Apple Cupcakes

Name: Apple Cupcakes
Yield: Makes 24
Ingredients: Red, yellow and green food coloring, as desired; Simple Buttercream for Apple Cupcakes Simple Buttercream; Vanilla Cupcakes Vanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream Icing; 24 thin pretzel sticks; Sour green apple candy strips (about 2 1/2 feet)

This dessert is the perfect homage to the fall apple harvest, covering a moist and flavorful vanilla cupcake with colored frostings to resemble a newly picked apple.

Yield: Makes 24

Source: Martha Stewart Living Television

Ingredients

Red, yellow and green food coloring, as desired
Simple Buttercream for Apple Cupcakes Simple Buttercream
Vanilla Cupcakes Vanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream Icing
24 thin pretzel sticks
Sour green apple candy strips (about 2 1/2 feet)

Directions

Using food coloring, tint buttercream as desired.
Using an offset spatula, frost the cupcakes with a generous amount of buttercream. Place a pretzel stick in the center of each cupcake to form a stem. Using kitchen scissors, cut candy strips into leaf shapes, and insert one into each cupcake, creating an apple. for each cupcake. Place next to the pretzel stem.