Apple Butter Cupcakes

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

Want more fall desserts? Check out these 36 fun fall cupcakes!

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, and 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 the 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!

• Banana Nut Bread
• Boozy Apple Slushies
• Caramel Crispix
• Caramel Cupcakes with Caramel Filling
• Iced Pumpkin Bread
• Pecan Tassies
• Pumpkin Bars
• Pumpkin Cupcakes

Enjoy!

Apple Butter Cupcakes

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

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Course: Desserts

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 18 minutes

Total Time: 38 minutes

Servings: 24 Cupcakes

Author: Tiffany

Ingredients

Apple Butter Cupcakes

• ½ cup Butter
• 1 ½ cup Brown Sugar
• 2 Large Eggs
• 1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
• 1 ½ cup Apple Butter, Homemade is amazing, but I’ve also tried Musselman’s from the store and it is delicious too!
• ½ cup Water
• 1 ½ cup All-Purpose Flour
• 2 ½ teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon Ground Cloves
• ½ teaspoon Allspice
• ½ teaspoon Nutmeg

Apple Butter Buttercream Frosting

• 4 cups Confectioners’ Sugar
• 1 cup Butter
• 1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
• 2 tablespoon Apple Butter
• 1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
• If too thick add 1 tablespoon of milk at a time until desired consistency.

Instructions

 

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.

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Nutrition

Calories: 286 kcalCarbohydrates: 44 gProtein: 2 gFat: 12 gSaturated Fat: 7 gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4 gCholesterol: 46 mgSodium: 305 mgFiber: 1 gSugar: 36 g