Apple Cupcakes

INGREDIENTS
Red food coloring
Simple Buttercream
Vanilla Cupcakes
24 thin pretzel sticks
Sour green apple candy strips (about 2 1/2 feet)

DIRECTIONS
Using food coloring, tint buttercream as desired.

Using an offset spatula, frost the cupcakes with a generous amount of buttercream. Place a pretzel stick in the center of each cupcake to form a stem. Using kitchen scissors, cut candy strips into leaf shapes, and insert one into each cupcake, creating an apple. for each cupcake. Place next to the pretzel stem.