Apple cupcakes

Here is a lovely little cupcake that is very moist and tasty without being full of butter like so many tasty cakes seems to be. The muffin is a carrot cake recipe where I just swapped carrots for tiny pieces of Granny Smith apple. Flavoured with cinnamon and topped with lemon frosting they are a true delight. I made mine small but they can of course be made in to normal sized muffins.

15 small

1 egg
60 grams brown sugar
60 plain flour
1/2tsp baking powder
1/4tsp baking soda
50ml vegetable oil
1 apple (I use granny smith)
1tsp ground cinnamon

Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and cinnmon. Beat sugar and egg together, add the dry ingredients through a sieve. Last fold in oil and finely chopped apple. Bake in small muffin cups on 175C for 15min. Large muffins will take around 20min.
Let cool down while making the frosting.

Frosting
50 grams soft butter
125 grams icing sugar
zest and juice of half a lemon

Mix all ingredients until smooth and well blended. Spread on top of the cold muffin and chill a little before serving with a small piece of apple on top.