Holiday Wreath Cupcakes

Name: Holiday Wreath Cupcakes
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 425 grams cherry pie filling; 1 green fruit roll strip; 1 container white icing; 6 larges store-bought un-iced large chocolate cupcakes or jumbo muffins; 1 teaspoon peppermint extract; 6 smalls red cinnamon candies; 6 servings Green sanding sugar

Holiday Wreath Cupcakes

Holiday Wreath Cupcakes requires around 20 minutes from start to finish. This recipe covers 5% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Watching your figure? This dairy free recipe has 527 calories, 2g of protein, and 13g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 6. A mixture of cherry pie filling, sanding sugar, peppermint extract, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful.

Instructions

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Special equipment: 1 pastry bag fitted with medium star tip Aluminum foil Saucer

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Aluminum Foil

Pastry Bag

Slice off the top half of the top portion of each cupcake or muffin. Using a teaspoon carve a small amount of the cake so that you are left with a shallow indentation about 1-inch deep and place 1 tablespoon of the cherry pie filling into the indentation. Smooth into a circle.

Ingredients you will need

Cherry Pie Filling

Cupcakes

Add the peppermint extract to the frosting container and mix. Fill a pastry bag fitted with a star tip with the frosting. Pipe the icing around the circumference of the cherry pie filling to the edge of the cupcake.

Ingredients you will need

Cherry Pie Filling

Peppermint Extract

Frosting

Cupcakes

Icing

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Pastry Bag

Cut the fruit roll into 6 thin strips about 6 inches long. Tie each strip into a bow and place onto the edge of the icing.

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Fruit

Icing

Roll

Place a red cinnamon candy in the center of the bow using a bit of icing to secure it. Repeat with remaining bows and candies. Lightly sprinkle the icing with green sanding sugar.

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Red Cinnamon Candy

Sanding Sugar

Candy

Icing

Cut out 6 (6 by 6-inch) squares of foil. Stack the foil squares on top of each other and place a saucer on top of the foil. Using scissors cut around the saucer so that the foil is a perfect circle.

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Kitchen Scissors