After a family apple picking event with the CakeMail team, I definitely had to find a cupcake recipe. I finally found it in an IGA supermarket flyer. Sometimes, the real world can be useful! What interested me was the apple pieces inside and the mascarpone icing which is a nice change from the typical cream cheese.
Here is the recipe.
Makes 12 cupcakes
Cupcakes
1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour (I always used non-bleached flour to avoid all the chemicals)
½ cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 cups apple peeled and diced (use apples that don’t squish when cooking, like Lobo)
½ cup milk
½ cup canola oil
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Frosting
1 pack of 275 g of Mascarpone cheese (about 10 oz)
¼ cup maple syrup
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. Line cupcake pan with paper liners.
- Mix the dry ingredients together: flour, sugar, baking powder and cinnamon.
- In another bowl, mix the milk, oil, eggs and vanilla.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and beat.
- Add the apple pieces.
- Put in the pan.
- Bake 20-25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.
- Cool the cupcakes for 5 minutes before removing them from the pans and moving to a rack to cool completely.
To make the frosting:
- Mix the cream cheese and maple syrup. I used a hand mixer.
- Frost the cooled cupcakes, and garnish with apple pieces. I used anise stars.
Team comments:
– 2 thumbs and 2 toes up for these scintillating and sizzling cupcakes-the M & M icing is the piece-de-resistance.. Bravo to the pastry Chef!!!!!!!
– These cupcakes are a perfect match for coffee!
– Good way to use those apples we picked.
My verdict:
Texture is very smooth and tender. From the feedback I got from the team it is not an exotic recipe but since it’s almost a muffin and I didn’t put a lot of icing it’s certainly a nice breakfast. But don’t we eat all kinds of cupcakes for breakfast anyway! 😉
Score: 4/5 cherries
Isabel Lapointe is CakeMail’s Cherry In Chief (and our resident baking expert!). Follow her on Twitter at @CherryInChief.
