Apple-Spice Cupcakes with Walnuts and Blue Cheese

Name: Apple-Spice Cupcakes with Walnuts and Blue Cheese
Prep time: 1 h 12 min
Cook time: 1 h 12 min
Total time: 1 h 12 min
Yield: 14
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking powder; 0 teaspoons baking soda; 118 milliliters crumbled blue cheese; 177 milliliters buttermilk; 0 teaspoons cayenne pepper; 118 milliliters cream or milk; 2 larges eggs; 1 Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored, and chopped into 1/4-inch pieces; 0 teaspoons ground allspice; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 0 teaspoons ground cloves; 0 teaspoons ground ginger; 1 teaspoons ground nutmeg; 14 servings Honey, for drizzling; 394 milliliters unbleached pastry flour; 946 milliliters powdered sugar, sifted, divided; 1 teaspoons salt; 0 teaspoons sea salt; 1 teaspoons sea salt; 59 milliliters sugar; 237 milliliters sugar; 118 milliliters (1 stick) unsalted butter; 237 milliliters (2 sticks) unsalted butter; 0 teaspoons vanilla extract; 1 Tbsp vanilla extract; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 118 milliliters finely chopped walnuts; 59 milliliters water

The recipe Apple-Spice Cupcakes with Walnuts and Blue Cheese could satisfy your American craving in about 1 hour and 12 minutes. One portion of this dish contains approximately 5g of protein, 28g of fat, and a total of 551 calories. This recipe serves 14. This recipe covers 8% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up water, sugar, vanillan extract, and a few other things to make it today. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet.

Instructions

For the filling: In a saucepan, combine the sugar, water, apples, cinnamon, and salt. Cook until the apples soften, about 3 minutes.

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Cinnamon

Apple

Sugar

Water

Salt

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Sauce Pan

Remove from the heat and add the vanilla. Cool.

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Vanilla

For the cupcakes: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Line standard cupcake pans with 14 cupcake liners.

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Cupcakes

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Muffin Liners

Oven

Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, sea salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice, ginger, and cayenne pepper into a medium bowl and whisk together. In a liquid measuring cup, mix the buttermilk and vanilla extract. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar, about 5 minutes.

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Vanilla Extract

Cayenne Pepper

Baking Soda

Buttermilk

Allspice

Cinnamon

Sea Salt

Butter

Clove

Ginger

Nutmeg

Cream

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Measuring Cup

Whisk

Bowl

Add the eggs, 1 at a time, scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition. Turn the mixer to the lowest speed and alternate adding the flour mixture and buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with the flour.

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Buttermilk

All Purpose Flour

Egg

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Blender

Bowl

Fill the cupcake liners 3/4 full.

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Cupcakes

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Muffin Liners

Place 1 teaspoon Apple Filling on top of each cupcake and lightly swirl into the batter.

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Cupcakes

Apple

Bake until golden brown, 17 to 20 minutes. Cool the cupcakes completely.

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Cupcakes

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Oven

For the frosting: In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter with the salt until smooth.

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Frosting

Butter

Cream

Salt

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add 1/2 the powdered sugar and mix thoroughly.

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Powdered Sugar

Add the cream, vanilla, and remaining powdered sugar and beat to desired consistency.

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Powdered Sugar

Vanilla

Cream

Combine the walnuts and blue cheese, making sure to crumble the mixture after it is combined. Set aside.

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Blue Cheese

Walnuts

To assemble: Frost each cupcake with a wide, flat "pillow" of vanilla frosting. Dip the frosted cupcake into the walnut and blue cheese topping. To finish, drizzle the cupcake with honey.

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Vanilla Frosting

Blue Cheese

Cupcakes

Walnuts

Honey