If you love apple cupcakes, I have the recipe for you. Apple cupcakes with apple pie filling! Can it get any better? Maybe because these cupcakes are easy to make as well. You have to try these cupcakes.
Ingredients
Cupcake ingredients:
1box of spice cake mix
3large eggs room temp
1/2Cof softened unsalted sweet cream butter
1Cwhole milk
Apple Pie topping ingredients:
2tbspunsalted butter
6cupspeeled and chopped gala apples
1/2Csugar
1/2tspground cinnamon
1 1/2Cwater
2tspcornstarch
Frosting Ingredients
1Cunsalted sweet cream butter, softened
2 1/2Cpowder sugar
1tspvanilla
1tbspground cinnamon
3-5TBSPheavy whipping cream
1large piping bag, fitted with a star tip
Instructions
Cupcake Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Using a standing mixer, combine the cake mix, eggs, milk and butter and mix until combined
Scoop cupcake batter into the liners, filling 3/4 way full
Bake in the oven for 21 minutes.
While the cupcakes are baking, make the apple pie filling
Apple Pie topping directions:
Using a medium pot, melt the butter
Stir in the apples, sugar and cinnamon.
Mix in 1 C of water until combined and bring to a low simmer
In a small bowl, combine the remaining 1/2 C of water with the cornstarch, and whisk lightly until smooth.
Add the cornstarch mixture to the apples and cook 1-2 minutes more, until the mixture has thickened.
Let cool completely
Frosting Directions:
Using a stand mixer, combine all ingredients and mix on medium speed.
Mix until you see stiffed peaks in your frosting and scoop into piping bag
Decorating Directions:
Using the frosting, pipe the frosting onto the cupcakes, making sure to keep the tip of the frosting flat so that the apple pie filling can sit on the frosting
Scoop about 1-2 tbsp of the apple pie filling onto the top of the cupcakes