Apple and Cinnamon Cupcakes
- Prep time:
- 30 mins
- Cook time:
- 20 mins
- Serves:
- Makes approx 24
Ingredients
Juice of 2 large lemons
2 eating apples of your choice, peeled, cored and chopped into very fine pieces
220g caster sugar
220g butter
4 eggs
350g self-raising flour
1tsp ground cinnamon
You’ll also need:
2 x 12-hole muffin trays
24 cupcake papers
Method
1. Preheat the oven 190°C/375°F/Gas Mark 5. Line two 12-hole muffin trays with cupcake papers.
2. Squeeze the lemons into a small bowl and set 2tbsp of juice aside until required. Pour the rest of the juice over the chopped apples to prevent the apple going brown.
3. Beat together the sugar and butter in a large mixing bowl. Add the eggs one at a time and beat well after each addition. Add 2tbsp of lemon juice. Add the flour and cinnamon, and mix together.
4. Put 2tbsp of mixture into each cupcake paper. Divide the chopped apple evenly between the cupcakes and place on top of the cake mixture. Top with the remaining mixture.
5. Bake for 20 mins in the preheated oven, or until the centre springs back when lightly pressed.
6. Cool cupcakes in the muffin trays for 5 mins before removing the cupcakes to a wire rack to cool completely.
7. Decorate with lemon buttercream frosting and a thinly sliced apple and edible glitter.
8. To make the stripes in the apple decorations, use a vegetable peeler to remove a stripe of peel from around the apple in a spiral before slicing thinly and placing on the cupcakes.