Apple Spice Cupcakes (Cake Mix)
Servings: 30 cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 box Spice Cake Mix 15.25g We used Duncan Hines Perfectly Moist
- ½ cup white sugar (100g)
- ½ cup all purpose flour (60g)
- ½ cup Melted Butter *this is one stick (113g)
- 3 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (8g)
- 1 cup Sour Cream
- 1 cup milk (we like two percent or whole milk)
- 2 cups of diced apples we used Granny Smith (you could use others like Honey Crisp, Golden Delicious, etc.)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F & line cupcake pans with cupcake liners.
- Add the dry ingredients to a mixing bowl (flour, sugar, cake mix) and whisk to blend.
- Next add the eggs, sour cream, melted butter, milk, and vanilla (everything but the apples)
- Mix on low speed for 10 seconds to begin incorporating the ingredients and then bump up the speed to medium, mixing for 2 minutes.
- Gently stir in the diced apples.
- Fill the lined cupcake pans with batter- about ¼ cup of batter per cupcake.
- Bake at 325F for 16-18 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean or with just a few moist crumbs attached.
- This recipe makes approximately 28-30 cupcakes.
Notes
These cupcakes can be baked in advance, wrapped, and frozen. What we like to do is line them up in rows on a sheet cake cardboard (or whatever you have to work with)- lay a sheet of plastic wrap across the top, then tightly wrap with another sheet or two of foil.
Freeze for up to three months! To thaw, move to the kitchen counter, still wrapped. Remove the wrapping after about 10-15 minutes and decorate as usual.