Peanut Butter Cup Trees

By jenlin

Ingredients

• 24 Reese's peanut butter cup miniatures (from a 12 oz bag)
• 12 standard-size Reese's peanut butter cups (.75 oz each)
• 12 snack-size Reese's peanut butter cups (.55 oz each)
• 12 Reese's peanut butter cup minis (from an 8 oz bag)
• 1 cup Royal Icing
• 12 small red or white candy stars (such as SweetWorks)
• 1 tablespoon assorted red or white sprinkles

Details

Servings 12
Preparation time 10mins
Cooking time 10mins
Adapted from familycircle.com

Preparation

Step 1

Refrigerate all peanut butter cups for 15 minutes to chill (this makes for easier handling and unwrapping).

Spoon Royal Icing into a ziplock bag. Press out excess air and seal bag. Line a cookie sheet with wax paper. Unwrap peanut butter cups and place on prepared cookie sheet.

Snip a small (1/8-inch) corner from bag with icing. Place a miniature peanut butter cup bottom side up on work surface. Pipe a dot of frosting on top and attach one standard-size peanut butter cup bottom side up. Pipe a wavy line of vanilla frosting around top edge, allowing it to hang over edge. Add a snack-size peanut butter cup and repeat with icing, stacking with a second miniature cup and finishing with a mini cup, to make a 4-layer (5 with the base) Christmas tree shape.

Add a star candy to top and scatter some sprinkles over tree. Repeat to create 11 more peanut butter cup trees.

Royal Icing - 1 16 ounce box confectioners sugar. 6 T warm water, 3 T powered egg whites like Just Whites. Combine all and beat with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth and fluffy - 5 minutes - cover with plastic wrap until ready to use.