Gluten Free Little Debbie Trees

free from: gluten and dairy (vegan friendly option)

I loved Little Debbies as a kid. These Christmas tree cakes bring back so many childhood memories. I recently same some in the store and was bummed I couldn’t eat them, so I did the next best thing and made these Gluten Free Little Debbie Trees.

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Recipe Details

These Gluten Free Little Debbie Trees are gluten free and dairy free (can be made vegan too). So fun to make and so festive. You’ll need a tree shaped cookie cutter to make this work.

For the chocolate cake mix, I used Simple Mills. I also used Pascha dairy free white chocolate chips, which is my favorite white chocolate option.

These should be stored in an airtight container, and eaten within 1-2 days.

Ingredients Needed

• Chocolate cake mix + required ingredients
• Vegan butter
• Powdered sugar
• Almond milk
• Vanilla
• Vegan white chocolate chips
• Sprinkles

Substitutions:

To make vegan, use an egg substitute like flax egg. This depends on the cake mix you use but most should work with flax egg. Everything else in the recipe is vegan.

You can see how I made these treats on my Instagram:

Let me know in the comments what other Little Debbie copycats you would like to see on here. Also, check out how I used the leftover scraps to make cake pops on my Instagram.

Gluten Free Little Debbie Trees

These Gluten Free Little Debbie Trees are also dairy free. A tummy friendly take on the classic Christmas tree cakes.

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Prep Time 30 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Cooling Time 1 hour hr

Total Time 2 hours hrs

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 6

Equipment

• 1 tree cookie cutter

Ingredients

  

• 1 box chocolate cake mix and required ingredients for mix
• 1/2 cup vegan butter
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp almond milk
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1-2 bags vegan white chocolate chips
• sprinkles

Instructions

 

• Make cake mix as instructed, use a square pan if possible because you’ll get more out of it. Let cool for at least an hour. Once fully cooled, use a serrated knife to cut the cake in half horizontally. Then use a tree shaped cookie cutter to cut out as many pieces as possible.
• Beat softened butter with electric mixer, then add other ingredients and mix until fluffy. Spread frosting on half of the trees, then stack the plain ones on top of a frosted one. Put in freezer for one hour.
• Then melt white chocolate chips. Dip the frozen trees in the melted chocolate, coating evenly and using a fork to flip. Quickly add sprinkles on top, then let settle for 5 min and enjoy.

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