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How to Make The Best Apple Pie Cupcakes

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The apple pies you’ve been craving, but don’t have the time or patience for. Want to know How To Make The Best Apple Pie Cupcakes? Have you ever wanted to make a pie that tastes like an apple, but doesn’t have the time or want to make a whole pie? These are perfect for beginners bakers since they’re so easy and can be enjoyed all year round!

Apple Pie Cupcakes with two more behind them in a basket with more apples.

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Best Apple Pie Cupcakes

These Apple Cinnamon Cupcakes are so delicious especially if you enjoy regular apple pie. These cupcakes are basically mini apple pies and perfect to serve friends and family a quick and easy dessert. This recipe has a wonderful list of ingredients that adds so much flavor to such a small dessert. Using apples in a dessert is so good because of the taste and texture it adds. This Apple Cupcake Recipe is something you will want to save and share with your loved ones. Cinnamon Baked Apples Recipe and Crunch Top Apple Pie Recipe are other great apple recipes that I recommend giving a try, you can make these recipes separately or enjoy them all together as an apple ingredient buffet.

Ingredients

  • Cake Mix- You will need spice cake mix for this recipe.
  • Eggs- Your eggs should be used at room temperature.
  • Butter- Use unsalted butter to control the amount of salt in the recipe.
  • Milk- You will need whole milk for this recipe.
  • Powdered Sugar- This will be added to your batter.
  • Vanilla- Use pure vanilla extract for the best flavoring.
  • Ground Cinnamon- Cinnamon goes great in any apple recipe.
  • Heavy Cream- This will help with the consistency of the recipe.
  • Pie Crust- You can buy a premade crust or make your own homemade.
  • Sugar- Every great dessert recipe uses sugar in the ingredients.
  • Caramel- You will need a bottle of salted caramel.
  • Graham Crackers- You will need to have these crushed into crumbs.
  • Apples- You will need peeled and chopped Gala apples.
  • Water- This will be added to ingredients to prepare.
  • Cornstarch- This will thicken the consistency of the apple filling.

How to Make Apple Pie Cupcakes

Cupcake Directions:

Set the oven to 350 degrees.

Add the cake mix, eggs, milk, and butter into a standing mixer and mix to combine.

Add the batter into cupcake liners, filling them up about 3/4 of the way full.

Place the batter into the oven for 21 minutes to bake.

Begin making the apple filling while the cupcakes are baking.

Apple Pie Filling Directions:

Add the butter into a medium pot and mix in the apples, sugar, and cinnamon.

Pour in 1 cup of water and allow the ingredients to cook until it reaches a low simmer.

Add the rest of the water into a small bowl and whisk in some cornstarch until smooth.

Combine the butter and cornstarch mixture and allow the ingredients to cook for another 1-2 minutes until it is thickened.

Allow the ingredients to cool completely.

Frosting Directions:

Add all the frosting ingredients into a standing mixer and combine on medium speed.

Fully combine until it forms stiff peaks in the frosting and then, add into a piping bag.

Cinnamon Sugar Pie crust

Set the oven to 350 degrees.

Add the cinnamon and sugar together and mix to combine.

Begin to unroll your premade crust and put it onto a cookie sheet.

Add the cinnamon-sugar mixture over top of the pie crust and sprinkle all around.

Put into the oven to bake for about 10-15 minutes or until the crust becomes a light brown.

Let the crust cool down to room temperature.

When cooled, cut the crust into triangle shapes.

Decorating Directions:

Remove the cupcakes from the pan and begin decorating.

A finished and bare cupcake in a cupcake liner.

Pipe the frosting onto the finished cupcakes. (Keep the frosting tip flat so the apple filling can sit neatly on the frosting.)

Piping the frosting on baked cupcake.

Add about 1 tablespoon of the filling onto the cupcakes.

The filling on top of the piped frosting.

Next, add a bit of the salted caramel over top.

Then, add a piece of the pie crust to the back of the cupcake.

Add some graham cracker crumbs on top of the cupcakes.

A downward view of one of the apple pie cupcakes.

Serve and Enjoy!

One of the Apple Pie Cupcakes with another behind it.

What Kind of Apples Are Best for Baking?

The best apples for baking are ‘Baking Apples’. You want to use specifically baking apples so that they cook correctly. The best apples to use are Jonagold, Ida Red, Crispin, or Granny Smith Apples.

Do Apple Cupcakes Need to Be Refrigerated?

This specific apple cinnamon cupcake recipe does not need to be placed in the fridge. The cupcakes do not have any ingredients that will perish in a short period of time. If you were to use something like cream cheese for the filling, then it would need to go in the fridge.

