Apple Cupcakes
From pepe56 15 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 24
Tasty and delicious!! I use homemade apple butter when I make mine, but you can just as easily use store-bought.
Ingredients
- For the cakes - shopping list
- * 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature shopping list
- * 1 cup vanilla sugar (see the note) shopping list
- * 3 large eggs shopping list
- * 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract shopping list
- * 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour shopping list
- * 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg shopping list
- * 1 teaspoon baking soda shopping list
- * 1/2 teaspoon fine salt shopping list
- * 1/2 cup sour cream shopping list
- * 1 large Gala or other baking apple, peeled, cored, and finely chopped (about 1 cup) shopping list
- * 1/2 cup apple butter shopping list
- For the frosting - shopping list
- * 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature shopping list
- * 1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature shopping list
- * 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract or vanilla paste shopping list
- * 1 teaspoon lemon juice shopping list
- * 4 cups confectioners' sugar shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 24 muffin tins with paper liners.
- Using a hand mixer or standing mixer, cream the butter and vanilla sugar together until fluffy, about 2 to 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time and vanilla extract, beating until smooth.
- Combine the flour, nutmeg, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Add half the flour mixture to the creamed butter, then add the sour cream, and then the rest of the flour. Beat until well combined, taking care not to over mix. Gently fold in the chopped apples.
- Divide batter between prepared muffin tins, filling them 1/2 way full. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cupcakes comes out clean and the tops spring back when pressed gently, about 20 minutes. Cool the cupcakes in the tin on a rack for 10 minutes then remove from the tin and cool completely.
- Put apple butter into a small pastry bag with an open tip Squeeze a small amount into the center of each cupcake. Continue cooling completely. Then frost with icing.
- To make the frosting:
- Using a hand or standing mixer, beat cream cheese and butter together, at medium speed, until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add in vanilla and lemon juice. On low speed, gradually add in confectioners' sugar and beat until well combined. Frost as desired.
- Note: To make vanilla sugar, tuck a whole vanilla bean into some granulated sugar. In day or two you have lovely vanilla flavored sugar.
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