Apple Pie Cupcakes

Apple Pie Cupcakes

Yields: 18 cupcakes

I gathered these quality ingredients:

(for the cupcakes)

3 cups sifted cake flour

1 tbsp. baking powder

½ tsp. salt

1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature

2 cups sugar

4 eggs

1 ½ tsp. vanilla extract

1 cup milk

(for the apple filling)

4 tbsp. salted butter

2 tsp. cinnamon

2-3 tbsp. sugar

4 large Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and diced

Spray-on vanilla icing 

To make the cupcakes, preheat the oven to 350°. Line cupcake pans with paper liners.

In a medium bowl, I sifted together the cake flour, baking powder and salt:


Today’s baking was brought to you by the number eleven, portrayed here by the butter and sugar:

After their sponsorship photoshoot, I creamed them together on medium-high speed in my Kitchen-Aid until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes: 

This recipe suits step-by-step photography well as the next instruction is to add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well and scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition. So here is a photo before each egg was beat in.

Egg #1:

Egg #2:

Egg #3:

Egg #4:

I added the vanilla extract and began alternating between adding the milk and the dry ingredients:

Soon I had a rich batter:

I overfilled the cupcakes tins. I always do. Some of the cupcakes were still not as full and fluffy as I like them. This beauty shows that some did come out quite nice though:

Next, to make the apple filling, I melted the butter in my big frying pan over medium heat:

Once it was melted, I added the cinnamon and sugar (have to admit here I was afraid for my pan, but it’s T-Fal and it came out ok):

The recipe I built this off of used only 2 tbsp. of butter and the cinnamon mix was really thick for this heart photo:

I ended up throwing in another 2 tbsp. of butter before I added these apples:

They mixed up quite nicely: 

I cooked them for about 10 minutes, they were tender and delicious. I set them aside to cool:


While they cooled I cored the cupcakes:

They were so adorable: (and the middles tasted goooood too!)

Once the apple mix was cooled, I spooned it into the cupcakes: 

These babies were sooo good, I don’t feel inclined to share them with anyone!: