Have I said before how much I like cake? Oh…I have ?
I try to use up as much fruit as possible from the garden so I made a traditional fairy cake, or cupcake, with the addition of chopped apple thus a very yummy and moist Apple Cupcake!!
Apple Cupcakes
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Cook time:
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Serves: 12
Ingredients
- 125g softened unsalted butter
- 125g caster sugar
- 125g self raising flour
- 2 eggs
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2-3 tablespoons milk
- Approximately 2 dessert apples chopped
- Optional: Fondant icing to decorate and a drop of green food colouring
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200ºC/gas mark 6
- Put all the ingredients except for the milk into a food processor and blitz until smooth. Add the milk down the funnel whilst pulsing to make a soft dropping consistency.
- Easy Peasy!!
- If doing in the traditional way, cream the butter and sugar, add the vanilla and then the eggs one at a time adding a spoonful of flour each time. Fold in the remainder of the flour, then add the milk.
- Put a generous teaspoon of the mixture into the bottom of a muffin case.
- Put a teaspoon of the apple onto the cake mixture
- Add another dollop of mixture on top of the apple.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes until cooked and golden.
- Cool for 5 minutes and then remove the cakes from the tin and leave to cool completely.
- Prepare your fondant icing, if using, and use to decorate your cakes.
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These look so yummy, can you come and cook cakes for me please? xx
I love cakes. 😀
Nova these are gorgeous, and your photos are perfect!
Thank you Cara……I still couldn’t get it exactly how I wanted but it was ok. Thanks for your help. x
Very pretty and look delicious too. Great photos of them too, yummy!
Thanks very much….we like cake here. 😉
They look scrummy!! I love the way the icing is level with the top of the case too!
As an aside… I *knew* I’d seen those pop-up social buttons somewhere – it was here!! I’ve been looking for the code for those all week – tweeted about it, asked on forums, refused to speak to Derren Brown when I saw his.
I’ve done it on mine now (googled for help) and I love them 😀
I’m a bit obsessive with the icing being level ……I even cut the tops off the cake if they are in peaks 😉
my oh my! they look delicious!
Thanks very much…think I ate most of them…oops. 😉
Scrummy! Nothing else to say x
Thanks very much. 😀
They look yummy! I need cake now 🙂 x
Thank you Liz……now I’m regretting them going so quickly because I could eat one right now! 😉
I’m not a big fan of sweet treats, but these look very tempting ;))) @Kahanka
Thank you…..wish I didn’t like cakes but I love home made fairy cakes. 😀
Delicious pictures…yummy cakes
Thanks very much 😀
Those are so beautiful, mine always look like I’ve applied the icing with a cement tool!
Awww, I’m sure they don’t. I love icing……hence I always put a thick layer of it on. 😀
Oh my word, they look divine. I can bake but mine never look pretty.
Thanks very much Kate. 🙂
Oh they look amazing – I think I prefer this sort of icing to lots of buttercream!
Me too…..you can always make buttercream look prettier but I find it too sickly. 😀
Those are some gorgeous looking cakes. x
Awww, thanks Susan…..I dread to think how many fairy cakes I’ve made in the last sixteen years! 😉
Oooh now I’m really getting hungry, they look delicious!
Thanks Dawn. 😀
Seems a shame to scoff something so lovingly prepared! Nice shots.
Thanks very much…..you don’t want to know how many photos I took until I got one that I was happy with! 😉
Oooh yummy. These look simply too delicious. I am getting a lot of food envy this week! (and tree envy and appliance envy… sigh)
Maggy
haha….I know that feeling too. 🙂
I could do with one of those right now! Great photo!
Thanks very much, and thank you for the retweet. 😀
Oh my gosh! First, the photo! Way to go! It is beautiful!
Then the actual food….looks so yummy.
You are too good!
Hehe….thanks very much Patty. I took a lot of photos to make them look pretty. 😉
Ooooooo yum! They look delicious!!
Thank you Emma, I must admit they did taste good……I think I ate the majority of them. Oops. 😀
Oh they look yummy and very pretty! 🙂
Thank you very much….we enjoyed them, me especially! 😉
Your cakes always look so yummy! Makes me hungry when I check out your gallery posts! I like using apples in my cakes makes them lovely and moist :0
Oh thank you Jenny……i’ve never thought of doing that before, I’ll have to try grating some apple in future. Thanks. 😀