Christmas cupcakes – Christmas balls mini-cupcakes decoration ideas

Preparation time: 20min | Cooking time: 15min | Servings: 12 (mini cupcakes)

My daughter loves cupcakes and at this time of the year I have decided to make her a little surprise:)

She has just decorated a Christmas tree at school, so she was telling me how beautiful it was with all the Christmas balls (or boules or baubles, whatever you call them!). So one day, for her after-school snack I made these Christmas cupcakes. At first I wanted to make a decoration from fruits, but it was rather hard for the mini-cupcakes. Perhaps that could work better for the normal size ones. Anyway, a little bit of sweet treats during Holiday time will make no harm:)

We have invited my daughter’s friend to join us for an afternoon play time, so I have put all the cupcake balls into a Christmas tree mold. Girls were amazed! I regret I had no time to take a picture of their “wow” faces:) I must also say, I had hard time to stop them eating!  

• 1/2 cup of flour
• 1/4 cup of sugar
  
• 1/4 cup of butter
  
• 4 tablespoons of milk
• 1 tablespoon of Greek yogurt
• 2 eggs
  
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
  
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
  
• pinch of salt
• 60g of chocolate
  
• chocolate chips (optional)
• colored sugar
• Xmas sprinkles
• desiccated coconut
• fruit candies

For the cream:

• 3/4 cup of whipping cream (36-40% milk-fat)
• 1/2 cup of Mascarpone
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar
• 1/2 cup of sugar