The Lorax's Truffula Trees!

A few simple ingredients are all you need to bake up some delicious and cute truffula trees for a Lorax party! Serve them on a brightly colored cake stand for guests to enjoy!

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24 mini truffula trees



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    Ingredients

    • 1 box Betty Crocker White Cake mix
    • 1 stick butter, softened
    • 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
    • 10 drops green food coloring
    • 1 package pretzel stick rods
    • 2 packages cotton candy

    Directions

    1. 1Bake white cupcakes in mini-muffin pan according to package instructions.
    2. 2Beat butter for 1 minute and add powdered sugar in 1 cup intervals, beating thoroughly between each addition, until creamy. Add in vanilla and cream. Beat well for 2 minutes. Add in green food coloring until frosting is grass green.
    3. 3Use a fluted pastry tip to pipe grass on top of cooled mini cupcakes.
    4. 4Place tufts of cotton candy on top of pretzel sticks using a bit of extra frosting to help stick the two together.
    5. 5Stick the pretzel rod carefully into the center of the grass green cupcake.

    Categories: Desserts, Cakes, American

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    Anonymous User
    Anonymous said:

    Make the trucks with white chocolate dipped pretzels and color a bit of the white choc gray for movie type stripes. :)

    9/2/2012 4:15:26 PM
    iamaveronica

    I am unable to save this into my "Saved Recipes Box," and would like to. Please make this option available?

    3/9/2012 3:26:20 PM
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    Anonymous said:

    These turned out really cute but they don't hold well over night. The cotton candy got hard and fell apart...

    3/2/2012 8:07:57 AM
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