Transform your holiday baking with these adorable Christmas tree brownies – a simple, fun, and delicious festive treat that’s perfect for family gatherings, cookie exchanges, or gifting to neighbors. Made from a boxed brownie mix and topped with vibrant green frosting and sprinkles, this easy Christmas brownies recipe creates bakery-worthy holiday brownie trees that look impressive but take minimal effort. Whether you’re a beginner baker or a seasoned pro, these chocolate Christmas tree brownies will become a new family favorite during the holiday season.

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Why You’ll Love This Christmas Tree Brownies Recipe

These holiday brownie trees combine rich chocolate flavor with creative stacking and decorating, making them ideal for kids to help with. They’re not just cute – they’re customizable! Swap sprinkles for crushed candy canes or add mini chocolate chips for extra flair. Plus, this recipe uses everyday ingredients, so you can whip up a batch in under an hour. Searching for more festive Christmas treats? Check out our Cranberry Pistachio Shortbread Cookies or classic Snowball Cookies.

Don’t these Christmas Tree Brownies look like something you’d order at a bakery! Yet you can totally impress your friends, neighbors, family with these adorable chocolate holiday treats!

Let’s get into how to make these festive treats!

Christmas Tree Brownies Supply List:

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brownie mix & ingredients needed for mix (water, oil, egg)
green frosting (recipe to follow)
holiday sprinkles (I used red, white, and green ball sprinkles)
yellow stars (perfect star for the top of the Christmas tree)
disposable piping bag (makes for easy decorating)
Wilton Star tip (1m)
3 – round cookie/biscuit cutters in varying sizes

How to Make Christmas Tree Brownies: Step-by-Step Instructions

Prepare and Bake the Brownies:

First you need to make the brownies. I just use a boxed brownie mix. I’ve tried homemade brownies, but I love boxed brownies… I personally think they always taste better. You make what you like though. Make sure to use butter of cooking spray in the bottom of your pan, or parchment paper so that you can easily remove the brownies from the pan.

You want to bake your brownies in a 9 x 13 pan in the oven. While your brownies are cooling you can make up your frosting.

Christmas Tree Brownies Frosting

A fun Christmas dessert treat that everyone will love!!! Brownies and frosting with cute candies make these fun trees.

Maryann @ Domestically Speaking

Serving Size 6 trees

Ingredients

1 brownie mix make according to directions and let cool

Frosting

2 C. powdered sugar
1/2 C. butter softened to room temperature
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2-3 tbsp. milk
green food coloring

Instructions

Combine the powdered sugar, softened butter and vanilla extract. Add in 1 tablespoon of milk at a time, as needed until the frosting as reached your desired consistency.
Attach the star tip to the piping bag and fill the bag with green frosting.

Cut and Stack the Brownie Layers:

Once the brownies are cool is time for the assembling fun! Now for each Christmas Tree Brownie you need to cut out three different sized circles of brownie. My circles are approximately 3″, 2″ and 1″ circles.

Gently squeeze the frosting out of the bag and onto the top of each brownie (I started with the biggest and stacked

Top the last brownie with frosting to resemble to top of a Christmas tree.

Decorate Your Holiday Brownie Trees

Add a star to the top of your tree and sprinkle on some festive sprinkles as you like. Here is where you can let the kids get as creative as you like. You could have some crushed candy canes, chocolate chips, etc.

Repeat with the rest of the brownies.