The Apple Pie cupcake features a brown sugar cupcake base that is enhanced with Fall spices, apple pie filling, and a delicate whipped mascarpone frosting!
The recipe works not only with mascarpone but with full fat cream cheese eg. Philadephia, too. In that way you can turn this recipe into wonderful Apple pie cupcakes with cream cheese frosting!
For the cupcake use room temperature ingredients, to encourage proper emulsification in the cupcake batter
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Fill each cup of your muffin tin ¾ full of batter. Then bake the cupcakes at 175C / 347F (no fan) for 25 minutes. Let them cool completely on a cooling rack, before addig filling and frosting.
For the super easy apple filling mix all ingredients and cook over medium heat for about 5 minutes until the apple pieces are slightly cooked and some water evaporates from the mixture.
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Fill the cupcakes with the room temperature apple filling.
The frosting is also super simple, it consists of full-fat mascarpone, heavy cream (36% fat), and a small amount of icing sugar / powdered sugar whipped until it is a pipeable fluffy consistency.
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The ultimate, easy, from-scratch cupcakes with apples to try for Thanksgiving or any time over the Fall!