Cheery Cherry Pie Cupcakes

This past, Thursday I went to my Aunt Karen's house to bake with her.  I pinned a recipe for 

Cherry Pie cupcakes, which my Aunt Karen repinned and said we needed to make together.  I asked her when and Thursday worked out for both of us to get together.  YEY  We had Chicken Salad sammiches for lunch and then got right to baking.

Aunt Karen printed out the recipe.

Lots of ingredients.....We decided to make two batches so we could each have cupcakes.  Each batch makes 16 cupcakes.

Once the cherries are added to the batter it turns a beautiful color.

Fill your batter in your lined cupcake tin.

Bake your cupcakes.

Look at that pretty purplish/pink color.  :)

While cupcakes are cooling you can make your frosting.  This is just the butter mixing.  haha  It's 4 sticks of butter!!!!

Sift your powdered sugar.  I hated this process.  Sifting takes forever.  Aunt Karen did a good job with the sifting.  :)

Sugar and butter mixing.

You need a whole orange of zest.  We didn't use the whole orange because it was a really big orange.

After the frosting is done you can go ahead and take out the middle of your cupcakes and then add your cherry pie filling to the middle of the cupcake.

We used a small melon baller to scoop out cupcake middle and then used another melon baller to fill the cupcakes with the cherry filling.  About 2 to 3 cherries and some of the sauce.

Then frost your cupcakes.  We had to use a small tip so they look kinda funny with the swirls but we did the best with what we had.  We made it work.  :)

You can see the orange zest in the frosting.  This frosting was awesome!!  We only made 1 batch of frosting and we're glad we did because it was more than enough to frost all 32 cupcakes.

Aunt Karen and I split a cupcake to try.  So so good.  :)

Aunt Karen thought it would be cute to add a Maraschino cherry on top of some of the cupcakes.  It gave it extra cuteness.  :)

We had leftover cherry pie filling, frosting and of course the scooped out cupcake middles so Aunt Karen made a little trifle adding some graham cracker crumbs too.  Adorable!  :)

After we were done baking, my cousin Lora stopped over to see me and then we decided to go to dinner.  We went to Logan's Roadhouse.  It was an awesome fun day and dinner.  :)