A cupcake is a delicious and energetically valuable pastry, so a good cupcake can perfectly complement breakfast and maintain strength throughout the day if there is no way to fully eat.
But for the same reason, cake is not the most suitable food for those who want to lose weight.
But you can do it once a week, right?
Cupcake with apples - general principles
Fat (vegetable or butter) is necessarily included in the dough for the cake, if it is a sweet cake (because there are also unsweetened, cheese, for example) - there is a sufficient amount of sugar, usually also eggs. To make the dough rise better, use a baking powder and soda, which should be extinguished with lemon juice or vinegar.
You can bake a large cupcake with apples, or you can prefer small, portioned ones. Then the dish will cook faster. There are various express microwave recipes.
Baking apples are best chosen with dense pulp, such as Granny, Bogatyr or Semerenko. They will not disperse too quickly. When preparing muffins with apples, the peel from the fruit must be peeled off, and the flesh should be grated or finely chopped, depending on the recipe.
The flour must be sieved during cooking. In wheat flour, you can add semolina, a little (up to one fifth of the volume) of rye or oat flour, which will significantly enrich a cupcake with apples with valuable nutrients. Buckwheat flour is also very useful, but has a pronounced taste, which will be noticeable. If this does not bother you, replace a small portion of buckwheat wheat flour.
The dough for the cake with apples is quite liquid, it is poured into molds. Previously, the forms should be lightly greased with oil and sprinkled with something: crackers, semolina. If the finished cupcake does not want to get out of the mold, turn it over and place a towel soaked in cold water on the bottom.
To avoid problems, lubricate the form thoroughly, generously sprinkle it with semolina. Better yet, use silicone or just paper molds to make a cupcake with apples.
Recipe 1. Cupcakes with apples and cranberries
This cake with apples is best prepared in large form, then cranberries will be visible on the cut, which will give the product an aesthetic appearance.
Ingredients
Semolina - 250 g
Flour - 350 g
Sugar - 300 g
Eggs - 3 pieces
Kefir (can be replaced with drinking yogurt with berry or apple flavor) - 450 ml (small bottle)
Butter - 100 g
Baking powder - 3 small spoons
Apples - 3 fairly large
Frozen cranberries - approximately 150 g
Cooking method
Pour semolina mixed with granulated sugar with kefir (or yogurt) and mix thoroughly. Leave to swell for at least an hour.
Meanwhile, the washed and peeled apples should be grated coarsely enough, thaw cranberries, rinsing them beforehand, and melt the butter.
Put melted butter in the swollen semolina and begin to beat the mixture with a mixer. One by one to beat in the eggs, without ceasing to beat, and then little by little also the flour mixed with the baking powder. When the dough becomes uniform and lush, carefully mix grated apples and cranberries into it.
Put the resulting dough in a suitable form, coated with oil and sprinkled with semolina so as to fill it in two-thirds of the volume, and put in the oven, which must be preheated to 180 degrees. Bake a cupcake for approximately 40 minutes, checking readiness with a speck.
Recipe 2. "Quick" muffin with apples in the microwave
This apple muffin will be an excellent breakfast for children, as it is tasty, satisfying and can be cooked in literally 15 minutes. From the specified number of products, four cupcakes of medium size will be obtained. However, it depends on the volume of molds. The main thing is that they should be filled only until the middle, since during the preparation process the dough will increase in volume.
Ingredients
Flour - 8 tablespoons
Vegetable oil - 100 ml and another tablespoon
Starch - 1 tablespoon
Eggs - 2 pieces
Apple - one large or 2 medium
Milk - 100 ml
Sugar - 6 tablespoons
Vanilla Sugar - A Pair of Tablespoons
Soda quenched with lemon juice - half a teaspoon
Cooking method
Wash, peel and cut the apples selected for the cupcake into medium-sized slices. Roll them in starch. Heat a spoonful of oil in a frying pan and put apple slices. On high heat, quickly fry the slices, then immediately put in the molds.
Mix sugar, egg, butter, vanilla sugar and milk with a whisk or mixer. Mix in a little flour, and then soda, slaked with lemon juice.
Put the dough on top of the apples so that the molds are half full.
Muffins must be baked in the microwave at a power of 600 watts, usually it takes three to three and a half minutes, sometimes a little more.
Recipe 3. Cupcake with apples, cottage cheese and lemon zest
An unusually healthy and fragrant cupcake with apples and zest will help feed the little whim with useful cottage cheese.
Ingredients
Apples - 2 pieces
Cottage cheese - 200 g (it is better to take not liquid, but rather crumbly cottage cheese and wipe it first through a colander or sieve)
Sugar - 300 g
Flour - about 3 cups
Water or milk - half a glass
Three eggs
Butter (melt) - 150 g
Vanilla Sugar - A Pair of Teaspoons
Baking powder - 10 g
Lemon zest with half citrus
Cooking method
Mix sugar with melted butter, add vanilla sugar and mix everything in the cottage cheese, then mix milk; then drive one egg there. After each, you must carefully mix the dough. Remove the zest, chop and mix in the dough. Mix flour and baking powder and add a little to the dough.
Make sure that the dough does not get too thick.
Wash, peel and finely chop the apples. Stir in apple muffin dough.
Put in molds and bake for about 40 minutes in the oven at 180 - 190 degrees.
Recipe 4. Diet Muffin with Apples
Ingredients
Oat flakes (if desired, you can take not oatmeal, but multi-grain) - 1.5 cups
Rye flour - 100 g
Apples - 3 pieces
Kefir - one and a half glasses
Liquid Honey - Full 3 Tbsp
Eggs - 2 pieces
Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons
Cinnamon - half a spoon (teaspoon)
Baking powder - 1 teaspoon
Cooking method
Pour yogurt with kefir and leave to infuse for two or three hours.
