Apple Crisp Cupcakes

Makes 12 cupcakes

Ingredients

Cupcakes

  • 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
  • ¾ cup + 2 tbsp sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • ¾ cup all-purpose flour
  • ¾ cup cake flour
  • 1½ tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1½ tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • ½ cup + 2 tbsp milk

Topping

  • ½ cup all-purpose flour
  • ¾ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup rolled oats
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • ¾ tsp nutmeg
  • ⅓ cup unsalted butter, room temperature

Filling

  • ½ cup dark brown sugar
  • ¼ cup heavy cream
  • 3 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 2 tbsp light corn syrup
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 tbsp bourbon (optional)
  • 1 apple, peeled & chopped

Whipped Cream (makes 2 cups)

  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 2 tbsp sugar

Special Equipment

  • stand mixer with dough hook
  • 12-cup muffin tin
  • cupcake liners
  • cookie scoop
  • nonstick baking mat (Silpat)

How-to

Make Cupcakes

  1. Preheat oven to 350º
  2. Cream butter and sugar
  3. Add eggs
  4. Sift dries and add to mixture alternating with milk
  5. Bake 20-22 minutes, rotating once halfway through
  6. Cool on wire racks and then freeze for 1 hour before filling

Make Topping

  1. Preheat oven to 350º
  2. Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl
  3. Rub in butter with your fingertips until it is in even pea-sized pieces
  4. Bake on a cookie sheet lined with Silpat or nonstick mat until golden and crisp, rotating once halfway through,15-20 minutes, 
  5. Store in an air-tight container until ready to use

Make Filling

  1. Bring sugar, cream, butter, corn syrup and salt to a boil and reduce until sauce is really thick and bubbling
  2. Remove sauce from heat and stir in bourbon (optional)
  3. When sauce has cooled down a bit, stir in apples

Make Whipped Cream

  1. With a mixer (on low speed) or whisk, whip cream until almost frothy
  2. Add sugar and beat until cream holds peaks
  3. Use immediately or refrigerate in an air-tight container for about 5 hours

Assemble

  1. Scoop out center of chilled cupcakes
  2. Fill with caramel apple filling
  3. Top with whipped cream and garnish with crisp topping