With this easy decorating tip, you and your kids can turn a batch of homemade or store-bought cupcakes into a festive treat.

What you’ll need

• Cooled cupcakes (baked from your favorite recipe)
• White icing
• Grated coconut
• Green gumdrops
• Sugar, for sprinkling gumdrop leaves
• Red candy for holly berries (M&Ms work well)

Christmas Cupcakes

How to make it

1. Frost the cupcakes with snowy white icing and top with grated coconut.
2. Then use a rolling pin to flatten green gumdrops on a piece of waxed paper sprinkled with sugar. Use an aspic cutter or butter knife to cut out holly leaf shapes.
3. Arrange two or three leaves and a few red candy “berries” on top of each cupcake, pressing them into the rosting just enough to hold them in place.