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Moist Vanilla Cupcakes Christmas Trees

An easy recipe for Moist vanilla cupcakes Christmas trees.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 28 minutes
Servings: 15 cupcakes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Method

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"

Method
 

Cupcakes
  1. Preheat the oven to 210°C. Prepare a muffin pan and paper cups.
  2. 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.
  3. Add eggs and whisk again until combined. Add sour cream and repeat.
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  1. In a bowl whip butter and icing sugar. Then add tablespoons of milk and whip again.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.