Making the perfect Apple-Peanut Butter Cupcakes should only take approximately 1 hr 45 min . It’s considered an Easy level recipe. Below are the ingredients and directions for you to easily follow. The Apple-Peanut Butter Cupcakes recipe can feed your family for 12 servings.
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Apple-Peanut Butter Cupcakes Popular Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (see Cook’s Note)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 2 sticks (16 tablespoons) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 large crisp sweet apple, such as Gala, peeled, cored, and finely chopped (about 1 cup)
- 2 cups creamy peanut butter
- Two 8-ounce packages cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened
- 3 cups confectioners’ sugar
Steps for making Apple-Peanut Butter Cupcakes
- Chopped roasted peanuts, for sprinkling
- For the cupcakes: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line 24 muffin tins with paper liners.
- Whisk the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg together in a medium bowl. Beat together the butter and granulated sugar using an electric mixer on medium-high speed until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, and then the vanilla, beating until smooth.
- Reduce the mixer speed to low and beat in half the flour mixture until just combined. Mix in the sour cream, and then add the rest of the flour. Beat until well combined, taking care not to overmix. Stir in the chopped apples.
- Divide the batter among the prepared muffin tins, filling them halfway full. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cupcakes comes out clean and the tops spring back when pressed gently, about 20 minutes. Cool the cupcakes in the tin on a rack for 10 minutes and then remove from the tin and cool completely.
- For the frosting: Beat the peanut butter, cream cheese and butter in a large bowl using an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Reduce the speed to low and beat in the confectioners’ sugar until incorporated. Pipe or spread the frosting on the tops of the cupcakes and sprinkle with the peanuts.
Popular Categories for this Recipe
- Cupcake – A cupcake (also British English: fairy cake; Hiberno-English: bun) is a small cake designed to serve one person, which may be baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup. As with larger cakes, frosting and other cake decorations such as fruit and candy may be applied.
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- Fruit – In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering.Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particular have long propagated using the movements of humans and animals in a symbiotic relationship that is the means for seed dispersal for the one group and nutrition for the other; in fact, humans and many animals have become dependent on fruits as a source of food. Consequently, fruits account for a substantial fraction of the world’s agricultural output, and some (such as the apple and the pomegranate) have acquired extensive cultural and symbolic meanings.In common language usage, “fruit” normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures (or produce) of plants that typically are sweet or sour and edible in the raw state, such as apples, bananas, grapes, lemons, oranges, and strawberries. In botanical usage, the term “fruit” also includes many structures that are not commonly called “fruits”, such as nuts, bean pods, corn kernels, tomatoes, and wheat grains.
- Sugar – Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose, fructose, and galactose. Compound sugars, also called disaccharides or double sugars, are molecules made of two monosaccharides joined by a glycosidic bond. Common examples are sucrose (glucose + fructose), lactose (glucose + galactose), and maltose (two molecules of glucose). Table sugar, granulated sugar, and regular sugar refer to sucrose, a disaccharide composed of glucose and fructose. In the body, compound sugars are hydrolysed into simple sugars.Longer chains of monosaccharides (>2) are not regarded as sugars, and are called oligosaccharides or polysaccharides. Starch is a glucose polymer found in plants, and is the most abundant source of energy in human food. Some other chemical substances, such as glycerol and sugar alcohols, may have a sweet taste, but are not classified as sugar.Sugars are found in the tissues of most plants. Honey and fruit are abundant natural sources of simple sugars. Sucrose is especially concentrated in sugarcane and sugar beet, making them ideal for efficient commercial extraction to make refined sugar. In 2016, the combined world production of those two crops was about two billion tonnes. Maltose may be produced by malting grain. Lactose is the only sugar that cannot be extracted from plants. It can only be found in milk, including human breast milk, and in some dairy products. A cheap source of sugar is corn syrup, industrially produced by converting corn starch into sugars, such as maltose, fructose and glucose.Sucrose is used in prepared foods (e.g. cookies and cakes), is sometimes added to commercially available processed food and beverages, and may be used by people as a sweetener for foods (e.g. toast and cereal) and beverages (e.g. coffee and tea). The average person consumes about 24 kilograms (53 lb) of sugar each year, with North and South Americans consuming up to 50 kilograms (110 lb) and Africans consuming under 20 kilograms (44 lb).As sugar consumption grew in the latter part of the 20th century, researchers began to examine whether a diet high in sugar, especially refined sugar, was damaging to human health. Excessive consumption of sugar has been implicated in the onset of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and tooth decay. Numerous studies have tried to clarify those implications, but with varying results, mainly because of the difficulty of finding populations for use as controls that consume little or no sugar. In 2015, the World Health Organization recommended that adults and children reduce their intake of free sugars to less than 10%, and encouraged a reduction to below 5%, of their total energy intake.
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- Cooking pots
- Frying pan
- Steamers
- Colander
- Skillet
- Knives
- Cutting board
- Grater
- Saucepan
- Stockpot
- Spatula
- Tongs
- Measuring cups
- Wooden Spoon
