour , cocoa powder, salt and sugar and whisk with Hand whisk
Pour wet into dry ingredients and mix the batter with a Hand whisk just until combined
Fill cupcake cases till ¾. This recipe makes 6 tall, baker style cupcakes
Bake for 23 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the cupcake comes out clean
Cool cupcakes to room temp before filling and frosting them

Continue with chocolate ganache

Place finely chopped chocolate into a bowl, try to use high quality chocolate
Heat double cream until just simmering then pour warm cream over the chopped chocolate
Let the two sit for a minute then stir together or use a blender to emulsify
Let the ganache cool for 30 minutes and use according to the recipe. The ganache will thicken as it cools

Make the frosting

Make the white frosting by whip cold mascarpone, very cold heavy cream and sifted icing sugar with an Electric hand mixer until smooth and fluffy, about 1-2 minutes. Once it has reached the right consistency, do not overbeat as it can become runny
The preparation of the green frosting is identical with the white one except mix in the food colouring towards the end for the last 30seconds, just before mixture reaches fluffy consistency

Assembling

Make a small hole on top of each of the cupcakes and fill them with chocolate ganache. Pop them into the freezer for 3 minutes to set
First pipe the white frosting on top of the cupcakes then the green one using Wilton 1M piping nozzle tip to achieve the lovely Christmas tree pattern
Decorate with sprinkles and dust with icing sugar for snow effect, if desired
The cupcakes will stay moist and fluffy in the fridge for days however they are the best on the same day they are made. Store in fridge

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