Christmas Cupcake: Recipe for Tree-Shaped Sweets

The most anticipated holiday of the year is coming and we will welcome it with these delicious Christmas cupcakes, soft cakes covered with an attractive frosting with a fresh taste and velvety consistency, embellished with cute colored themed sugars. Alongside the typical and majestic traditional desserts , there are also new and delicious recipes that enrich the Christmas table making it even more spectacular. Let yourself be tempted by these soft Christmas cupcakes and have fun decorating them with the little ones at home, so as to make the holidays even more joyful!

Christmas cupcakes are a very original idea to make Christmas sweeter. They can be a fun idea for the traditional Christmas dinner organized with friends to exchange gifts, for example, or as sweets for the little ones.

In fact, cupcakes originated in the United States in the 19th century and owe their name to the fact that they were often baked in cups or “cups”. These sweets were also measured with cups, a practical method compared to the scales used at the time - a system that still works for us in the kitchen. Today cupcakes are very popular for parties, birthdays and celebrations, thanks to their versatility: they can be decorated in creative ways with frosting, creams and toppings, adapting to any type of theme and special occasion. Why not, they can also be an original idea as a Christmas gift or as a placeholder on a beautiful Christmas table.

Now, let's see together the basic recipe and many ideas on how to decorate them cheerfully. Cupcakes are usually prepared with a neutral base but can be enriched with the ingredients you love most: chocolate chips, dried fruit, dried fruit etc. Christmas cupcakes can be prepared in the white vanilla version, as in the recipe below, or you can add bitter cocoa to the mixture, to have a dark version.

If you feel like experimenting, you can decorate your Christmas cupcakes with sugar paste sculptures . If you are new to this type of decoration, cut out some disks to place on the cupcake and then decorate them with simple, flat subjects. For example, by overlapping white disks of various sizes, you can form a snowman. If you intertwine rolls of white and red sugar paste, you will obtain candy canes. With a gingerbread man-shaped cookie cutter, you can cut out the sugar paste and decorate your Christmas cupcakes with whipped cream and the gingerbread men. The more expert you are, the more you will be able to create scenic shapes.

Christmas cupcakes are sweets in the shape of a Christmas tree, delicious and spectacular, made up of a classic vanilla muffin base and garnished with a creamy green butter frosting, sprinkles and sugar paste decorations. Perfect for enriching the holiday table, they are ideal for concluding in an original way the Christmas lunch or the Christmas Eve dinner.

Preparing them is really simple , but it only requires a little time and a minimum of familiarity with the piping bag. Once you have made the muffin dough with flour, sugar, milk, eggs, oil, yeast and vanilla, you just need to distribute it in the appropriate muffin mold and bake for about 20 minutes. While the sweets cool, you can dedicate yourself to the butter cream and, finally, use it to create the shape of a Christmas tree.

A soft spiced dough made with cinnamon, ginger and cloves, enriched with a sweet and velvety yogurt cream: these pretty cupcakes contain the enveloping and unmistakable scents of Christmas and are perfect for a full-charge breakfast or an afternoon snack. Try them and let yourself be conquered by the sweetness of the Holidays!

Are you looking for cute and easy ideas for Christmas? Our Santa Claus cupcakes are perfect: very easy, quick and very cute! They are prepared in a short time and are a concentration of joy. They are perfect for card games with friends and family, children's parties and also for a Christmas lunch or dinner with the family.

Santa Claus cupcakes are very simple and can be prepared even involving children . They are designed to represent Santa Claus's hat and therefore do not require particular cake design skills to obtain an excellent result. All you need are two piping bags and a little red food coloring.

We recommend decorating these cupcakes a few hours before serving them. However, we can prepare the muffins in advance, even the day before. We can also make the mascarpone cream in advance and perhaps put it in piping bags, so that it is ready to use. Just before our guests arrive, we decorate our sweets and keep them in the refrigerator.

We can have fun creating all the variations we want, even choosing a muffin recipe that we like or that we do particularly well. Or create a cream cheese frosting so that it is lighter, or even use only whipped cream: they will still be very cute and delicious!

Cupcakes owe their name to their size, and are in fact just as big as a cup and are ideal to accompany a good tea or for a delicious snack. There are many varieties of cupcake like chocolate, vanilla, coffee, etc., with fresh cream cheese and sugar and decorated with icing sugar.

A blanket that is the comfort food, a food that the only scent seems a cuddle and makes us feel serene. Everyone, everywhere, has a food that makes you forget the heaviness of the day and brings him back to live with the memory of happy days, a caress for the heart.

A cupcake literally, in English, pie in cup, also called fairy cake in England and patty cake in Australia, is a sponge cake, a mini-pie baked in a baking cups, ceramic, buttered and floured, or in a mold of baking paper such as that used for the preparation of muffins.

The original Chocolate Cupcake recipe, old-fashioned cupcake, provides a glaze, called frosting royal icing, naspro, icing, sugar paste or buttercream, a filling cream and a decoration, it can vary from most modern seals in colored sugar or chocolate plastic to the classic cherry, in this original form corresponds to the traditional pastry, the sigh of southern origin.

The origin of this cake goes back to the nineteenth century. Before the invention of special molds, these cakes were baked in pans, cups, bowls; from this it would then the name of the sweet and may also result from the fact that in the past the cup was the simplest and most common means in the measurement of the ingredients in any recipe.

The basic recipe of the cupcake is like any other pie: butter, sugar, eggs and flour. They can therefore be applied to many variations to the basic recipe with the difference that the preparation of a small cake is much easier and faster.

It is one of the cakes served more frequently in the celebrations of birthdays and various holidays in the United States and has been widely spread in Europe, especially thanks to various television programs dedicated to him.


Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cooking time: 30 mins
Servings: 3 servings
Calories: 376 calories

Ingredients:

2 cups chocolate
2 cups cream
1 cup plain flour
2 cups sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp cocoa powder
Salt to taste
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup shortening
3 cups water
2 eggs
3 cups milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbsp butter
Sugar flowers, sweets and sprinkles

Recipe Method:

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Line cupcake pans with paper liners.

Gently melt the butter, chocolate, half of the sugar and a cup hot water together in a large pan, Stir milk, cream and chocolate over low heat until smooth. Set aside to cool slightly.

Stir the eggs and vanilla into the chocolate mixture. Put the flour into a large mixing bowl and then stir in the chocolate mixture until smooth.

Sift in flour, cocoa and baking powder and then stir with a metal spoon to combine all the other ingredients into large mixing bowl. Start to beat it until smooth at low speed for 30 seconds, and scrape bowl. Mix at high speed for 3 minutes.

Fill liners half full of batter. Bake for 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean. Cool slightly in pans then remove from pan, and place on wire racks to cool completely.

Frost when chocolate cupcakes are completely cool. Place them in the refrigerator until the ganache is chilled, not more than 30 minutes.

For sauce, place ingredients in a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering. Stir until chocolate has melted. Remove from heat and stir until smooth. Stir in the thin cream and sift half of the sugar. Cool slightly.

Let's take our muffins and make a border with the white cream, which will be the edge of Santa's hat. Then with the red cream we create a little mountain, so as to give the shape of the hat. We decorate with a meringue on top that will be the pom-pom. And finally we add some white chocolate chips (or granulated sugar) on the edge between the red and white cream.