DIY - Apple Cupcakes

{Image Via Martha Stewart}

Celebrate the fall harvest or back to school with these precious little cupcakes resembling freshly picked apples.

Ingredients

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

Directions

1. Using food coloring, tint buttercream as desired.
2. 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.