Brown Sugar Apple Cupcakes

Can you guess what my favorite fruit of the moment is? That's right. Apples. After, vanilla custard apple cake and vanilla yogurt apple crisp, I still want more apples in my baked goods.

So I came up with:

Brown sugar apple cupcakes

At first, I was going to make caramel apple cupcakes but I couldn't find any caramel sauce or dulce de leche at the supermarket. I wasn't going to make it from scratch again. So I had to change my plan which, by the way, turned out brilliantly (for a change.)


Diced apples

I started with my favorite cupcake recipe (you know 2 3/4 cups flour, 4 eggs, 2 sticks butter, 2 cups sugar, etc.) Replaced all the liquid with diced 3 apples (about 3 cups), reduced sugar to 1 cup of white sugar and 2/3 cup of brown sugar.



For the frosting, I made brown sugar cream cheese frosting using all brown sugar (not the usual confectioner sugar) plus a tablespoon of corn starch as a guarantee that the frosting won't melt and fall apart during transportation.

Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting

• 1 package of cream cheese


• 1 cup packed light brown sugar


• 1/4 cup heavy cream


• 1 tablespoon corn starch

I just beat all the ingredients together with an electric mixer until smooth and fluffy. You might want to sift brown sugar. I didn't. And I had a few tiny clumps of it in the frosting which I painstakingly forked out one by one as I frosted my cupcakes.


Cupcakes fresh out of the oven