Apple and worm cupcakes

Serves:

Ingredients

• 1 quantity basic cupcakes
• 1 quantity buttercream icing
• red food colouring
• 1 plastic straw
• pretzels
• Gummi Worms
• mint leaf lollies

Method

Step 1. Make up the vanilla cupcakes as per the recipe.

Step 2. Bake as directed.

Step 3. Make your buttercream icing and add a few drops of colouring at a time until you have a rosy, apple red colour. Spread buttercream icing on cooled cupcakes.

Step 4. Push a piece of broken pretzel into the cupcake to  resemble a stalk. Push the plastic straw in to make a hole and poke one end of the Gummi Worm inside so it looks like it is emerging from the apple. Add a mint leaf either side of the pretzel to create leaves.

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Serving Suggestions

Note

• If you want to make this these cupcakes but need a quick shortcut then you can use a packet mix of vanilla cupcakes with icing included and then tint the included icing.
• If red apples aren’t your favourite you can use green food colouring to make green apples.
• This recipe was created by Jennifer Cheung for Kidspot,New Zealand's best recipe finder.