Christmas Cupcakes Recipe

How to make it

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• Sift the cake flour twice.
• Using 2 large mixing bowls, sift together twice, flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and cocoa.
• Transfer to a medium mixing bowl.
• Add butter.
• Mix until everything is fine and crumbly like wet sand.
• Add oil, eggs, vanilla and milk.
• Mix well.
• Mix with hand mixer on highspeed for 4 minutes until thick and fluffy.
• Spoon into greased muffin tins to the top.
• Bake for 26 - 27 minutes on 180 degrees.
• Let the cupcakes cool for 7 minutes bfore transferring to a cool rack.
• Store the cupcakes after cooling in an airtight plastic container overnight to soften the edges for cutting.
• Assembling the trees:
• Cut 12 red and 12 green cherries into quaters and then each quarter into 6 - 8 bits.
• Place in separate bowl for later use.
• Whip up the cream.
• Place cupcake upside down on a cutting surface.
• Slice off the bottom of cupcake.
• Set bottom aside.
• Take the cap and place it upright.
• Carefully slice a bit off the top to make the tree top (1st layer)
• Slice rest of the cap into two equal layers.
• Place the bottom part upright and scoop out a hole using a melon baller or knife.
• Using a pastry bag fitter with a star tip, pipe out a bit of toppint into the hole.
• Insert a whole cherry.
• Pipe out topping to cover the cherry.
• Place bottom layer with top cut side facing up, over the piped topping.
• Pipe cream over it
• Repeat with other layers.
• Don't pipe anyting on top yet.
• Sprinkle rainbow sprinkles all around.
• Put cut cherries all around.
• Pipe out a star on top.
• Put silver dragee on top.
• Sift some icing sugar over.

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