A cupcake is a tasty and energetically valuable pastry, so a good cupcake can perfectly complement breakfast and keep you strong during the day if you cannot eat fully.
But for the same reason, a cupcake is not the most suitable food for those who want to lose weight.
But you can do it just once a week, right?
Applecake - general principles
The cake dough necessarily includes fat (vegetable or butter), if it is a sweet cake (because there are, after all, unsweetened, cheese, for example) - sugar in sufficient quantity, usually also eggs. To make the dough better, baking powder and soda are used, which should be quenched with lemon juice or vinegar.
You can bake a large cupcake with apples, and you can prefer a small, portioned. Then the dish will cook faster. There are various express recipes for the microwave.
Apples for baking is better to choose with dense pulp, such as Granny, Bogatyr or Semerenko. They will not wander too quickly. When preparing the muffins with apples, peel off the fruit should be cleaned, and the pulp grated or finely chopped, depending on the recipe.
Flour when cooking is necessary to sift. In wheat flour, you can add semolina, a little (up to one-fifth of the volume) of rye or oat flour, which will greatly enrich the cupcake with apples with valuable nutrients. Buckwheat flour is also very useful, but has a pronounced taste, which will be noticeable. If this does not bother you, replace a small part of buckwheat wheat flour.
The cake dough with apples is quite liquid, it is poured into molds. Pre-forms should be lightly greased and sprinkled with something: crackers, decoy. If the finished cupcake does not want to get out of the mold, turn it over and put a towel soaked in cold water on the bottom.
To prevent problems, lubricate the form carefully, generously sprinkle it with semolina. And even better for making a cupcake with apples, use silicone or just paper forms.
Recipe 1. Muffins with apples and cranberries
This apple cake is best cooked in a large shape, then cranberry will be visible on the cut, which will give the product an aesthetic look.
Ingredients
Semolina - 250 g
Flour - 350 g
Granulated sugar - 300 g
Eggs - 3 pieces
Kefir (can be replaced by drinking yogurt with berry or apple flavor) - 450 ml (small bottle)
Butter - 100 g
Baking Powder - 3 small spoons
Apples - 3 fairly large
Frozen cranberries - about 150 g
Method of preparation
Semolina, mixed with granulated sugar, pour kefir (or yogurt) and mix thoroughly. Leave to swell for at least an hour.
In the meantime, washed and peeled apples should be grated large enough, thawed cranberries, washed beforehand, melted butter.
In the swollen semolina put the melted butter and start beating the mixture with a mixer. Beat the eggs one at a time, whipping incessantly, and then a little more flour mixed with baking powder. When the dough becomes smooth and fluffy, gently knead grated apples and cranberries.
Put the resulting dough into a suitable form, oiled with butter and sprinkled with semolina so as to fill it in two-thirds of the volume, and put in an oven that is preheated to 180 degrees. Bake cupcake for about 40 minutes, checking readiness with the help of a splinter.
Recipe 2. “Quick” cupcake with apples in the microwave
This apple muffin will be an excellent breakfast for children, as it is tasty, satisfying and cooks in literally 15 minutes. From the specified number of products you get four medium sized cakes. However, it depends on the volume of the molds. The main thing is that they are filled only to the middle, as in the process of making the dough it will greatly increase in volume.
Ingredients
Flour - 8 tablespoons
Vegetable oil - 100 ml and another tablespoon
Starch - 1 tablespoon
Eggs - 2 pieces
Apple - one large or 2 medium
Milk - 100 ml
Sugar - 6 tablespoons
Vanilla sugar - a couple of tablespoons
Soda, hydrated with lemon juice - half a teaspoon
Method of preparation
Wash, peel and peel the apples selected for a cupcake and cut into medium-sized slices. Roll them in starch. Heat a spoonful of butter in a pan and put the apple slices. On a large fire, fry the slices quickly, then immediately put them in molds. Mix with a whisk or a mixer sugar, egg, butter, vanilla sugar and milk. Gradually knead the flour, and then soda, slaked with lemon juice.
Put the dough on top of the apples so that the molds are half full.
It is necessary to bake muffins in the microwave with an output of 600 W, usually it takes three to three and a half minutes, sometimes a little more.
Recipe 3. Cupcake with apples, cottage cheese and lemon zest
An unusually healthy and flavorful fruitcake with apples and zest will help feed the little whims with useful curd.
Ingredients
Apples - 2 pieces
Cottage cheese - 200 g (it is better to take not liquid, but rather crumbly cottage cheese and pre-wipe it through a colander or a sieve)
Granulated sugar - 300 g
Flour - about 3 glasses
Water or milk - half a cup
Three eggs
Butter (melt) - 150 g
Vanilla sugar - a pair of teaspoons
Baking Powder - 10 g
Lemon zest from half citrus
Method of preparation
Mix sugar with melted butter, add vanilla sugar and mix everything in cottage cheese, then knead the milk; then put eggs one by one. After each need to carefully mix the dough. Remove the zest, chop and knead in the dough too. Mix flour and baking powder and gradually pour into the dough.
Make sure that the dough does not become too thick.
Wash apples, peel and chop them finely. Stir in the dough for the cake with apples.
Put in baking tins and bake for about 40 minutes in the oven at 180 - 190 degrees.
