Making the perfect Apple-Spice Cupcakes with Walnuts and Blue Cheese should only take approximately 1 hr 12 min . It’s considered an Intermediate level recipe. Below are the ingredients and directions for you to easily follow. The Apple-Spice Cupcakes with Walnuts and Blue Cheese recipe can feed your family for 14 cupcakes.
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Apple-Spice Cupcakes with Walnuts and Blue Cheese Popular Ingredients
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored, and chopped into 1/4-inch pieces
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 2/3 cups unbleached pastry flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 cups powdered sugar, sifted, divided
- 1/2 cup cream or milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts
- 1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese
- Honey, for drizzling
Steps for making Apple-Spice Cupcakes with Walnuts and Blue Cheese
- For the filling: In a saucepan, combine the sugar, water, apples, cinnamon, and salt. Cook until the apples soften, about 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and add the vanilla. Cool.
- For the cupcakes: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Line standard cupcake pans with 14 cupcake liners.
- Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, sea salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice, ginger, and cayenne pepper into a medium bowl and whisk together. In a liquid measuring cup, mix the buttermilk and vanilla extract. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar, about 5 minutes. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition. Turn the mixer to the lowest speed and alternate adding the flour mixture and buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with the flour.
- Fill the cupcake liners 3/4 full. Place 1 teaspoon Apple Filling on top of each cupcake and lightly swirl into the batter. Bake until golden brown, 17 to 20 minutes. Cool the cupcakes completely.
- For the frosting: In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter with the salt until smooth. Add 1/2 the powdered sugar and mix thoroughly. Add the cream, vanilla, and remaining powdered sugar and beat to desired consistency.
- For the topping: Combine the walnuts and blue cheese, making sure to crumble the mixture after it is combined. Set aside.
- To assemble: Frost each cupcake with a wide, flat “pillow” of vanilla frosting. Dip the frosted cupcake into the walnut and blue cheese topping. To finish, drizzle the cupcake with honey.
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.
- Blue Cheese – Blue cheese or bleu cheese is cheese made with cultures of the mold Penicillium, giving it spots or veins of the mold throughout the cheese, which can vary in color through various shades of blue and green. This carries a distinct smell, either from that or various specially cultivated bacteria. Some blue cheeses are injected with spores before the curds form, and others have spores mixed in with the curds after they form. Blue cheeses are typically aged in a temperature-controlled environment such as a cave. Blue cheese can be eaten by itself or can be spread, crumbled or melted into or over a range of other foods.The characteristic flavor of blue cheeses tends to be sharp and salty. Their distinct smell comes from both the mold and types of bacteria encouraged to grow on the cheese: for example, the bacterium Brevibacterium linens is responsible for the smell of many blue cheeses, as well as foot odor and other human body odors.
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