Easy Christmas Cake (Tree)
Easy Christmas cake recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Starts off with a sheet cake. This festive holiday cake looks like a tree and is decorated with green buttercream roses, sprinkles, candies.
Servings: 8 Slices
Calories: 704kcal
Ingredients
- 1 Yellow sheet cake
- 3 cups Buttercream icing Colored light green and dark green
- 1 cup Chocolate frosting
- ½ cup Sprinkles and candies I used red and white sprinkles as well as mini m&m candies
Instructions
- Bake cake in a 9x13 cake pan and allow it to cool fully.
- While the cake is baking and cooling, prepare the frosting and color half in a light green shade and half in a darker green shade.
- Cut the sheet cake to make 2 large triangles and 2 small rectangles. It would be helpful to use a toothpick to mark the top first before using a knife to make final cuts.
- Place one triangle cake on a cake board.
- Fill a piping bag with dark green icing and attach a French tip (Wilton Tip 4B).
- Pipe little stars on top of the cake until fully covered.
- Place the other triangle cake on top of the icing and press gently to secure properly.
- Fill a piping bag with light green icing attach a large star tip (Wilton Tip 1M) and pipe large roses on top of the cake randomly until covered. Leave the little gaps between each flower empty.
- Fill the gaps by piping little stars, using the French tip and dark green icing.
- Make the tree trunk now by placing one rectangle cake below the prepared triangle layer cake.
- Fill a piping bag with chocolate frosting and attach a French tip (Wilton Tip 4B).
- Pipe little stars on top of the cake until fully covered.
- Place the other rectangle cake on top of the icing and press gently to secure properly.
- Pipe little stars on top again until fully covered.
- Toss some red sprinkles and mini m&m candies on the top green portion of the cake.
- Toss some white sprinkles on the bottom brown portion of the cake and you are done. Enjoy.
Notes
- The cake must cool fully before you start decorating.
- The consistency of icing should be medium-firm. If icing is too soft and runny from the heat in your kitchen or your hands, it will become hard to pipe. Chill in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes to help stiffen up.
- Consider using a small star tip, or grass tip or petal tip or even a round tip for a different buttercream design.
- Read additional tips and variations above.
- Leftovers can be stored in a sealed container in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Nutrition
Calories: 704kcal | Carbohydrates: 129g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 8g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 678mg | Potassium: 115mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 98g | Vitamin A: 0.3IU | Calcium: 141mg | Iron: 2mg