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Bake with Us: How to Make Autumn Pie Buttercream Piped Cupcakes

Celebrate your favourite seasonal desserts with these cute Autumn Pie Buttercream Piped Cupcakes - the cutest autumnal treat! Follow our step-by-step tutorial and stock up on all the products you need to bring them to life.

Every time we head into Autumn, we get so excited about all the classic bakes coming our way! From working with beautiful Fall colours to indulging in our favourite seasonal flavours, there is so much to look forward to. And that includes pie! To celebrate, we're bringing you a tutorial for the cutest Autumn Pie Buttercream Piped Cupcakes!

In our Bake with Us guide, you'll find all the products you need as well as a step-by-step guide AND a YouTube video tutorial (check out the video tab)! Follow along to create these adorable autumn treats that every pie lover will be delighted by.

Our resident baker Holly brought these iconic cupcakes to life, and she is always keen to hear your suggestions for new tutorials! If you have an idea for a project you'd like to see us take on, pop us a DM using the phrase "Bake with Us" and we'll add it to the list.

What you'll need

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Step-by-Step Guide: How to Make Autumn Pie Buttercream Piped Cupcakes

Step One: Start with your pre-baked and cooled cupcakes

Make sure you let your cupcakes fully cool before you go anywhere near them with buttercream! We don't want your pretty designs melting.

Step Two: Make up your coloured frosting

To create these designs, we used the delicious Enchanted Cream from FunCakes, which we coloured with several iconic shades of Colour Mill Oil Blend - Merlot, Orange, Navy, Chocolate, Sand, Rust and Clay. Mix up your coloured frosting and pop into your piping bags.

Step Three: Begin to pipe your shapes

Use a large round tip to pipe your chocolate coloured frosting onto a cupcake, making sure it spreads across in a short dome shape which you can easily spread out to the edges. Do the same with the orange. For the pink/red and blue icing, use a small round piping tip to pipe small dots forming a berry texture.

Step Four: Create your pastry effect pie crust

Using your basketweave piping tip, create that iconic cross-hatched pie crust! Work in two layers, each with two sections. You want to add these to any "berry" flavour pies!

Step Five: Create your pastry crust edge

Using a small petal piping tip (we used the Wilton #102), work around the outside of all of your cupcakes to create that classic ruffled edge.

Step Six: Add a swirl of "cream"!

We used some plain Enchanted Cream with a Wilton #224 Drop Flower piping tip to add a swirl of cream to the top of the pies that don't have the pastry across. This nozzle creates such a perfect shape!

Step Seven: Finish off with some sugar sprinkles

And, because no pie is complete without a sprinkling of sugar, we added a dash of the white Sugarflair Sugar Sprinkles for the perfect finishing touch.

Box up in your window cupcake box, so you can show them off while keeping them safe, and you're ready to go!

Ready to make your own Autumn pie cupcakes?

We are absolutely obsessed with how these cupcakes turned out - they are autumnal perfection! Recreate them in this exact style, or get inspired by your own favourite pie flavours - there are so many options.