{"id":624,"date":"2013-10-30T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev6.finelimedesigns.com\/2013\/10\/30\/apple-cupcakes-with-cream-cheese-frosting\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T15:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:35:25","slug":"apple-cupcakes-with-cream-cheese-frosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bakeschool.com\/apple-cupcakes-with-cream-cheese-frosting\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiced Apple Cupcakes With Thick Cream Cheese Frosting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you are looking for a simple fall baking recipe, try this recipe for apple cupcakes with cream cheese frosting<\/strong>. The cream cheese frosting is not too sweet and very thick and pipeable. The cupcakes are moist and flavoured with apple butter and fall spices<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apple butter is my secret ingredient for adding a strong, highly concentrated apple flavour to baked goods without adding any water to a recipe. It's a much more efficient way of adding apples without diluting flavour or messing with cake batter ratios, thus avoiding gummy textures that can come from adding fresh chopped fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I've baked with apple butter to flavour apple cakes\u2014 like in this apple butter cake recipe<\/a>; in scones\u2014slathered inside to make the most delicious apple pie scones<\/a>; and I've also used it in pie filling in this gorgeous apple butter pie<\/a>, which makes a great alternative to Thanksgiving pumpkin tarts<\/a>\u00a0and maple apple pie<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These mini spiced apple cupcakes are flavoured with apple butter and cinnamon for a truly fall flavour, and topped with a cream cheese frosting that tastes like cheesecake. Yes, I really did pipe dollops of frosting that are practically the size of the cupcakes themselves. You will understand why when you make this frosting.<\/p>\n\n\n[feast_advanced_jump_to]\n\n\n

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These moist apple cinnamon cupcakes with cream cheese frosting are made from simple ingredients that you likely have on hand. Still, there are a few things to note:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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