Take a bite out of Apple Cupcakes

Baking cupcakes are all the rage – there’s even a television show devoted to two women running a cupcake store, appropriately named The Cupcake Girls.

I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon and share a recipe that’s perfect when you need treats to send in with your child for a classroom party or as a fun activity to do as a family.

Found in the FamilyFun Magazine, The Apple of Our Eye recipe makes adorable cupcakes that look like a bitten apple. One reader said she ventured out and made red, yellow and green apples, making it a more colorful platter.

Apple Cupcakes

Ingredients:

• Yellow or white cupcake batter (a box mix is fine!)
• Red frosting
• Red sugar sprinkles
• Tootsie Roll Midgees
• Green Tootsie Fruit Roll
• White frosting

Directions:

1. Mix your favorite while or yellow cupcake batter and divide it evenly among cupcake wells lined with red paper or silicone cups, filling each one about three-quarters full.
2. Bake the cupcakes according to the recipe directions and let them cool.
3. Carve a shallow, dime-size well in the top of each cupcake, then cover the tops with red frosting and coat them with red sugar sprinkles.
4. Mold a small piece of a Tootsie Roll Midgee into a stem shape. Form a leaf from a small piece of green Tootsie Fruit Roll, pinch it against the stem, then insert the stem into the cupcake.
5. To make a bitten apple, spoon a small well from the side of the cupcake and line it with white frosting. Press tiny bits of Tootsie Roll Midgee in place for seeds.

You can see a picture of the finished cupcake here.

Lauren Bocskocsky is a Project Manger at Mom Central and a recent graduate of Bentley University.

Stacy DeBroff

Stacy DeBroff, founder and CEO of Mom Central.com and social and digital consultancy, Influence Central, is a social media strategist, attorney, and best-selling parenting author. A sought-after expert for national media, she trend-spots regularly with national brands and speaks frequently to national and international audiences on a wide range of subjects, including influencer marketing, social media, entrepreneurship, and consumer trends. A passionate cook, gardener, reader, and tennis player, she adores this new chapter of post-college-age parenting.