Apple Cupcakes
Easy, kid-friendly Apple Cupcakes made with cake mix and premade frosting. Perfect for teacher gifts, classroom parties, and fall gatherings.
Servings: 24
Equipment
- Muffin tin (or two 12-cup tins)
- aluminum foil
- Mixing bowl and whisk or hand mixer
- Offset spatula or butter knife for frosting
- wire cooling rack
Ingredients
- 1 box yellow cake mix + ingredients from the back of the box water, oil, eggs
- 1 container of red premade frosting
- 24 green M&Ms
- 12 pretzel sticks
Instructions
- Prepare the cupcake batter, according to box directions.
- Add your cupcake liners to your muffin tin.
- Then, take small amounts of foil and roll into a ball.
- Add to one side of each cupcake liner.
- Add your batter to the cupcake liners, filling 2/3 full.
- Bake, according to box directions.
- Allow the cupcakes to cool completely.
- Add red frosting to the cupcakes, then break each pretzel stick in half, adding a half pretzel stick to each cupcake to make the stem.
- Then, add a green M&M.