Our berry pie cupcakes are as easy as...pie! The blueberry and cherry filling is blue or red candies, and the frosting is tinted to look like a lattice crust. At your next bake sale, cover the table with these mini pastries, and we promise you will sell out!

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Ingredients
  • 24 vanilla cupcakes , baked in silver foil liners
  • 2 cans (16 ounces each) vanilla frosting
  • Yellow food coloring
  • 1 tsp. unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 cup each red and blue candy (M&M's, Jelly Belly)
  • Directions
    Tint the vanilla frosting with 3 or 4 drops of the yellow food coloring and the cocoa powder to make a light brown for the piecrust. Spread some of the frosting on top of a cupcake, leaving 1/4 inch of the cupcake edge exposed. For the filling, arrange about 25 like-colored candies close together on top of the cupcake. Repeat with the remaining cupcakes and like-colored candies.

    Spoon the remaining light brown frosting into a ziplock bag, press out the excess air and seal. Snip a small (1/8-inch) corner from the bag. For the lattice crust, pipe 4 or 5 lines across the top of a cupcake, about 1/2 inch apart. Pipe 4 or 5 more lines, on the diagonal. Pipe a beaded edge around the top of the cupcake. Repeat with the remaining cupcakes and frosting.

    Arrange the cupcakes on a wire rack and make several bake-sale tags to put with the cupcakes.


    © 2010 What's New, Cupcake? by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson. Excerpted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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