Freshly baked- Cherry Pie Cupcakes

For my Mother-In-Law's Birthday, I decided to try out a new cupcake from my NEW cupcake book, What's New Cupcake?
Cupcakes shaped like little pies! (Perfect for my mother-in-law who is the pie-baker for our family holidays).

I baked chocolate cupcakes (from the box) but modified slightly.

Then I tinted the vanilla frosting with yellow food coloring & unsweetened cocoa powder to mimic the color of pie crust.

Then all I needed to top the cupcakes with were some M&Ms. I bought a bag of all red ones at our local Michaels. I was planning on getting blue ones for "blueberries" but they were all out!

The finished product! Closely spaced "Cherries" covered over with piped lines to look like the lattice on top of a pie. I think they turned out well :)