How to Make White Chocolate Christmas Trees

White Chocolate Christmas Trees – The easiest festive treat you’ll make this Christmas.

Just four ingredients, 20 minutes and a piping bag. Perfect for making with kids and brilliant as edible gifts too.

Makes 12 trees | Prep: 10 mins | Chill: 20 mins | Total: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 200 grams white cooking chocolate
• 12 pretzel sticks (the long thin variety)
• 2 tablespoons star-shaped sprinkles or edible gold stars (for the tree tops)
• 2 tablespoons mixed Christmas sprinkles (baubles, snowflakes, stars)
• 🔗 Piping Bags and Nozzles Set
• 🔗 White Cooking Chocolate

Steps To Make White Chocolate Christmas Trees

1. Prepare your baking sheet: Line a large baking sheet with baking paper and set it on a flat surface near your workspace. You’ll need to work fairly quickly once the chocolate is melted, so have everything ready before you start — sprinkles in small bowls, piping bag fitted with a small round nozzle, and pretzel sticks laid out nearby.
2. Melt the white chocolate: Break 200 grams white cooking chocolate into small pieces and place in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water. Stir gently until completely melted and smooth — don’t let the bowl touch the water and don’t rush it. White chocolate is more temperamental than dark, so keep the heat low and patient. Remove from the heat once fully melted.
3. Fill your piping bag: Pour the melted chocolate into your piping bag. Twist the top to seal it and snip a very small hole at the tip if using a disposable bag. A small, even opening gives you much more control over your tree shapes — start smaller than you think you need.
4. Pipe your Christmas trees: Place a 12 pretzel sticks (the long thin variety) vertically on the baking paper to act as the tree trunk. Starting just above the pretzel, pipe a small zigzag of chocolate to form the tree shape — wide at the bottom, narrowing as you work upward to create a classic triangle. Three or four zigzag passes gives the best tree shape. Leave a centimetre of pretzel showing at the bottom as the trunk.
5. Add your decorations: While the chocolate is still wet, immediately scatter 2 tablespoons mixed Christmas sprinkles (baubles, snowflakes, stars) over the tree and press a single 2 tablespoons star-shaped sprinkles or edible gold stars (for the tree tops) right at the very tip of each tree as the star. Work quickly — white chocolate sets faster than you expect, especially if your kitchen is cool.
6. Set in the fridge: Slide the baking sheet into the fridge and leave to set completely.
7. erve or gift: Once fully set, carefully peel each tree from the baking paper. Serve immediately on a festive plate or pack into cellophane bags tied with ribbon for a gorgeous edible gift. These keep well in the fridge for up to five days.

Notes:

Make it colourful: Add a few drops of green gel food colouring to the melted white chocolate before piping for proper green Christmas trees. Use gel rather than liquid colouring to avoid the chocolate seizing.

Gift idea: These look beautiful packed into a small gift box with tissue paper, a brilliant homemade Christmas gift that costs very little to make and looks genuinely impressive.

Chocolate tip: Always use cooking chocolate rather than eating chocolate for piping, it melts more smoothly and sets with a better finish.

For younger children: Skip the piping bag and simply dip the pretzel sticks directly into the melted chocolate, then lay flat on baking paper and decorate with sprinkles. Less precise but just as delicious and much more toddler-friendly.

Whether you’re making a festive plate of treats for Christmas Day, looking for something fun to bake with the kids on a rainy December afternoon, or putting together homemade edible gifts, these white chocolate Christmas trees never disappoint.

Simple, sweet and genuinely Christmassy — exactly what festive baking should be.

👉 Love a fun festive bake? Try our Grinch Heart Rice Krispie recipe – another brilliant one to make with kids.

👉 Want something a little more grown-up? Our light Christmas tiramisu is just 242 calories and ready in 30 minutes.