These chocolate-covered pretzel trees are the perfect toppers for festive holiday cupcakes.
Prep Time: 10 mins • Cook Time: 30 mins • Total Time: 40 mins • Serves: 12
INGREDIENTS
- ½ cup white chocolate chips
- Green food colouring
- 12 pretzel sticks
- 12 chocolate cupcakes
- White vanilla frosting
- Shredded coconut
- Sprinkles
DIRECTIONS
- Line a baking sheet with wax paper.
- Lay out pretzel sticks on the lined baking sheet leaving space between them to drizzle chocolate.
- Melt the chocolate chips.
- To prevent your chocolate from seizing, follow this method before adding colour: Place bottles of food colour into a zip-lock bag, remove as much air as possible, and then seal. Submerge the bag in a bowl of warm water for 10 minutes. Remove the bag and shake the bottles to distribute the heat. Stir the food colour into the melted chocolate until the desired hue is reached.
- Use a drizzling tip for your piping bag. Fill the bag with melted chocolate.
- Starting about halfway up your pretzel stick, pipe the melted chocolate in the shape of Christmas trees.
- Before the chocolate hardens, add sprinkles, if desired.
- Let the trees cool for 5-10 minutes to harden up.
- Top your cupcakes with the finished trees.
- Using another piping bag filled with vanilla frosting, pipe a mound of frosting around the base of each tree. Sprinkle the coconut over the vanilla frosting.
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