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Christmas Cupcake Wreath Recipe

Keyword: Cakes and cupcakes, Desserts, Holidays
Skill: intermediate
Servings: 1

INGREDIENTS

  • 17-20 cupcakes
  • Buttercream Frosting
  • Green food coloring
  • Red food coloring
  • Silver sprinkles
  • Round piping nozzle, small
  • Star piping nozzle
  • 104 piping nozzle (ribbon)
  • 352 piping nozzle (leaf)
  • Piping bags
  • Red ribbon

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Place the cupcakes down on your serving board. Note that you can't move it once it is decorated.
  2. Make a circle with roughly 11 cupcakes. Place roughly 6 cupcakes in the middle so you have 2 cycles of cupcakes. You maybe need more or less depending on the size of your cupcakes.
  3. Mix green dye into a large amount of buttercream. Mix up a small bowl of red buttercream also.
  4. Using the star nozzle pipe buttercream onto all of the cupcakes.
  5. Pipe green leaves using the 352 piping nozzle around the wreath on each cupcake. Followed by red berries using the round nozzle.
  6. Using the 104 piping nozzle pipe red ribbons on some cupcakes.
  7. Place little decorative pearls around the tops of the cupcakes anywhere you like.
  8. Place a red ribbon front row center on the cupcake wreath. This wreath can be made 24 hours in advance. Keep covered until ready to serve.