Coming back from Toccoa this week, we stopped at Jaemor farms to pick up a peck of apples. We also got a jar of blackberry honey and an apple fritter (both very delicious). In honor of the Cornelia apple festival back in Georgia today, I made apple cupcakes yesterday. I decided to try making a spice cake base and add chopped apples. I mixed the yellow cupcake recipe with the recipe for one of my favorite coffee cakes. They turned out beautifully - the perfect recipe for the beginning of fall. To top the delicious flavor off, I made a honey cinnamon cream cheese frosting. It was a delightful and successful day of baking.
Although this is a cupcake blog, I have to say a word about the dinner since it went so perfectly with the cupcakes. Ben and I made a pork tenderloin we saw Alton Brown make on Good Eats - delicious. I also finally managed to make great potatoes with help from a few spices and Ben's idea to cook them in a bit of chicken broth. Both the dinner and the apple-spice cupcakes were a great start to October and fall (even if the Florida weather still feels like summer).
Sooo....are you going to share the recipe for those apple cinnamon cupcakes?!
ReplyDeleteI just added chopped apples, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and cloves to a yellow cake recipe. I also replaced some of the sugar the recipe called for with brown sugar. But that's it - really simple :)
ReplyDeleteWow, sounds simple and delicious. :)
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