Blueberry Pie Cupcakes Plus Easy Decorating Tips for Anyone

Aren’t these just so cute!?! We are sharing another fun and festive treat with you today! Again, when you can learn to make the fun treats on your own, you save loads of money and have fun in the process. This recipe is going to be very easy and quite thrifty.

As a couple of time, allergy and money modifications: first, making all of this yourself from scratch is probably going to give you the greatest savings, but for time sake, you can also buy pre-made cupcakes and just add the blueberry pie decor on top to save time. You can also use a store-bought cake mix and make cupcakes from that! In addition, you can also but pre-made white frosting to save a little time.

Also, you can make these gluten-free by using the Gluten-Free flour recipe that makes super fluffy GF blueberry pie cupcakes.

Finally, we wanted to point out that these will be easy to decorate and the cute little “blueberries” under the frosting lattice is simply just Skittles! It is the tropical flavors variety and the blue Skittles inside the bag!

So now let’s share the “from scratch” recipe with you!

Cupcake Ingredients:

1/2 C unsalted butter, room temp
2 egg whites
2 eggs
2 C flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 baking soda
3/4 C buttermilk
1 1/2 C sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Frosting Ingredients:

1 C unsalted butter, softened
3 C powder sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 C heavy cream
Tan gel food coloring

Blue Berries:

Bag of Tropical  Skittles…. use the blue ones.

Royal Icing:

2 egg whites
1 C powder sugar
1/2 tsp cream of tarter
Add 1/4 C powder sugar until stiff peak form
Tan gel food coloring

Cupcake Directions:

-Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
-Line cupcake pan with paper liners.
-Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda together in a bowl.
-Beat butter on high for 30 seconds.
-Add sugar and  vanilla extract to the butter until well combined.
-Add egg whites, one at a time, mixing after each.
-Add eggs, one at a time, mixing after each.
-Add 1/3 C  flour mixture to the wet mixture followed by adding  1/3  C of the buttermilk; add 1/3 C flour mixture again then add 1/3 C  buttermilk mix on low speed, add 1/3 C of flour and add the rest of 1/3C of buttermilk mix in low speed until  thoroughly blended.
-Scoop the batter into the lined cupcake holders till 2/3 filled.
-Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until an inserted
toothpick comes out clean.
-Cool for 10 minutes.
-Remove to a wire rack until fully cooled

Frosting Directions:

-Beat the softened butter on its own until smooth.
-Add vanilla extract.
-Add powder sugar with heavy cream  into the creamed butter until it becomes a smooth and thick texture.
-If the frosting is too thick, add more heavy cream, if  the frosting is too thin, add more powder sugar.
-Take a spoonful of the frosting and hold the spoon upside down  if the frosting drops off the spoon add more powdered sugar .
-Take 1 C of the white frosting in a bowl….. Second bowl add several  drops of tan gel food coloring… stir well……Second bowl add several drops of blue gel food coloring…. Stir well.
– Using a butter knife spread the white frosting on each of the cupcakes.  This will act as the “glue” for the “blueberries”.

Blueberry Directions:

-Place individual blue skittles on the frosted cupcakes as if they were blue berries.

 Directions for Lattice Tops:

-Using the tan colored icing …. scoop into a pastry bag with a medium sized tip.
-Outline the cupcake to look like a pie crust.
-Scoop the rest of the tan frosting into a smaller pastry bag with a small tip to make  crust marks across the top of the “blue berry pie”.

I know it looks like a lot of steps, but it really isn’t! The only real detailed part is the very end for the lattice tops! The rest is our basic cupcake making process. 🙂

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