These soft Apple Cinnamon Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting are the perfect dessert for the Fall Season. Great for pitch-ins, potlucks or an alternative Thanksgiving Dessert, they are quick and easy to make.
Course Dessert
Cuisine Holiday
Keyword apple cinnamon, cupcakes, thanksgiving dessert
1small applepeeled, cored and cut into small cubes
Buttercream Frosting
2sticks buttersoftened
4cupsicing sugar
1tspground cinnamon
2-3tbspmilk
½tbspbrown sugar
Instructions
Apple Cinnamon Cupcakes
Line a muffin tin with paper cupcake liners and set aside.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large bowl, beat together sugar and eggs until creamy. Add butter into sugar and egg mixture and beat some more. Add vanilla.
In a separate bowl, sift together all-purpose flour, nutmeg, cinnamon, baking soda and salt.
Add dry ingredients into wet ingredients one third at a time. Add sour cream and mix. Add apple cubes and fold into batter. Scoop about ¼ cup of batter into each muffin section.
Bake for 15-18 minutes. Allow to cool before decorating.
Buttercream Frosting
In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat together all ingredients. Start speed on low and gradually increase to high. Scoop buttercream into a piping bag with Wilton tip #12 attached.
Frost each cupcake generously and sprinkle with brown sugar.
Notes
Cream Cheese Frosting would also taste pretty yummy on these apple cinnamon cupcakes. If your the type that really doesn’t like a lot of frosting on their cupcakes, you could also go with a simple sugar icing on top and maybe sprinkle some cinnamon sugar on top!You could also make these into mini cupcakes. This would be a great option if there are more people to feed or if you don’t like committing to a “whole” cupcake!