Cupcake Christmas tree - Good Food Middle East

Ingredients

• 200g butter, softened
• 200g golden caster sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 200g self-raising flour
• 2 tbsp milk
• 300g butter
• 525g icing sugar
• 3 tsp vanilla extract
• green food colouring
• sweets, to decorate (we used Haribo Droppys and Waitrose jelly diamonds)
• large white chocolate star, to decorate
• edible gold spray
• 24-hole mini muffin tin
• 48 green mini-muffin or petit four cases
• small plant pot or mini bucket (roughly 13cm across the top)
• 12cm foam cone (measured across base)
• cocktail sticks
• green paint