Descendants Apple Cupcakes
Apple flavored cupcakes made to look like the sparkling Disney's Descendants' logo!
Makes 12 cupcakes
Things you'll need
Ingredients- 1 apple, shredded
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 ½ cups all purpose flour
- ¾ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup buttermilk
- Swiss buttercream
- Red sanding sugar
- Chocolate cigarettes
- Green fondant
- Grater for apples
- Small wood cutting board
- Small cutting knife
- Peeler
- Medium mixing bowl
- Whisk
- Rubber spatula
- Large pyrex measuring cup
- Yellow scoop
- Muffin tin
- 12 brown liners
- Piping bag fitted with 1A tip
- Wax paper
- Tape
- Small fondant roller
- Leaf cutter
- Fondant shaping tool
Let's get started!
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and line a muffin tin with brown paper liners.
- Toss the shredded apples with lemon juice to keep them from browning.
- Whisk the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda and salt together in a medium bowl and set aside.
- Melt the butter in the microwave and whisk in the sugar, eggs, vanilla and buttermilk.
- Mix the wet ingredients with the dry and fold in the shredded apples.
- Scoop the batter into the liners and bake 18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Cool for 10 minutes in pan and then remove to a rack to cool to room temperature.
- Pipe buttercream into a dome on the center of each cupcake and then roll it in red sanding sugar.
- Place a piece of chocolate cigarette into the center of each apple to create the steam.
- Roll out a small amount of green fondant and cut out leaves and use a small fondant tool to create lines in the leaves if desired. Place a leave into the center of each cupcake.
