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Recipe for Apple Molasses Cupcake by Dawn’s Recipes

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Recipe for Apple Molasses Cupcake by Dawn's Recipes

We’ve outlined all the ingredients and directions for you to make the perfect Apple Molasses Cupcake. This dish qualifies as a Easy level recipe. It should take you about 1 hr 20 min to make this recipe. The Apple Molasses Cupcake recipe should make enough food for 12 cupcakes.

You can add your own personal twist to this Apple Molasses Cupcake recipe, depending on your culture or family tradition. Don’t be scared to add other ingredients once you’ve gotten comfortable with the recipe! Please see below for a list of potential bakeware items that might be necessary for this Apple Molasses Cupcake recipe.

Ingredients for Apple Molasses Cupcake

  • 1 1/4 cups cake flour
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/4 cup raw oats
  • 1 tablespoon cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons oil
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 tablespoon cinnamon
  • 2 apples, diced
  • 1 cup raw oats
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons molasses
  • 2 tablespoons oil
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 3 sticks (1 1/2 cups) unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1 cup confectioners’ sugar, sifted
  • 1/4 cup molasses

Directions for Apple Molasses Cupcake

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a cupcake pan with 12 cupcake liners. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  2. For the cake batter: Sift together the cake flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Mix in the granulated sugar, oats and cinnamon. Add the oil, buttermilk and eggs and mix until smooth and completely combined.
  3. Pour the batter into the cupcake liners and bake until golden brown and risen, 8 to 10 minutes. Let cool completely before frosting.
  4. For the apple compote filling: In a small skillet, bring the granulated sugar, cinnamon, apples and 2 tablespoons water to a simmer over medium heat and cook until the apples are soft, about 10 minutes. Set aside to cool completely.
  5. For the oat crumble: In a small bowl, combine the oats, brown sugar, molasses, oil and cinnamon. Pour the mixture onto the prepared baking sheet and bake, checking every 2 minutes, until golden brown. Set aside to cool, and then crumble into pieces.
  6. For the molasses frosting: In a medium mixing bowl using an electric mixer, cream the butter until smooth and light. Add the confectioners’ sugar 1/4 cup at a time and mix until completely combined. Add the molasses and mix.
  7. To assemble: Remove the center of each cupcake with a paring knife. Fill the center of each with some of the apple compote filling. Frost with the molasses frosting, and sprinkle with the oat crumble. Serve immediately, or store in airtight container for up to 2 days.

Bakeware for your recipe

You will find below are bakeware items that could be needed for this Apple Molasses Cupcake recipe or similar recipes. Feel free to skip to the next item if it doesn’t apply.

  • Cooking pots
  • Frying pan
  • Steamers
  • Colander
  • Skillet
  • Knives
  • Cutting board
  • Grater
  • Saucepan
  • Stockpot
  • Spatula
  • Tongs
  • Measuring cups
  • Wooden Spoon

Categories in this Recipe

  • Apple Dessert
  • Fruit Dessert Recipes
  • Apple Recipes
  • Dessert – Dessert (/dɪˈzɜːrt/) is a course that concludes a meal. The course consists of sweet foods, such as confections, and possibly a beverage such as dessert wine and liqueur. In some parts of the world, such as much of Central Africa and West Africa, and most parts of China, there is no tradition of a dessert course to conclude a meal.The term dessert can apply to many confections, such as biscuits, cakes, cookies, custards, gelatins, ice creams, pastries, pies, puddings, macaroons, sweet soups, tarts and fruit salad. Fruit is also commonly found in dessert courses because of its naturally occurring sweetness. Some cultures sweeten foods that are more commonly savory to create desserts.
  • Fruit – In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering.Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particular have long propagated using the movements of humans and animals in a symbiotic relationship that is the means for seed dispersal for the one group and nutrition for the other; in fact, humans and many animals have become dependent on fruits as a source of food. Consequently, fruits account for a substantial fraction of the world’s agricultural output, and some (such as the apple and the pomegranate) have acquired extensive cultural and symbolic meanings.In common language usage, “fruit” normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures (or produce) of plants that typically are sweet or sour and edible in the raw state, such as apples, bananas, grapes, lemons, oranges, and strawberries. In botanical usage, the term “fruit” also includes many structures that are not commonly called “fruits”, such as nuts, bean pods, corn kernels, tomatoes, and wheat grains.
  • Baking – Baking is a method of preparing food that uses dry heat, typically in an oven, but can also be done in hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most common baked item is bread but many other types of foods are baked. Heat is gradually transferred “from the surface of cakes, cookies, and breads to their center. As heat travels through, it transforms batters and doughs into baked goods and more with a firm dry crust and a softer center”. Baking can be combined with grilling to produce a hybrid barbecue variant by using both methods simultaneously, or one after the other. Baking is related to barbecuing because the concept of the masonry oven is similar to that of a smoke pit.Because of historical social and familial roles, baking has traditionally been performed at home by women for day-to-day meals and by men in bakeries and restaurants for local consumption. When production was industrialized, baking was automated by machines in large factories. The art of baking remains a fundamental skill and is important for nutrition, as baked goods, especially breads, are a common and important food, both from an economic and cultural point of view. A person who prepares baked goods as a profession is called a baker. On a related note, a pastry chef is someone who is trained in the art of making pastries, desserts, bread and other baked goods.
  • Cupcake – A cupcake (also British English: fairy cake; Hiberno-English: bun) is a small cake designed to serve one person, which may be baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup. As with larger cakes, frosting and other cake decorations such as fruit and candy may be applied.
  • Grain Recipes
  • Oats – The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural, unlike other cereals and pseudocereals). While oats are suitable for human consumption as oatmeal and rolled oats, one of the most common uses is as livestock feed.
  • Low Sodium
Chef Dawn
Chef Dawn

Chef Dawn lives and breathes food, always seeking new ingredients to whip up super simple recipes that are big on bold flavor. Being half French, she tends to treat food as a source of pleasure rather than just fuel for our bodies.

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Chef Dawn

Chef Dawn

Chef Dawn lives and breathes food, always seeking new ingredients to whip up super simple recipes that are big on bold flavor. Being half French, she tends to treat food as a source of pleasure rather than just fuel for our bodies Read Full Chef Bio Here .

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