SPICED APPLE CUPCAKES

Enjoy fall's best flavors with these spiced apple cupcakes, featuring a brown sugar frosting and optional praline sauce filling.

Ingredients

Butter Flour Cinnamon Nutmeg Baking soda Salt Eggs Apples White & brown sugars Applesauce Oil Vanilla extract Maple extract Pecans

Melt butter over medium heat in a small skillet until it turns a golden brown. Whisk occasionally. Remove from heat. This is our brown butter.

1

Stir together the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl. These are our dry ingredients. Set aside.

2

Whisk together the brown butter, eggs, grated apples, white and brown sugars, applesauce, vegetable oil, vanilla extract and maple extract until combined. These are our wet ingredients.

3

Spoon about a ¼ cup of dry ingredients into the batter and mix to fully blend. Repeat this process until you mix in all the dry ingredients. Stir in chopped pecans.

4

Spoon the batter into the muffin liners. Fill about half way to two-thirds the way up the liners. Bake.

5

If desired, fill each cupcake with a pecan praline sauce and top with a fluffy, decadent brown sugar buttercream frosting.

6

Readers love it!

That frosting is perfect! I love that you used applesauce in these cupcakes too. Really made for an extra moist cupcake.

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