Beautiful light apple cupcake with a hidden caramel centre topped with caramel buttercream icing – delicious!

I have used my apple crumble cake recipe for these cupcakes, it does make rather a lot, so if you don’t need 20 cupcakes you can very easily halve the recipe.

I have made my own caramel, but caramel in a jar works just as well just without all the faffing.

You will need:

• 350g Self Raising Flour
• 1tsp of Bicarbonate of Soda
• 140g Butter
• 170g Soft Dark Brown Sugar
• 1tsp ground Cinnamon
• 350g Grated Apples (already peeled and cored)
• 2 Eggs
• 100ml Milk

Caramel:

For the cake filling and butter cream icing.

• 200g  or ½ can of Condensed Milk
• 1 tbsp Golden Syrup
• 30g Butter

Butter Cream Icing:

• 240g Icing Sugar
• 120g Butter
• 80g Caramel (from above)

Method:

• Pre heat the oven to 180degrees C and prepare your bun tray by lining with cupcake cases.
• Rub the flour and Bicarbonate of soda with the butter until you get a mixture that resembles bread crumbs.
• Add the sugar and cinnamon and mix together well.
• Gently stir in the grated apples until well distributed.
• Fold in the eggs and then the milk.
• Divide evenly between about 20 cup cake cases
• Bake for 15-20 mins until risen and golden.
• Remove from the bun tray leave them to cool completely.
• While the cakes are cooling make the caramel and butter cream icing.

Caramel:

• Heat the condensed milk, golden syrup and butter together in a heavy based pan.
• Bring to the boil while stirring constantly.
• Then simmer for about 5 minutes or until the caramel has thickened and is slightly darker in colour.
• Remove from the heat and leave to cool slightly to make it easier to handle.

Butter Cream Icing:

• Cream together all the ingredients for the butter cream icing until smooth.

Assembly:

• Using a cake corer or even an apple corer take the centre out of each cake. But DON’T core all the way to the bottom.
• Put the cake cores to one side for plugging later.
• Fill the cores with your caramel and plug the top with the reserved cores. (you may not need the full core just the top bit).
• Ice each cake. I piped mine but this will take more icing.

Sit back and enjoy your cakes.