Drive eggs into the mixture, add honey and mix well.
Wash, peel and cut the apples into small cubes. Knead in the dough. Mix the baking powder with flour and cinnamon and, gradually pouring the mixture, knead the dough.
Arrange the dough in tins and bake for about half an hour in an oven heated to 200 degrees.
Recipe 5. Cake with apples and nuts
Ingredients
Flour - 200g
Apples - a pair of medium-sized pieces
Eggs - 2 pieces
Sugar - 200 g (part of it is better to take vanilla)
Walnuts (peeled) - 100 g
Butter - 150 g
Ground spices (cinnamon, ginger, etc.) - a couple of teaspoons
Baking powder - half a teaspoon
Salt, soda - a pinch
Cooking method
Mix flour with spices, baking powder, salt and soda. After washing and peeling the apples, grate coarsely. Calcify the nuts in the oven or microwave and peel. Chop them with a knife or roll with a rolling pin.
Separately, beat with a mixer the eggs with sugar and butter. Gradually introduce flour and knead thoroughly and carefully.
Pour apples and nuts into the dough and mix with a spatula, trying to do it carefully.
Grease the mold you intend to use. Place the prepared dough there and send to the oven, which has already been heated to 180 degrees.
A cupcake is baked for about an hour, readiness must be checked with a bite.
This cupcake often sticks to the walls, so it is better to prepare it in paper or silicone form.
Recipe 6. Lean Cupcake with Apple and Carrots
Such a cupcake with apples can be prepared during fasting or if you do not eat animal products.
Ingredients
Carrots - 100 g
Apple - One Big
Vegetable oil - half a cup
Water or juice - 1 cup
Sugar - a full glass
Wheat or mixed flour - 150 g
Shredded walnuts - half a cup
Baking powder - half a teaspoon
Cooking method
Peel and grate carrots and apples very finely, and coarsely the apple.
Calcify the nuts, peel off the film and chop or roll with a rolling pin.
Mix flour with sugar and baking powder, gradually adding oil first, and then water, knead the dough of medium density. Add carrots, apple and nuts. Mix everything thoroughly and leave to infuse, while waiting for the oven to heat up to a temperature of 180 degrees.
Place the dough in a mold or small molds, considering that it will rise during the baking process.
Bake for about an hour, checking readiness with a torch.
Recipe 7. Apple and Cocoa Cupcake
Ingredients
Apples - 2 pieces
Eggs - 4 pieces
Semolina - half a cup
Gingerbread cookies - 100 g
Honey - 150 g
Cocoa - 2 tablespoons
Cinnamon - half a teaspoon
To sprinkle the finished cake - icing sugar
Cooking method
Grind gingerbread cookies in a blender or with a meat grinder. Peel and grate the apples finely. Mix with gingerbread crumbs, add cinnamon and let stand for at least half an hour.
Meanwhile, separate the squirrels from the yolks. Beat the last with a mixer with cocoa and honey. Stir in the same grated apple with gingerbread and soda. Beat the whites separately in a thick foam and carefully mix with a spatula.
Lubricate the selected form with butter and lightly sprinkle with semolina or breadcrumbs. Put the dough there and bake for about 50 minutes in the oven, heated to 180 degrees.
After the cake is baked, you need to let it stand, and then remove it and sprinkle with powdered sugar on top.
Recipe 8. Cupcake with apples and almond petals
Ingredients
Flour - 250 g
Margarine or butter - 150 g
Eggs - 2 pieces
Apples - 4 pieces
Sugar - 150 g + 2 tablespoons brown
Cinnamon, Ginger, etc. - 1 teaspoon
Baking powder - 1 teaspoon
Almond petals
Cooking method
First you need to soften the oil in the microwave and then beat it with a sugar mixer. Alternately add eggs, mixing thoroughly.
Mix flour with spices and baking powder and carefully introduce into the oil mixture.
Peel the peel from the apples, then cut them, for example, into small cubes.
Oil well the mold and place half of the dough in it. Then put 2/3 of the apples, now the remaining dough and the remaining apples. Sprinkle the top with brown sugar and almond petals.
Bake in the oven for about 45 minutes. Set the temperature, as usual, 180 degrees.
It is better to cool the cake in shape and only then get it out.
Apple Cupcake - Tips and Tricks
To make the cupcakes tasty and airy, take the freshest eggs for them. They beat better.
Honey for baking is better to take light, such as floral or lime. It should be liquid enough. You can improve the consistency of honey if you melt it by placing it in a water bath.
In a cupcake with apples, you can add raisins, as well as dried cranberries, cherries, candied fruits. Before adding to the dough, raisins must be sprinkled with flour. To do this, pour a spoonful of flour into a bowl with raisins and shake the bowl until the raisins are covered with an even layer of flour. This is done to better "stick" raisins into the dough.
It is convenient to use a mixer to prepare the dough. However, not if you need to mix whipped proteins or beaten egg mixture in a mixture with flour. In this case, in order not to damage the structure of the dough, you need to use a spatula, which gently mix the dough from the bottom up.
It is impossible to accurately indicate the amount of flour: it can be very different. Therefore, follow the consistency of the test. It should resemble a good thick sour cream.
It is also impossible to accurately determine the baking time of the cake in the oven. Do not rely on recommendations from the recipe (they are indicative only) and on the appearance of baking. The readiness of the cake with apples is determined using a torch - a long thin stick, the manufacture of which is worth entrusting to the owner of the house. If the owner is not there, you can buy wooden skewers for kebabs in the store, they are suitable for this purpose.
Luchin should be stuck in a cupcake to the bottom of the mold, slightly rotated and removed. The stick stuck in the finished cupcake will remain dry. If it is wet or with sticky dough, continue baking.
