Christmas Trees with a Secret" Cake

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Ingredients

For the frosting:

250 g butter

500 g powdered sugar

7 tbsp milk

Green food coloring

Vanillin to taste

Salt

For the dough:

3 cups flour

2 cups water

1.5 cups sugar

6 tbsp cocoa powder

3 tbsp vegetable oil

1.5 tbsp 9% vinegar

2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1.5 tsp vanilla sugar

For the filling:

Strawberries

For decoration:

Decorative dragees

Cookies

Whip the soft butter thoroughly until stiff and white. Sift the powdered sugar and add it to the mixture. Add vanilla, salt, and food coloring and whisk thoroughly. When the mixture is smooth and elastic, add milk (5-8 tablespoons) until the desired cream consistency is achieved. Beat for 5-7 minutes.

Prepare small cupcakes. Mix all dry ingredients: flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, salt, and vanilla sugar. Sift twice through a sieve.

Pour in the vinegar, then the oil, mixing with a fork each time! Do not whisk! Pour in the water and mix with a fork or spoon. Do not whisk too long!

Pour the chocolate cupcake batter into the molds and bake for 30 minutes at 180-200°C. This mixture makes approximately 24 cupcakes.

Decorate. Frost the cupcakes with cream and secure the berries. Refrigerate until the strawberries adhere well. Use a pastry bag fitted with the smallest star tip and fill it with our green frosting.

Starting at the bottom, begin piping spruce branches onto the berry in a circle. Place the tip of the tip against the berry and begin piping frosting until you've squeezed out a column about 1 cm thick, then stop pressing and release your hand holding the envelope.

First, stop pressing and only then release your hand. Continue in this circle all the way to the top, staggering the columns relative to the previous row. Decorate the finished tree with jelly beans and a star.

Bon appétit!