Happy Pi Day, Apple Pie Cake

For those math people out there today is March, 14 or 3.14 the beginning of Pi the mathmatical constant. Pi is the ratio of a circl's circumference (the round part) to its diameter. So I decided to make a pie cupcake, an Apple cake decorated like a mini pie. 

Ingredients

Cake

1 Cup Butter, softened

2 Cups Sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon Vanilla

4 Apples, shredded

1 Tablespoon lemon juice

2 1/4 Cup all-purpose flour

2 teaspoon Baking Soda

2 teaspoon Cinnanom

1/2 Nutmeg, ground

1/2 Cloves, ground

Frosting

6oz Cream Cheese, softened

1 teaspoon Vanilla

3 1/2 Cups Powder Sugar

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 standard muffin tins with paper liners; set aside. Combine together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves in a medium bowl.

Take you shredded apples and stir them up with the lemon juice.

Cream the butter and sugar with your mixer, on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes.

Add in eggs and vanilla. Reduce speed to low; mix in apples.

 Add flour mixture; mix, scraping down sides of bowl as needed, until just combined.

Divide batter among lined cups, filling half to 3/4 full.

 Bake till a toothpick come out clean when inserted in the center, 22-28 minutes. Let cool in pans for about 5 minutes then remove cupcakes from pans and let cool on wire racks.

For frosting, beat the cream cheese till soft, add vanilla and combine. On a low speed add the powder sugar in small increments, till it is all added. This will be the glue for the fondant "pie crust".

Take about 1 to 1 1/2 cups fondant (I used pre made but you can use you own home made if you want), just eye ball it. Now take some ground cinnamon, you will use this as your pie crust coloring. I start with about a teaspoon and increased after kneading it using shortening to keep it from sticking, till  I got the coloring I wanted. Divided it in thirds so it is easier to work with. Roll it out till about a 1/4 inch thick. Take a round cookie cutter that is about 2 inches and cut out as many as you can.

Make room and with each circle cut out roll that out further till it is big enough to cover the top, plus a little extra of the cupcake. Frost the top of your cupcake just enough to cover it. Take your rolled out fondant and cover your cupcake.

tuck and pinch your extra fondant like you would a pie crust. Take a fork and crimp the edges of your "crust" and cut vent holes.

Using gum paste glue if you have it or water brush the top with a small amount and sprinkle with sugar. 

To make a apple, using red colored fondant. Roll into a small ball and make an intention in the top for the leaf and shape into an apple shape so not to look like a cherry.

The make the leafs, using green fondant, pull off a very small amount and form into a leaf shape, and take a sharp knife and put in the veins for the leaf. Taking a tooth pick and water/gum paste glue, glue the leaf on pressing with the toothpick. Glue the apple on the top of you "pie."

Now you have an Apple Pie! Happy Pi Day!