Moist Vanilla Cupcakes Christmas Trees
An easy recipe for Moist vanilla cupcakes Christmas trees.
Ingredients
- 290 g flour
- 12 g baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 100 g melted butter
- 200 g granulated sugar
- 30 g vanilla sugar
- 3 eggs room temp
- 120 g sour cream
- 3 tsps vanilla syrup
- 50 ml oil
Sugar Trees
- 400 g softened butter
- 3 tbsps milk
- 300 g icing sugar
- green food colouring
- shredded coconut for "snow"
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Preheat the oven to 210°C. Prepare a muffin pan and paper cups.
- In a bowl mix together melted butter, oil, vanilla syrup, and sugars. You can use an egg whisker as well. Whisk for a minute until the mixture gets creamy.
- Add eggs and whisk again until combined. Add sour cream and repeat.
- Add flour, a pinch of salt, and baking powder. Mix well until the flour disappears. Let the mixture rest for 5 minutes. In the meantime put paper cups in every second hole in a muffin pan.
- Fill up the paper cups and bake for 5 minutes. Then decrease the temperature to 180°C and bake for 8-16 minutes. Depends on how big your muffins are. I recommend baking until the toothpick comes out clean. Take them out of the oven, get them out of the muffin pan after 4 minutes and let them cool completely.
Sugar trees
- In a bowl whip butter and icing sugar. Then add tablespoons of milk and whip again.
- For the green food colouring, I recommend using the high-quality one, but the regular one should work too. Follow the instructions on the packaging.
- Frost cool cupcakes with a frosting bag and frosting tip into the shape of a Christmas tree. You can add sugar balls and sprinkle them with shredded coconut.