Name: Apple Butter Cupcakes
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 18 min
Total time: 38 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1/2 cup Butter; 1 1/2 cup Brown Sugar; 2 Large Eggs; 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract; 1 1/2 cup Apple Butter (Homemade is amazing, but I've also tried Musselman's from the store and it is delicious too!); 1/2 cup Water; 1 1/2 cup All-Purpose Flour; 2 1/2 tsp Baking Powder; 1 tsp Baking Soda; 1 tsp Salt; 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon; 1/2 tsp Ground Cloves; 1/2 tsp Allspice; 1/2 tsp Nutmeg; 4 cups Confectioners’ Sugar; 1 cup Butter; 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract; 2 tbsp Apple Butter; 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon; If too thick, add 1 tablespoon of milk at a time until desired consistency

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Apple butter cupcakes are made with cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, and apple butter topped with an apple butter buttercream frosting.

Ingredients for Apple Butter Cupcakes

Butter
Brown Sugar
Large Eggs
Pure Vanilla Extract
Apple Butter (Homemade is amazing, but I’ve also tried Musselman’s from the store and it is delicious too!)
Water
All-Purpose Flour
Baking Powder
Baking Soda
Salt
Ground Cinnamon
Ground Cloves
Allspice
Nutmeg

Ingredients for Apple Butter Frosting

Confectioners’ Sugar
Butter
Pure Vanilla Extract
Apple Butter
Ground Cinnamon
If too thick, add 1 tablespoon of milk at a time until desired consistency

How to Make Apple Butter Cupcakes

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a regular-sized cupcake pan with 24 cupcake liners.
In a stand mixer or a large bowl with a hand mixer, cream together butter and brown sugar. Add apple butter, vanilla, water, and eggs, blend well.
Add flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and cloves and mix well.
Spoon approximately 3 tablespoons of batter into each cupcake liner.
Bake cupcakes for 17-20 minutes until tops of cupcakes spring back when lightly touched or a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean.

Apple Butter Buttercream Frosting

In a mixer, add butter, apple butter, vanilla, and ground cinnamon. Slowly add in confectioners’ sugar until all 4 cups are added.
If too thick, add 1 tablespoon of milk at a time until reaching desired consistency.

Apple Chips for Decoration

If you’re interested in using apple chips for decoration like in the above photo, I made the apple chips in an air fryer (link to recipe), but they can be oven-baked too.

How to Make Frosting Roses on Cupcakes

Making frosting roses is so simple! It’s basically the reverse of the traditional way to decorate a cupcake with star tips.

Instead of starting from the outside in a circular motion, the frosting is started from the inside in a circle. The frosting tip for roses I used is Wilton’s 2D tip closed star tip. 1M works well too.

Check out Cakes by Lynz’s tutorial on making frosting roses.

Try these other great fall sweets!

Enjoy!