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Apple Cupcakes

Apple Cupcakes

Made with marzipan apples, these apple cupcakes with cream-cheese frosting, will sell like hotcakes.

Martha Stewart Kids, Fall http://www.marthastewart.com/341937/apple-cupcakes
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  • Yield Makes 2 dozen

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 (http://www.marthastewart.com/260778/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.

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