Fall is in the air. It’s that time of year… school supplies are on every isle, Halloween is popping up, and so are all kinds of apple themed items too. We’re loving these apple shaped cupcakes, cute as ever! Make a batch for back to school!
With apple cards, candy apples, yarn apples, I can’t seem to get enough. Well, as I was browsing Pinterest, I came across this post from Muses of Megret on baking your cupcakes into Valentine hearts. It’s such a cute and clever way to bake these! It sparked a thought that this method would also make the perfect shape for an apple as well.
Make Apple-Shaped Cupcakes
(SCROLL DOWN TO PRINT RECIPE for Apple-Shaped Cupcakes)
Watch the video for a quick how-to for baking up these apple-shaped cupcakes for a fall time treat! With this special little trick, you’ll have sweet apple-shaped cupcakes to serve your loved ones. It’s such a clever way to bake cupcakes, cute as ever!
Ingredients:
cupcake mix
cupcake liners and muffin tin
marbles or tinfoil
red colored frosting
pretzel sticks
green gumdrops
Method:
1. Over at Muses of Megret, she prefers to use marbles, but if you don’t have them, which for some reason I don’t, to use balls of tinfoil. And I got these great red cupcake liners from Cindy over at Sweet Baking Supply, (they are even scalloped, so cute!) Simply roll your tinfoil into a small 1/2 inch ball and place into the liner. It might pop out until you have your batter into the liners as well.
2. Pour your batter into your liners. You may have to hold down your liners as you pour. Make sure the aluminum foil balls stay in place afterwards.
3. Bake your cupcakes according to your directions and make sure to let them cool.
4. Mix up some red frosting and frost your cupcakes. My favorite tool for this is an offset spatula, a small 1/2 inch wide one. These spatulas are so great for spreading frosting.
5. At the top of the cupcake indent, add a stick pretzel, pressing it 3/4 of the way through. But be careful that it doesn’t come all the way out on the other side.
6. Using kitchen scissors, trim down your green gumdrop into a small leaf size and place it next to the pretzel, on top of the frosting to help it stick.
Cutest Apple-Shaped Cupcakes
Now they are ready to bite into. You can make enough for your child’s classroom, or just a few for their teacher. Just don’t forget to keep a few at home for yourself!
Have fun baking(and eating!) apple-shaped cupcakes for fall!
- cupcake mix
- cupcake liners and muffin tin
- marbles or tinfoil
- red colored frosting
- pretzel sticks
- green gumdrops
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Over at Muses of Megret, she prefers to use marbles, but if you don’t have them, which for some reason I don’t, to use balls of tinfoil. And I got these great red cupcake liners from Cindy over at Sweet Baking Supply, (they are even scalloped, so cute!) Simply roll your tinfoil into a small 1/2 inch ball and place into the liner. It might pop out until you have your batter into the liners as well.
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Pour your batter into your liners. You may have to hold down your liners as you pour. Make sure the aluminum foil balls stay in place afterwards.
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Bake your cupcakes according to your directions and make sure to let them cool.
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Mix up some red frosting and frost your cupcakes. My favorite tool for this is an offset spatula, a small 1/2 inch wide one. These spatulas are so great for spreading frosting.
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At the top of the cupcake indent, add a stick pretzel, pressing it 3/4 of the way through. But be careful that it doesn’t come all the way out on the other side.
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Using kitchen scissors, trim down your green gumdrop into a small leaf size and place it next to the pretzel, on top of the frosting to help it stick.
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*Originally posted 9/9/11
I put real apple pieces in my recipe. Thank you for a great idea!
Red icing is so bitter. I made them Granny Smith green
ABSOLUTELY LOVE THESE CUPCAKES ?! SUCH A GREAT IDEA ??! THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR AMAZING TALENT!
That’s great to hear, Beth. Happy Baking!
My son has back to school night next week and these are absolutely perfect for the PTO bake sale! Super cute!!
Perfect! Yes, great idea for use at a school function. Good luck with the bake sale!
Wouldn’t an actual apple be a better treat?
Hoo that’s so adorable!
Cheers!
Hi, these are so cute! I’d like to make them for school. I wanted you to know I reposted this on my blog http://victorialavender.blogspot.com/2012/09/so-cool-apple-cupcakes.html. I left a link for folks to come to you for the recipe. Thanks so much for all you do!
Victoria Lavender
These are SO CUTE. Pin. Pin. Pin. =))
We just love your apple shaped cupcakes! They look delicious!
Using these for my daughters college graduation party. She is going to be a teacher and we thought these would be so appropriate.
In addition to this a great idea would be to colour the cake batter red or green to make it look more apple like.
I just came across these adorable cupcakes on StumbleUpon…..I love the idea. I think they would be perfect for Valentine’s Day party at my little boy’s school with kids names written on top
I saw these and got inspired, especially since I LOVE apples!
I made these for my mom’s 3rd birthday party (she split it up into 3 different ones based on family availability).
They turned out fine and were fun to make. My aunt and I made butter frosting, and for the mix I used devil’s food cake. If there was a way to upload pictures I would upload mine.
Thanks for the post!
Now that is just too cute. :)
These are so cute! I made them for a meeting at work, using an apple muffin mix from the store. I had a hard time finding green fruit slice gummies at the last minute, but I used green swedish fish instead and they looked just like leaves when turned upside down!
They are so cute! I can’t wait to try them!
These are absolutely adorable! And delicious I’m sure. Although, I think I might try it with a cinnamon stick instead of a pretzel stick! =)
Very cute Marie! Just featured these on Fun Family Crafts :) http://funfamilycrafts.com/apple-shaped-cupcakes/
These are adorable!
Just made these Apple cupcakes for my daughter’s 1st birthday party! We are celebrating at an Apple Orchard and going apple picking! I used cinnamon flavored cupcake mix and mixed in a half of cup of apple sauce :)
so creative & so stinkin’ cute!! any chance those cupcake liners are from the HWTM gift bag… they look familiar ;)
Pretzels stuck in cupcakes – my toddler I’ll LOVE these. They are so cute – can’t wait to make them!
I just wanted to stop by and let you know that I featured this on my “What I Bookmarked This Week” post – stop by and see!
I love this idea, it’s so simple but so cute and effective!
These are so sweet, who would ever have thought? An adorable apple cupcake!
The bright red icing is so yum.
These are mega-cute! Love them!
Thank you, for or very good idea,
Any idea where to find the green gummies? Safeway, Target or Walmart around me….Super cute, will be doing for my son’s pre-k class! :)
You should be able to find gum drop candies in the candy isle of almost all grocery stores. Look for them near where you find candy corn, etc. :)
They are ADORABLE!!!! So perfect for back to school.
These are just darling Marie! I’ve made the heart cupcakes for years, don’t know why I didn’t ever think of making an apple. You are so darn clever!
Thanks for the mention! (And these are super cute!)
Oh my gosh Marie those are so stinking adorable. FB, tweeted, stumbled and pinned!
Those are adorable!