Christmas Tree Cupcakes

These are made with the new silicone Wilton Christmas tree pan  I've used silicone pans before without much success.  This pan was completely different.  I just stretched the silicone away from each side of the tree, and they came right out.  I thought they would take longer to bake because of the depth of the pan, but no problem there either. A 'winner' silicone pan. lol.  The cakes are chocolate with a candy cane kiss inside of each.The icing is a peppermint buttercreme.  Very tasty.

Nut rolls

I have never made nut rolls before. I always thought they were too much work, but they aren't bad at all.  This dough is left over from a class we took on Thursday.  We had to make apricot in the class, but I wanted to try nuts. Not a real apricot fan. lol.  These don't look that great. I hope the fresh dough will help them look a little better.

The class was ok. I'm not fond of an instructor that eats dough off her fingers as she is teaching. lol.  Maybe I'm a germ-a-phob, but yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Not very likely to take another class with her.