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    Made with marzipan apples, these apple cupcakes with cream-cheese frosting, will sell like hotcakes.
    Martha Stewart Kids, Fall
    • Yield Makes 2 dozen
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    Ingredients

    • 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
    • 2 teaspoons baking soda
    • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
    • 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
    • 2 cups sugar
    • 2 large eggs
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 4 cups coarsely shredded apples, such as Macintosh (about 1 3/4 pounds)
    • Cream-Cheese Frosting
    • Marzipan Apples (below)

    Directions

    1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two standard muffin tins with paper liners; set aside. Whisk together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt in a medium bowl; set aside. Cream butter and sugar on medium-high speed in the bowl of a mixer fitted with the paddle until pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Mix in eggs and vanilla.
    2. Reduce speed to low; mix in apples. Add flour mixture; mix, scraping down sides of bowl as needed, until just combined.
    3. Fill lined cups halfway with batter; bake until tops are springy to the touch, 18 to 20 minutes. Remove from tins; let cool on a wire rack. When completely cool, frost cupcakes; top with marzipan apples.
    4. For marzipan apples: Tint some marzipan red and some green (find it in the baking section of your grocery store). Roll red marzipan into balls on a cornstarch-dusted surface. Score bottoms with toothpick. For leaves, flatten teardrop-shaped green marzipan; add veins with toothpick. Roll worms from un-tinted marzipan; add green nonpareils for eyes. Use brown sprinkles for stems. Make holes for worm and stem, and insert.

    Recipe Reviews

    • scenicworld
      6 Mar, 2012

      these are great! very apple-y and the cream cheese frosting goes perfectly!!

    • Cupcake_Love
      13 Jun, 2011

      This recipe was PERFECT! Follow every step and you will have everyone fallimg for these cupcake!

    • k_alexandra
      25 Jun, 2009

      These are delicious!

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