Christmas cupcakes

Here are some cute designs to stick on your cupcakes or cookies this holiday season.

First you'll want to frost your cupcake or cookie with a nice basic color. I chose white. You can make it easier by piping a swirl and the spreading it out. You want your basic color in a piping bag anyway, so it comes in handy.

Christmas tree:
Pipe a frosting cone on your cupcake. For this you start with your round tip almost touching the cupcake. I used a #10 tip, you want a big tip, nothing below #7.

Then squeeze out frosting and slowly raise your tip away from the cupcake. You want the tip of the tip to stay in the frosting cone your making while piping.

Be sure to gradually make your cone smaller as you move up until you reach your desired height. End it with a point.

Next you'll want to put green frosting in a piping bag with a star tip. You can use a #24 or #27 tip. (You can also use a leaf tip if you like that look better but I think the star tip makes it look more like a pine tree.)

To make the bows of your pine tree just start squeezing with the star tip at the base of your frosting cone and pull out making it as long as you desire. Then as you work your way up the frosting cone make your tree limbs shorter.

Then you can decorate your tree any way you want with round sprinkles, piping dots, or piping garlands.

Wreath:
Use a star tip and you could either pipe a squished shell boarder or make a continuous squiggly line. Then finish it off with a bow.

These look festive are super fun to make and are even more fun to eat!
Have a Merry Christmas!