How to Prepare Yummy Apple Cider Cupcakes & Salted Caramel Buttercream

Apple Cider Cupcakes & Salted Caramel Buttercream. Mix together brown sugar, melted butter, and white sugar in a stand mixer until thoroughly combined. Add flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt; mix until combined. Divide batter evenly into the prepared muffin cups.

Line standard muffin/cupcake tinwith paper or foil liners. Bake until toothpick or skewer inserted into center comes out clean. Cream together the butter and cream cheese until smooth. You can cook Apple Cider Cupcakes & Salted Caramel Buttercream using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Apple Cider Cupcakes & Salted Caramel Buttercream

1. It's of cupcakes.
2. Prepare of eggs.
3. Prepare of all purpose flour.
4. It's of apple cider.
5. Prepare of sugar.
6. You need of butter, softened.
7. Prepare of baking powder.
8. It's of cinnamon.
9. It's of salt.
10. It's of vanilla extract.
11. It's of frosting.
12. You need of butter softened.
13. You need of shortening.
14. You need of Kraft caramels, melted with 2 tbsp water.
15. You need of salt.
16. It's of powdered sugar.
17. Prepare of milk for thinning if needed (or 2 tbsp).

Add the apple cider and vanilla, mixing on high until super smooth and creamy. Spread or pipe frosting on cupcakes however you like and sprinkle with cinnamon and nutmeg. These apple cider cupcakes are adapted from this cake but perfected to pack in as much of that cider flavor as possible. The cupcake batter is lightly spiced with cinnamon, infused with apple cider, and also had finely grated apples.

Apple Cider Cupcakes & Salted Caramel Buttercream instructions

1. For cupcakes: Whisk together all ingredients..
2. Fill cupcake liners 2/3 full and bake at 350º for 19 minutes..
3. For buttercream: In a stand mixer, cream together the butter and shortening..
4. Add the powdered sugar and the caramel alternately (add the salt in with the caramel), mixing after each addition..
5. Add milk, by the tbsp. as needed for thinning.
6. *The caramel is a little tricky just in that it needs to be the right temperature-- warm enough that it's still liquid and can blend into the buttercream, but not so hot that it melts the butter making everything too thin. Evaluate the buttercream at about 4 tbsp of caramel-- if it's getting way too thin, stop adding caramel or add more powdered sugar. I found that 6 Tbsp. was perfect for my batch..

This bakes up into a moist apple cupcake with a nice texture and amazing spiced level. These apple cider cupcakes are sweet, light and fluffy - great for a Halloween or Thanksgiving celebration. They're so perfect for fall, you'll love the homemade whipped apple cider frosting! These apple cider cupcakes are sweet from the apple cider and brown sugar and spiced from the cinnamon and a pinch of nutmeg. When you take a bite into these apple cider cupcakes you will be instantly transported to the middle of fall!