One of the Apple Pie Cupcakes on a white and square serving plate.

What Kind of Frosting is used for Apple Pie Cupcakes?

The frosting you want to use for this recipe is listed in the ingredients. This frosting is the best one to use because it fits well with this cupcake flavor. The cupcake frosting is very simple to make with ingredients like vanilla, cinnamon, powdered sugar, and butter.

Can I Use Store Bought Frosting?

You can use store-bought frosting. However, I always recommend trying out the recipe before making any changes. And, considering how simple and easy it is to make this frosting and how well it fits, this would probably be the better choice for this recipe.

Can I make these cupcakes in advance?

You can make your cupcakes in advance. Certain parts of the recipe will need to be made right when you’re about to eat them for the best results. However, other steps like the baking of the cupcakes and filling cook are made ahead of time and placed in the fridge.

Apple Pie Cupcakes with a basket of apples behind them.

Can these cupcakes be frozen?

These cupcakes could be frozen if you have the correct container to put them in so they don’t get crushed. However, your best bet is to leave at room temperature to eat immediately or place in the fridge to last even longer.

A close up of one of the Apple Pie Cupcakes.

More Apple Desserts:

  • How to Make Caramel Apple Fluff
  • Quick and Easy Sweet and Crunchy Twix Apple Salad
  • Easy Apple Butternut Squash Casserole
  • Poison Apple Cider Recipe (Spiced Homemade Apple Cider
Apple Pie Cupcake with some caramel candies all around them.
Apple Pie Cupcake

Best Apple Pie Cupcakes

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Apple pie cupcakes are the best! It tastes like an apple, but you don't have to make a whole pie. They're perfect for beginners bakers since they're so easy and can be enjoyed all year round! This is THE BEST apple pie cupcake recipe. You'll never find anything better than this one.
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 35 mins
Total Time 45 mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 22 cupcakes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 box of spice cake mix
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1/2 C unsalted butter softened
  • 1 C whole milk

Cinnamon Frosting ingredients:

  • 1 C unsalted butter softened
  • 2 1/2 C powder sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
  • 3-5 TBSP heavy whipping cream
  • 1 large piping bag fitted with a star tip

Cinnamon Sugar Pie crust Ingredients

  • 1 premade pie crust unrolled
  • 1/4 C unsalted sweet cream butter melted
  • 1/2 C sugar
  • 3 tbsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 cookie sheet fitted with parchment paper

Decoration ingredients:

  • 1 squeeze bottle of salted caramel
  • 1/4 C graham cracker crumbs

Directions
 

Cupcake Directions:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  • Using a standing mixer, combine the cake mix, eggs, milk, and butter, and mix until combined
  • Scoop cupcake batter into the liners, filling 3/4 way full
  • Bake in the oven for 21 minutes.
  • While the cupcakes are baking, make the apple pie filling

Apple Pie topping ingredients:

  • 2 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 6 cups peeled and chopped gala apples
  • 1/2 C sugar
  • 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 1/2 C water
  • 2 tsp cornstarch

Directions:

  • Using a medium pot, melt the butter
  • Stir in the apples, sugar, and cinnamon.
  • Mix in 1 C of water until combined and bring to a low simmer
  • In a small bowl, combine the remaining 1/2 C of water with the cornstarch, and whisk lightly until smooth.
  • Add the cornstarch mixture to the apples and cook 1-2 minutes more, until the mixture has thickened.
  • Let cool completely

Frosting Directions:

  • Using a stand mixer, combine all ingredients and mix on medium speed.
  • Mix until you see stiffed peaks in your frosting and scoop into a piping bag

Cinnamon Sugar Pie crust

  • Preheat oven to 350
  • Mix the cinnamon and sugar together
  • Unroll the pie crust and place it onto the cookie sheet
  • Brush the melted butter onto the top of the pie crust
  • Sprinkle the cinnamon-sugar mixture onto the pie crust
  • Place into the oven for about 10-15 minutes or until lightly golden brown
  • Allow cooling to room temperature
  • Cut pie crust into triangles

Decorating Directions:

  • Using the frosting, pipe the frosting onto the cupcakes, making sure to keep the tip of the frosting flat so that the apple pie filling can sit on the frosting
  • Scoop about 1tbsp of the apple pie filling onto the top of the cupcakes
  • Drizzle the salted caramel onto the top of the cupcakes
  • Place a Pie crust into the back of the cupcake
  • Sprinkle some graham cracker crumbs onto the top of the cupcakes
  • Enjoy!
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