Apple Cupcakes

Name: Apple Cupcakes
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 9
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 355 milliliters applesauce; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 118 milliliters brown sugar; 237 milliliters brown sugar; 1 stick room temperature butter; 2 sticks butter at room temperature; 1 stick room temperature cream cheese; 4 larges eggs; 473 milliliters flour; 1 teaspoons fresh nutmeg; 9 servings green Fruit Roll Ups; 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 0 teaspoons ground cloves; 237 milliliters toasted pecans, chopped; 1 stick thin pretzel; 1 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters sugar; 9 servings red jimmies or red sanding sugar

The recipe Apple Cupcakes is ready in approximately 45 minutes and is definitely a spectacular vegetarian option for lovers of American food. This recipe serves 9. One serving contains 834 calories, 7g of protein, and 41g of fat. If you have salt, baking soda, brown sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Cream together both sugars with the butter until light and fluffy. (I totally made a mistake and only used 1 stick of butter. The recipe was great, but would have been even better with that extra stick. Oops.)

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Butter

Cream

Put the dry ingredients in a bowl and whisk together.I cannot stress enough what a difference freshly grated nutmeg makes.

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Nutmeg

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Whisk

Bowl

Add the eggs one at a time. Look very serious while your sister is adding the eggs. Serious = adorable.

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Egg

Add the applesauce.

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Applesauce

Mix it all together.

Add in the dry ingredients. Fold in the nuts by hand.

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Nuts

Put the cupcake batter into lined muffin tins. We used red liners to make them look even more like apples.

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Cupcakes

Apple

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Muffin Tray

Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 18 to 20 minutes.Beat the cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy.

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Cream Cheese

Butter

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Oven

Add the brown sugar and beat until combined.Now that I am thinking about it, a sprinkle of cinnamon in that frosting would have been a really good idea.Using a sharp knife or a cookie cutter, cut some leaf shapes out of the Fruit

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Brown Sugar

Cinnamon

Frosting

Fruit

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Cookie Cutter

Knife

Roll Up.Frost the cupcake with the Brown Sugar Buttercream.

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Brown Sugar

Cupcakes

Roll

Sprinkle the red sanding sugar generously on the cupcake. (I think that it works better to dip the cupcake in the sugar, it covers the cupcake better that way.) Stick the pretzel in for the stem and add a leaf.

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Sanding Sugar