Christmas Tree & Santa Hat Cupcakes

Instructions

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1. - Bake cupcakes.Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake cupcakes in red and green cupcake liners. Move to a rack to cool completely before decorating.
2. - Frost cupcakes.Using spatula, frost cupcakes with white buttercream. Top with desired sprinkles.
3. - Make trees and hats.Using an edible marker, mark a line around a sugar cone at 2 inches from the tip. Using a wet brush, wet cone at mark and cut the cone following the line. Repeat for a total of 24 mini cones.
4. - Tint frosting.Using green and red food coloring, tint 1/2 cup frosting each green and red.
5. - Decorate trees and hats.Using a spatula, frost half of the cones with green frosting. Cover with green sanding sugar. Repeat with red frosting and red sanding sugar on the remaining half of the cones.
6. - Decorate cupcakes.Place red cones on cupcakes with green liners and green cones on cupcakes with red liners.
7. - Prepare a decorating bag with tip 5 and white frosting. Pipe fur around the bottom edge of red cones and on top of the red cones to form Santa hats.
8. - For trees, pipe a dot of icing on top of the green cones. Attach a yellow star sprinkle.

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