Add a fun and festive touch to your Fall with this easy Red Velvet Apple Frosted Cupcakes Recipe!
This summer, I saw the cutest little cupcakes at a bake sale… they were decorated as apples. Â I loved them so much that I decided to make some little apple-looking cupcakes of my own.
Then when these Red Velvet Frosted Cupcakes turned out so cute, I just knew that I had to share this fun Fall Treat with you.
The secret for decorating these cupcakes is to top your Red Velvet Apple Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting that is tinted red. Â Then to use a trimmed down piece of green licorice for the finishing touch.
This Red Velvet Apple Frosted Cupcakes Recipe made from Cake Mix is the perfect treat to serve up at Birthday Parties, Summer cookouts, Back to School celebrations, and Fall get togethers!
So are you ready to make your own adorable Apple Cupcakes? Â Here’s what you’ll need to get these sweet little treats baking in your oven…
Red Velvet Apple Frosted Cupcakes Recipe
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Red Velvet Apple Frosted Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 Red Velvet Cake Mix + oil and eggs
- 24 Red Cupcake Liners
- 12 Green Licorice Sticks
- 4 tbsp. Red Sprinkles
- 16 ounces Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1 Red Food Coloring Gel {for a deep red color}
Instructions
- Bake cupcakes per instructions on cake mix box.
- While your cupcakes are baking, trim your licorice pieces down to small pieces.
- In small mixing bowl, add several drops of Red Food Coloring Gel to your cream cheese frosting, and stir until you achieve your desired color of red.
- Frost the cupcakes with a smooth knife, or pipe on frosting using a star tip or flower tip.
- Then using a knife, poke a flat slit partway down in the center of the cupcake.
- Top your cupcakes with red sprinkles.
- Then gently press down a licorice piece in the center slit of each cupcake, and you're done!
What You’ll Need To Make This Red Velvet Apple Frosted Cupcakes Recipe:
Cream Cheese Frosting
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So have you tried making these Red Velvet Apple Frosted Cupcakes yet??
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Heidi says
Hi Laura ~ I found the green licorice mixed in with a multi-color Twizzler pack at my grocery store {Safeway}. I’ve also seen green licorice sold at Cabela’s before.
This green licorice was actually apple flavor. đ
~ Heidi
Laura Holzhuter says
Where would I find the Green Licorice? Does it still have the same taste as the traditional Red? These look fun! Thanks for sharing! Can’t wait to make them!
tish says
Cute Idea for the fall. I made them for A day in my daughters kindergarten class. Kids loved them
Stacy says
These look so good! I made some similar ones last year for Halloween that looked like pumpkins. They were a lot of fun!
Liz@HoosierHomemade says
Fun! Love the green licorice for the stem!
Thanks so much for adding them to Cupcake Tuesday!
~Liz
Kelly says
Those look awesome!!
sarah says
for the “leaves” there are also the spearmint gummy ones with sugar…..that would be neat too!
Melissa says
you could use red food coloring in the apple cinnamon to make it keep its dark red color
Amanda Farrish says
Wilton makes icing colors that are in gel form and they don’t require so much to make your icing red. Also, if you’re allergic to chocolate or if you wanted to make apple cinnamon cupcakes, you can use the same icing colors to color the cake batter. I made a rainbow birthday cake for my best friend using those and the red was truly red!
Heidi says
Hi Chrystal ~ yes, the Red Velvet does help keep it red. Although… if you did apple cinnamon inside ~ if the cupcake holder didn’t stay red enough, you could always just double them up?? Just a thought! đ
~ Heidi
Chrystal says
Adorable!!! Does the red velvet help make the bottom part so red? Because I was really hoping it would be apple cinnamon inside… (imagining how yummy that would taste!) But the red color really does sell it. Decisions decisions…