What you will need:
A cupcake
808 tip by Ateco
Buttercream (mixed with your prefered flavour)
Disposable bags by Ateco
Brown colouring by Wilton
Green fondant icing
Candy cane sprinkles by Wilton
Snowflake sprinkles by PME
Blade tool by PME
Non-stick fondant rolling pin
Jumbo star Sprinkles by Wilton
White sugar pearls by Twinkle Baker Decor
White fully edible glitter by Twinkle Baker Decor
Edible glue by Squires Kitchen
Paintbrush
A Cadbury’s Flake
Step one: Using your pre-filled disposable piping bag by Ateco pipe a swirl atop of your cupcake.
Step two: Begin decorating the swirl by placing sugar peals by Twinkle Baker Decor and snowflakes by PME around your cupcake. This will create your ‘winter woodland floor’. Avoid the centre as that is where you will need to push the ‘tree trunk’ in.
Step three: Sprinkle your fully edible glitter by Twinkle Baker Decor over the decorated ‘woodland floor’ to add a frosty sparkle.
Step four: Place your cupcake aside for the moment and take your flake. Snap or cut the flake down to size ensuring it does not crumble too much. Once it is at the required size push the flake into your cupcake/buttercream; now you have your ‘tree trunk’.
Step five: Set your cupcake aside once again and take your green fondant icing. Tearing enough off to create (roughly) a 6cm cone mould the icing until you have a similar shape to that above. Now you have the basis of your Christmas tree.
Step six: Using your edible glue by Squires Kitchen paint the top of the flake and place the gren cone on top. Once it is secure set it to one side to try a little.
Step seven: As your cone is drying roll out the rest of the green fondant icing. Once rolled out begin to cut strips of ‘zig zags’ using your blade tool by PME; these will create a leaf/pine cone look for your Christmas tree once layered. Begin at the bottom ensuring your strip long enough to wrap around the base of your cone and gradually decrease their size as you work up to the top.
Step eight: Cover your cone in edible glue by Squires Kitchen and begin to layer your Christmas tree ‘Leaves/pines’ until you have covered every bit of the cone.
Step nine: Take the candy cane sprinkles Wilton and the snowflake sprinkles by PME and begin adding your Christmas tree decorations.
Step ten: Once finished take your jumbo star sprinkles by WIlton and select your prefered colour (we chose a traditional gold/yellow star) and place it atop of your Christmas tree.
Now you have your decorated Christmas tree growing in a frosty wood cupcake!
Merry Christmas from Juniper Cakery.
