Spiced Apple Cupcakes
Spiced Apple Cupcakes | Kick off the Fall with the best apple cupcakes! With lots of Fall spices, shredded apples and a creamy delicious cinnamon cream cheese frosting. These cupcakes are the perfect treat to take to a Fall gathering like a school carnival cake walk. Want the most popular booth at the bake sale? Then take these cupcakes! More great treats for a bake sale would be…. Candy Apple Cupcake In a Jar, Circus Animal Puppy Chow or Carnival Soda Can Cupcakes.
Get a jump on all your Fall baking….these cupcakes freeze beautifully!
MORE FALL DESSERT RECIPES
CRUNCHY PUMPKIN CINNAMON BUNDT CAKE 2. PECAN PIE BARS 3. LAYERED PUMPKIN MARSHMALLOW CHOCOLATE MOUSSE
Spiced Apple Cupcakes with Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough Frosting
Yield:
Makes 12 Cupcakes
Prep Time:
30 minutes
Cook Time:
25 minutes
Total Time:
55 minutes
Cookie dough frosting!
Ingredients
For the Cupcakes:
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/3 cups unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cups light brown sugar, packed
- 4 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups apple juice
- 2 cups apples, shredded
For the Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 1 Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting recipe
Instructions
For the Cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line muffin tin with 24 paper liners.
- In a large bowl combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt; set aside.
- Cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy.
- Add the eggs on at a time and the vanilla.
- Alternate the flour and apple juice in the butter mixture until well combined.
- Fold in the shredded apples.
- Fill lined muffin cups equally divided into 24 cupcakes ( I use an ice cream scoop).
- Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Cool completely before frosting.
For the Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting:
- Follow directions for the Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting recipe.
These look amazing! Can’t wait to make some. Thanks for the recipe! 🙂
Just found your site today! Love it!
Sounds soooo good! Thanks for sharing at Foodie Friends Friday!
Oh Yum! I found your recipe from Mom’s Everyday meals.
How perfect for fall! Yum! Thanks for sharing at Church Supper. Have a blessed week & come back soon !
OK, you topped your pumpkin cookies. I will be pinning this cupcake…amazing, love everything about it the frosting is genius too.
Wow- those all look so good!
Absolutely love it if you could link up this (and a couple other recipes) to Wonderful Food Wednesday at http://www.athometake2.com.
Hope to see you there!
Jessica @ At Home Take 2
I love fall, if for no other reason than everyone starts baking with apples and spices. These sound perfect and I can’t wait to give them a go. Pinned!
Just to let you know I included your dessert in an apple recipe roundup. I will be tweeting etc it this week.