Cute and festive blueberry pie cupcakes that are really easy with using the shortcuts!
Author: Cassie from The Thrifty Couple
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Ingredients
Cupcake Ingredients:
½ C unsalted butter, room temp
2 egg whites
2 eggs
2 C flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
¼ baking soda
¾ C buttermilk
1½ C sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Frosting Ingredients:
1 C unsalted butter, softened
3 C powder sugar
1 tsp vanilla
¾ C heavy cream
Tan gel food coloring
Royal Icing Ingredients:
2 egg whites
1 C powder sugar
½ tsp cream of tarter
Add ¼ C powder sugar until stiff peak form
Tan gel food coloring
Blue Berries:
Bag of Tropical Skittles.... use the blue ones.
Instructions
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 ⅓ C flour mixture to the wet mixture followed by adding ⅓ C of the buttermilk; add ⅓ C flour mixture again then add ⅓ C buttermilk mix on low speed, add ⅓ C of flour and add the rest of ⅓C of buttermilk mix in low speed until thoroughly blended.
-Scoop the batter into the lined cupcake holders till ⅔ 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".
Directions for Frosting:
-Place individual blue skittles on the frosted cupcakes as if they were blue berries.
-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".
Recipe by The Thrifty Couple at https://thethriftycouple.com/blueberry-pie-cupcakes-plus-easy-decorating-tips-for-anyone/