Recipe Details

Apple Butter Cupcakes

Submitted by Clearbrook Farms

• 1 ¾ cups flour
• 1 cup Cleabrook Farms Apple Butter
• 1 ½ tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp. vanilla 1 tsp. baking soda
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 (5 oz.) can (2/3 cup) evaporated milk
• ½ cup margarine or butter
• 1 recipe Penuche Frosting (optional)
• 1 cup sugar
• Cinnamon
• 1 egg

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. In a small mixing bowl stir together flour, baking powder, soda, and salt; set aside.
3. In a medium mixing bowl beat margarine or butter with an electric mixer on medium speed for 30 seconds.
4. Add sugar; beat until fluffy.
5. Add egg; beat well.
6. Beat in apple butter and vanilla.
7. Stir lemon juice into milk (mixture will curdle).
8. Add flour mixture and milk mixture alternately to apple butter mixture, beating on low to medium speed after each addition just until combined.
9. Grease muffin cup or line with paper bake cups; fill two-thirds full.
10. Bake in a 350° F oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the centers comes out clean.
11. Cool on wire racks. If desired, frost with Penuche Frosting. Makes 24 cupcakes.

Penuche Frosting:

• ½ cup margarine or butter
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• ¼ cup milk;
• 3 ½ cups powdered sugar

Directions:

1. In a small saucepan melt ½ cup margarine or butter.
2. Stir in 1 cup packed brown sugar. Cook and stir until bubbly.
3. Remove from the heat. Add ¼ cup milk; stir until smooth.
4. Add 3 ½ cups powdered sugar; beat by hand until spreading consistency.
5. Frost cooled cupcakes immediately. (If frosting thickens, stir in hot water, a few drops at a time, until spreading consistency again.)

*You can substitute Clearbrook Farms Pumpkin, Peach or Pear Butters for the Apple Butter