Golden Apple Cupcakes No Guilt Food

BIG APPLE CRUMBLE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• For the crumble:
• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• In a medium mixing bowl, combine all of the ingredients, and mix together using your fingertips. Spread the crumb mixture on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper, and bake for 30 minutes or until the crumble reaches a golden brown color. Let cool and set aside. Leave the oven on to bake the cupcakes.
• For the cupcakes:
• Line a cupcake pan with twelve paper baking cups and a second pan with six baking cups.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt, and set aside.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer or in a bowl with a handheld electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, approximately 3 to 5 minutes.
• Add the eggs one at a time, mixing slowly after each addition.
• Add one third of the flour mixture to the butter mixture, then gradually add one third of the hot water, beating slowly until well incorporated. Add another third of the flour mixture, followed by a third of the hot water. Add the remaining flour mixture, followed by the remaining hot water, and beat just until combined. Stop to scrape down the bowl as needed.
• Using a spatula, fold the grated apple and half of the apple crumble mixture into the batter.
• Using a standard-size ice cream scoop, fill each baking cup so that it is two-thirds full. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes (start checking at 15 minutes) or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean. After 5 minutes, transfer the cupcakes to a wire rack to cool completely for approximately 20 minutes.
• For the frosting:
• Place all ingredients in the bowl of a stand mixer or in a bowl with a handheld electric mixer. Beat until the frosting is light and airy, approximately 3 to 5 minutes. Frost each cupcake with a signature swirl (see below), and top with a sprinkling of the remaining apple crumble.

APPLE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Line muffin tins with cupcake papers.
• Put the grated apples, sugar, water, butter, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves into a large saucepan and bring to a boil.
• Cool; add flour and soda.
• Fill paper lined cupcake tins 2/3 full.
• Bake until cupcakes spring back when touched in the center.

APPLE PIE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• For the filling: Toss the apples, granulated sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon and salt together in a medium bowl. Melt the butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. Add the apples, and cook, stirring frequently, until the apples are tender but still pliable and the liquid is simmering, about 6 minutes. Add the flour, and stir until it dissolves and the liquid thickens. Remove the skillet from the heat, and let the filling cool completely. Divide the filling evenly into 12 little packed mounds; set aside.
• For the cupcakes: Position an oven rack in the center of the oven, and preheat to 350 degrees F. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners, and coat the liners and the top of the tin with cooking spray.
• Whisk the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt together in a medium bowl. Beat the sugar and eggs in another medium bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and creamy, about 2 minutes. While continuing to beat, gradually pour in the butter, then add the vanilla. Adjust the mixer to medium-low, and add half the flour mixture. Add the milk, then the remaining flour mixture, taking care not to overmix the batter. It will be thin, like pancake batter; transfer it to a liquid measuring cup to make filling the muffin cup easier.
• Divide the batter evenly among the cups of the prepared muffin tin. Top each with a mound of apple filling. Bake for 15 minutes (the cupcakes will spread quite a bit). Remove the tin from the oven, gently brush the tops with melted butter and sprinkle with granulated sugar. Continue to bake until the tops of the cupcakes, which bake and puff around the apple filling, spring back when pressed, 6 to 8 minutes more. Let the cupcakes cool in the tin for a few minutes, then transfer to a rack to cool completely.
• For the whipped topping: Beat the cream, confectioners' sugar and sour cream in a medium bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until the mixture forms soft peaks. Transfer it to a pastry bag or a resealable plastic bag (snip off the tip). Pipe a dollop of whipped topping onto each cupcake (don't completely hide the cupcake), and sprinkle with cinnamon.

CARAMEL APPLE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F Place paper baking cups into 24 muffin pan cups; set aside.
• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and apple pie spice in medium bowl. Combine all remaining cupcake ingredients except apples in large bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until well mixed (2 to 3 minutes). Add flour mixture; stir until just moistened. Stir in apples.
• Fill each prepared muffin cup with about 1/4 cup batter. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove cupcakes from pans; cool completely.
• Combine 1/2 cup brown sugar, 4 tablespoons half & half and 2 tablespoons butter in 1 1/2 quart saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until butter is melted and sugar is dissolved (4 to 5 minutes). Remove from heat. Stir in enough powdered sugar for desired frosting consistency, adding additional half & half, if necessary. Stir in vanilla. Frost cupcakes.
• Tip: An easy way to shred the apples is to core and halve them before shredding. Leave the peel on for a little color and texture.

GOLDEN APPLE CUPCAKES (NO GUILT)

Steps:

• In bowl, combine cake mix, applesauce, oil and eggs; blend according to package directions.
• Spoon batter into 24 paper-lined muffin pan cups.
• Mix brown sugar, walnuts and cinnamon; sprinkle over batter.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan 10 minutes.
• Remove from pan; cool on wire rack.

APPLE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• For the cake: 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.
• For 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.

APPLE AND CINNAMON CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to Gas Mark 5 or 190 degrees for fan assisted ovens.
• Receive a bowl and sift flour into the bowl. Once the flour has been sifted, add you butter. Use your fingertips to create a breadcrumb like mixture with the two ingredients. Put the bowl to one side.
• Peel your apples and grate them over a bowl. Once this has been done put you apples one side.
• To your breadcrumb like mixture, add the egg, apples and sugar. Stir until you get a cupcake like batter. Add the cinnamon and begin to stir again.
• Scoop out the batter evenly across your cupcake cases and then place then, on a baking tray, in the heart of the oven. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.
• Once they have been baked, place them on a cooling rack and leave them to cool. When they are at a reasonable heat, pop one into your mouth and taste the deliciousness! :)

SPICED APPLE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• First, make the decorations. Roll out the green fondant on a surface dusted with the sugar to a ½cm thickness. Cut out 12 small 'leaves' using a cutter or knife. Set aside on some baking parchment. Roll the brown fondant into 12 x 1cm 'stalks'. Set aside with the leaves.
• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Line six holes of a 12-hole cupcake tin with red cases, and the other six with green. For the cake batter, beat the butter and both sugars with an electric whisk until light and fluffy. Slowly mix in the eggs, then fold in the flour, baking powder, grated apple and spices until fully incorporated.
• Fill the cases three-quarters full and bake for 30-35 mins, or until golden and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Leave to cool completely in the tin. Meanwhile, make the icing. Beat the butter until light and creamy, then add the sugar and vanilla, and beat for 5 mins more until fluffy and pale.
• Spoon the icing into a piping bag fitted with a large round nozzle. Working from the outside towards the centre, pipe the icing in a swirl over the cupcakes, applying a good amount of pressure to the bag. Use a small palette knife to smooth the icing into neat domes, then chill the cupcakes for 30 mins to firm up.
• Tip the red and green sanding sugars into separate bowls. Dip the tops of the cupcakes with the red cases into the red sugar, and those with green cases into the green sugar, turning to fully coat the icing.
• Make little indentations in the top of the icing for the fondant stalks, and add the leaves around them.

GOLDEN VANILLA CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F) and have your cupcake liners ready in the pan.
• Whisk soy milk and apple cider vinegar and set aside to curdle.
• Then, beat together the soy milk mixture, oil, sugar, vanilla extract, and almond extract.
• Sift in the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix until smooth.
• Fill cupcake liners and bake for 20-25 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean.