I posted the dessert tray I made for a Christmas party the last week of December, do you remember seeing the mini cupcakes frosted with Christmas trees and wreaths on top? In case you wondered - and I get that you won't need to know this for 11 months but you might be able to use this info for non-Christmas trees or wreaths and if not then maybe you'll file it away for next December - I thought I'd quickly share how to do it.
For both designs I frosted the tops of baked and cooled cupcakes with white buttercream, then put a medium-size star frosting tip and green-tinted buttercream in a decorating bag. Before you start piping the frosting get whatever decorations/sprinkles you are going to use ready because the buttercream tends to set up really quickly and you need to get those sprinkles on before the frosting hardens!
For the trees: hold the bag straight up and down on top of the cupcake so it's directly above the cupcake. Squeeze the bag and starting around the edge of the cupcake pipe the frosting in a circular motion, work your way up layering the frosting over each row. Pipe the frosting tighter as you get closer to the top to create a tree shape (or inverted cone shape). Decorate with sprinkles, candies, or whatever decorations you've decided on ahead of time before moving on to the next cupcake. You can get away with piping 2 or 3 trees before adding the decorations if you move quickly enough.
For the wreaths: squeeze small star shapes around the edge of the cupcakes in a circle creating the wreath shape; immediately add sprinkles or other decorations. These would also be cute with a piped-on red bow or a bow-shaped candy.
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