Ingredients:
Chiffon cake: 1 (6-inch); Whipped cream: 300g; Granulated sugar: 30g.
Additional ingredients:
Red food coloring: a little; Green food coloring: a little; Brown food coloring: a little; Sugar pearls: as needed.
Flavor: Sweet; Technique: Baking; Time: Several hours; Difficulty: Easy.
Step-by-step Cooking Instructions for Christmas Tree Buttercream Cake
Ingredients: 300g whipped cream, 1 6-inch chiffon cake, 30g granulated sugar, a little red food coloring, a little green food coloring, a little brown food coloring, sugar pearls as needed. Tools: pointed flower nozzle, flat flower nozzle, leaf nozzle, fine piping bag, piping turntable, electric mixer.
Slice the cake horizontally into three equal layers, removing any cake crumbs.
Take two-thirds of the whipped cream, add two-thirds of the sugar, and beat with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form.
It should hold its shape when piped.
Take one cake layer, place it on a cake board, and spread a layer of cream on top.
Stack the second layer, and spread another layer of cream on top.
Place the third layer on top, trim the edges with a knife to create a small slant.
Smooth the cream over the surface of the cake.
Use a toothpick to roughly outline the shape of a Christmas tree on the surface of the cream.
Add green food coloring to the remaining cream to create a green color.
Fill a piping bag fitted with a pointed nozzle with the green cream and pipe the outline of the main part of the Christmas tree.
Using a star-shaped tip, fill the entire side from the top edge of the slant to the bottom of the cake with green cream.
Add brown food coloring to the cream, use a flat flower nozzle to fill in the trunk part of the tree.
Finally, add the remaining sugar and red food coloring to the remaining whipped cream, whip up pink cream, and use a leaf-shaped nozzle to pipe two opposite leaves on the inner edge of the green circle and decorate the Christmas tree with a few more.
Pipe a ring of pink leaves on the bottom edge of the side, and add some scattered decorations on the side.
Finally, switch to a fine piping bag and pipe thin pink ribbons on the Christmas tree.
Also pipe some thin ribbons on the side.
Finally, place sugar pearls in the center of each pink leaf to finish.
