Easy Christmas Cupcakes (4 ways)

Easy Christmas Cupcake Decorating

Today I’m going to show you how to make some super cute and sweet cupcakes for Christmas! These treats are mere ideas – you can use any kind of cupcake you like!

With just some easy frosting, sprinkles and food coloring you can make the cutest Christmas Cupcakes ever.

Ingredients Needed

Again, these cupcakes are just decorating ideas to get you started. Here’s what you’ll need:

• Cupcakes: you can use any flavor, homemade or from the store.
• Vanilla Frosting: use homemade or store bought. If using homemade you’ll want a double recipe.
• Cupcake Liners: any color works, but I love the brown ones for the trees and Santa hats!
• Tools: pastry bags, round tip (Wilton Tip 12), star tip (Wilton Tip 22), Wilton 1M tip, gel food coloring (I love the Wilton Color System or Americolor Gel)
• Sprinkles: gold stars for the trees (and any other kind for ornaments) plus some fun holiday sprinkles for the piñata cupcake and something for the buttons on the snowman
• Marshmallows for the snowmen face

How to make Christmas Tree Cupcakes

• Cupcakes: Bake the cupcakes in brown liners if you have them – and chocolate cupcakes look more like the bark of the tree.
• Frosting: I did Spring Green from the Wilton Color Chart (linked above).
• Tools: Use a piping bag fitted with a 1M tip and frost the cupcakes high (see my easy cupcake frosting tutorial to see how I get it so high).
• Decorating: Top the cupcake with a gold star and sprinkle some sugar sprinkles around the edges of the frosting for ornaments.
• These would be pretty cupcakes to make a cupcake wreath with – decorate the entire batch like Christmas trees and place in a circle and you have Christmas wreath cupcakes!

How to make Santa Hat Cupcakes

• Cupcakes: Use any flavor cupcake. If you can find red liners they are perfect!
• Frosting: Tint some of the frosting bright red. This is best done with a gel food coloring (the grocery store kind has a hard time turning full red).
• Tools: Use the small round piping tip with the red frosting to pipe the pile of hat, then use the star tip with white frosting to pipe the ball at the end and puff balls around the base.
• Decorating: If you want, sprinkle some white sanding sugar on the white parts to make it look fluffy.

How to make Melting Snowman Cupcakes

• Cupcakes: Use any flavor cupcake and any color liner.
• Frosting: leave it white, no piping bag or tip needed.
• Tools: toothpick, for drawing the arms and face. Black and orange food coloring for the arms and face.
• Decoration: use a knife to spread white frosting on the cupcake. Cut a large marshmallow in half and place it on one side of the cupcake, then add large sprinkle buttons. Use the toothpick dipped in food coloring to draw the face and arms.