Easy Apple Blueberry Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Easy Apple Blueberry Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

The sweet apple flavor and the tart Blueberry filling of these apple blueberry cupcakes is what really tastes these cupcakes a long way. A simple light and fluffy brown sugar vanilla batter with cinnamon flavored  apples gives these an almost caramel like sweetness.

If you love Apples and Blueberries then you going to love the flavor combination in these cupcakes. They are so fall and I am so behind posting my fall recipes with you. I made these a while back but have still not shared them with you.

I do use frozen blueberries  because that’s usually what I get my hands on. So I make them pretty much these any time of the year. And of course we are lucky to have apples in abundance all thru the year.

As always – Let’s talk ingredients and substitutes.

• Blueberry – you can of course use fresh blueberries, canned or frozen. I’m using frozen.
  If you do use frozen or canned -please check if sugar has been added and adjust the sweetness in your recipe accordingly.
• Apples – I used the sweet gala apples but any variety works great. The grain smith apples are usuly a bit more tar so the apples you determine the taste of your cupcakes.
• Brown Sugar – I love how apples and brown sugar blend together to create an almost caramel like flavor. But you are free to use white sugar in your recipe. Same quantity.
• Spices – I love adding Cinnamon during the year but pumpkin spice in falls add so much of warmth to these babies.
• Cream Cheese Frosting – I think cream cheese works great with these  but Swiss or Italian Meringue Buttercream are a treat too.

Recipe – Apple Blueberry Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Those of you following me on Instagram must have seen more progress pictures for these on 24 hr My Story

Tools 

• Mixer or
• Bowl and Whisk

Ingredients

For the Cupcake batter 

• 160 grams (1 1/4  cup )- All Purpose Flour
• 175 grams ( 1 3/4 cups)  – Light Brown Sugar
• 170 grams (  3/4  stick) –  unsalted butter at room temperature.
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 cup Buttermilk
• 1 Apple
• 1 tsp Cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/4 tsp baking Soda
• A pinch of salt
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract

Blueberry Filling

• 1 cup  blueberries
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 1/2 tbsp cornstarch
• 1 tsp lemon juice

Classic Cream Cheese Frosting

• 113 grams (1/ 2 cup) Butter
• 8 oz (1 cup ) Cream Cheese
• 375 to 425 grams (3 to 3 1/2 Cups) Powder Sugar or Confectioners Sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla Extract

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 160 C / 320 F.
• Line your muffin pan with cupcake wrappers
• Core, peel and chop apples into small thin almost minced pieces (I like them to almost dissolve in the batter)
• Combine together sour cream and apples.
• Swift together – flour, baking powder, baking soda, Cinnamon & salt.
• Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time.
• Alternate the flour mix and sour cream/apple mix  in to the mixer.
• Once all the ingredients are in. Scrape the sides of the bowl and give it another mix on medium for 30 secs until a smooth batter is achieved.
• Divide batter into the cupcake wrappers about 3/4 full.
• Bake in a preheated oven at 160 C / 320 F for about 18 to 20 mins.
• Cool completely before you decorate

Blueberry Filling 

• In a sauce pan – add blueberries, sugar and lemon juice
• In a separate bowl – add cornstarch to 3 tbsp water or use some of the blueberry juice
• Place blueberry pan on medium heat until all the sugar is dissolved
• add the cornstarch slurry – cook on low until thickened.

Cream Cheese Frosting 

• Cream together the butter and cream cheese
• Add vanilla extract
• Continue to mix adding powder sugar one cup at a time.
• Mix well with each addition so you have a nice light and fluffy whipped cream like consistency.
• Once you have between soft to firm peaks good for piping – you can stop
• Use in a piping bag with a star tip

Decorate the Cupcakes 

• Once the cupcakes are cooled
• Core out the center with an apple corer
• Place a teaspoon of blueberry filing in the center
• Pipe with cream cheese frosting (as shown in the video above)

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You know who in my family loves this combination? Rhea!! She’s a tough one to please so when she loves something – means the world to me…

Love Cupcakes? Me too!

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