Christmas Hat Cupcakes

You’ll be busy with holiday parties, cookie exchanges, gift shopping, party hopping, and trimming the tree. It’s easy to feel exhausted from all the tasks involved. You can make Christmas desserts that are both cheerful and nostalgic or a mix of both.

These sweet treats are perfect for the season.

These desserts will be happy endings, as they say. What are you waiting to do? Don’t forget your hat and get ready for some whisky!

Santa Christmas Hat MINI Cupcakes

INGREDIENTS

All-purpose flour – 1 1/2 cups
Cup cocoa powder – 1/4 cup
Baking soda – 1 Tbsp
Granulated sugar – 1 cup
1 cup water
Oil 1/3 Cup
Vinegar – 1 teaspoon
Vanilla essence – 1 teaspoon

METHOD

Pre-heat oven to 180 C. Line a tray with cupcake liners. Mix flour, cocoa powder, and baking soda. Use a whisk to combine. Place a spoon of the mixture in the middle. Add water, oil, and vanilla essence.

You can use a rubber spatula or a spoon to mix all ingredients. Fill the lined tray with the batter, filling it almost to the top. Bake for between 25-30 minutes, or until a wooden skewer is visible.

Let cool before frosting.

ICING

Attach a small round tip at the end of your vanilla buttercream-filled piping bag. The strawberries should be cut at the ends so that they can stand upright on a flat base. With the piping bag, create a ring of vanilla buttercream on top of the cupcake large enough to hold the strawberry.

Put the strawberry in the center of the ring. To make a Santa hat, pipe some vanilla buttercream onto the pointed end of your strawberry.

Christmas Hat Tree Brownies

INGREDIENTS

All-purpose flour 3/4 cup
Granulated sugar – 1 cup
Salt – 1/4 tbsp
Baking powder 2 tbsp
Cocoa powder 1/3 cup
Half of the melted butter
Yogurt 1/2 cup + 2 Tbsp
Half a cup of chocolate chips

METHOD

Preheat oven to 180 Celsius. Prepare an 8-inch square pan with parchment paper. Mix flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder together in a bowl until well combined. Combine butter and yogurt in a separate bowl. Use a wooden spoon to fold the ingredients.

Don’t overmix. Heat the batter in the prepared pan for 30 to 35 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into it comes out with some sticky crumbs. Let cool before cutting.

Ice

Make triangles from brownies. Place a popsicle stick on the bottom. To emphasize the tree shape, color your buttercream green. Placer gold/silver/pink/blue/any color dragee along with your buttercream.

Make mini fondant stars and paint them gold. After the star has dried, glue it to the top of the brownie triangle with a bit of buttercream.

Christmas Hat Cupcakes from the Xmas Tree

Ingredients

All-purpose flour – 2 cups
Baking soda – 1 Tbsp
1/2 cup oil
Sugar – 1 Cup
1 cup yogurt
Vanilla essence – 1 Tbsp
1 cup milk

Method

Pre-heat oven to 180 Celsius. Prepare a tray of cupcake liners. In Big bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and baking soda. Add oil, sugar, vanilla, and milk to a separate bowl. Mix well. Mix the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients.

Bake the batter on the prepared tray for 25-30 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean. Let cool before frosting.

Icing

Frost the cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. Place a waffle cone at the center of the cupcake by cutting it to the right height. Use a small star tip to fill a piping bag with green buttercream—pipe ‘leaves’ around the cone, starting at the bottom and going up.

Decorate the tree with pearls and dragee. Please make a small star from fondant and then paint it gold. The star should be inserted on top of the tree.

Sprinkle some icing sugar onto the tree’s top with a spoon to make snow.