Apple Cinnamon Cupcakes

Something simple in between, made for a meeting with the 'conceptualisation' team for our next play :)

Well, there were loads of apples in our fruit basket and about three pounds of butter... Flash of genius: Apple cupcakes with cinnamon butter cream!

All you need is:

300 g flour
1 sachet baking powder
1 pinch salt
125 g butter (at room temperature)
150 g sugar
2 eggs
150 ml milk
1 apple


250 g butter (at room temperature)
250 g icing sugar
loads of ground cinnamon (to taste)


Actually the muffin recipe makes 12 rather large muffins. But since I wanted to top them with butter cream, I made them slightly smaller and finally got 19. When it comes to filling the muffin caps, there will be a picture, so that you can see how much dough went in, actually.


Step 1: Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl.

Step 2: In another bowl mix butter, sugar and eggs. Then, slowly add the milk.

Step 3: Peel the apple and remove the seeds. Then, cut it into dice it as finely as desired. My dices had an edge length of about half a centimetre.

Step 4: Add the flour mixture to the egg mixture and stir until well combined. Fold under the apple dices.

Step 5: Now, either grease your muffin pan, or fill each cup with a paper muffin cap. <linguist> Cup... cap... cup... cap... minimal pairs, yay :) </linguist> Fill in about one and a half tablespoons of dough, cf. picture. Bake for about 20 minutes on 180°C. Check whether they are done by inserting a toothpick. Does it come out clean? Done!

Step 6: Let the muffins cool down.

Step 7: Sift all the icing sugar and mix it with the butter until light and fluffy. Then, add as much cinnamon as you like. I added about one teaspoon full, but next time it will definitely be MOOOOORE :)

Step 8: The muffins have cooled down? Ok, so take a small spatula or a knife and spread some butter cream onto each muffin. You can pipe swirls on them as well, but I think you will need some more butter cream for that. If you do it the lazy way - as I did - this amount of butter cream will be sufficient.

Ok, now have a guess what I forgot... Right... taking photos of the finished cupcakes... Well, actually, they were nothing fancy because I did not pipe the cream onto them, but spread it on with a knife ^^ Nevertheless, they were yummie... At least I was told so :)