Recipe 4. Diet cake with apples
Ingredients
Oatmeal (if desired, you can take not oatmeal, and multigrain) - 1.5 cups
Rye flour - 100 g
Apples - 3 pieces
Kefir - one and a half glasses
Liquid honey - a full 3 tablespoons
Eggs - 2 pieces
Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons
Cinnamon - a half spoon (tea)
Baking Powder - 1 tsp.
Method of preparation
Flakes pour kefir and leave to infuse for two or three hours.
Beat eggs into the mixture, add honey and mix well.
Wash, peel and cut apples into small cubes. Knead in the dough. Mix the baking powder with flour and cinnamon and, gradually pouring the mixture, knead the dough. Spread the dough in molds and bake for about half an hour in an oven heated to 200 degrees.
Recipe 5. Cupcake with apples and nuts
Ingredients
Flour - 200g
Apples - a pair of medium-sized pieces
Eggs - 2 pieces
Sugar - 200 g (part of it is better to take vanilla)
Walnuts (peeled) - 100 g
Butter - 150 g
Ground spices (cinnamon, ginger, etc.) - a couple of teaspoons
Baking Powder - Half a Teaspoon
Salt, soda - on a pinch
Method of preparation
Mix flour with spices, baking powder, salt and soda. Apples, after washing and peeling, grate large. Calcify the nuts in the oven or microwave and peel. Chop them with a knife or roll a rolling pin.
Separately, beat eggs with sugar and butter with a mixer. Gradually introduce the flour and knead thoroughly and carefully.
Pour into the dough apples and nuts and mix with a spatula, trying to do it carefully.
Grease the form you are going to use. Place the prepared dough there and send it to the oven, which has already been heated to 180 degrees.
The cake is baked for about an hour, the readiness should be checked with a splinter.
This cupcake often sticks to the walls, so it is better to cook it in paper or silicone form.
Recipe 6. Lenten muffins with apples and carrots
Such a cupcake with apples can be cooked during fasting or if you do not eat animal products.
Ingredients
Carrots - 100 g
Apple is one big
Vegetable oil - half a cup
Water or juice - 1 glass
Sugar - full glass
Wheat or mixed flour - 150 g
Chopped walnuts - half a cup
Baking powder - half a teaspoon
Method of preparation
Peel the carrots and apples and grate the carrots very finely, and the apple coarsely.
Heat the nuts, peel off the film and chop or roll with a rolling pin.
Mix flour with sugar and baking powder, gradually adding oil first and then water, knead medium-thick dough. Add carrots, apples and nuts. Mix everything thoroughly and leave to infuse, while waiting until the oven heats to a temperature of 180 degrees.
Place the dough in the form or small molds, given that it will rise in the baking process. Oven for about an hour, checking readiness using a torch.
Recipe 7. Apple-cake and cocoa
Ingredients
Apples - 2 pieces
Eggs - 4 pieces
Semolina - half a cup
Gingerbread - 100 g
Honey - 150 g
Cocoa - 2 tablespoons
Cinnamon - half a teaspoon
For powdered cake sprinkle - powdered sugar
Method of preparation
Grind the gingerbread in a blender or using a meat grinder. Apples peel and grate finely. Mix with gingerbread, add cinnamon and let stand for at least half an hour.
Meanwhile, separate the whites from the yolks. Beat the mixer with cocoa and honey. Stir in the same grated apple with gingerbread and soda. Squirrel separately beat in a thick foam and using a spatula gently mix.
The form should be thoroughly lubricated with butter and lightly sprinkled with semolina or breadcrumbs. Put the dough there and bake for about 50 minutes in an oven heated to 180 degrees.
After the cake is baked, you need to let it stand, and then remove it and sprinkle with powdered sugar on top.
Recipe 8. Cupcake with apples and almond petals
Ingredients
Flour - 250 g
Margarine or butter - 150 g
Eggs - 2 pieces
Apples - 4 pieces
Sugar - 150 g + 2 tablespoons brown
Cinnamon, Ginger, etc. - 1 teaspoon
Baking Powder - 1 tsp.
Almond petals
Method of preparation
First you need to soften the butter in the microwave and then beat it with a mixer with sugar. Alternately add, stirring carefully, eggs.
Mix flour with spices and baking powder and carefully add to the oil mixture.
Peel the apples off the apples and then cut them, for example, in small cubes.
Shape a good amount of oil and place half of the dough into it. Then put 2/3 of the apples, now the remaining dough and the remaining apples. Sprinkle the top with brown sugar and almond petals.
Bake in the oven for about 45 minutes. The temperature set, as usual, 180 degrees.
It is better to cool the cake in shape and only then get it.
Applecake - Tricks and Tips
- To make delicious and airy cupcakes, take the freshest eggs for them. They are better whipped.
- Honey for baking is better to take light, such as floral or lime. It should be quite liquid. You can improve the consistency of honey, if you melt it by placing it in a water bath.
- You can add raisins to the muffins with apples, as well as dried cranberries, cherries, and candied fruits. Before adding to the dough, raisins should be sprinkled with flour. To do this, pour a spoonful of flour into a bowl of raisins and shake the bowl until the raisins are covered with a uniform layer of flour. This is done to better “melt” the raisins into the dough.
- It is convenient to use a mixer for making dough. However, not if you need to mix whipped proteins or whipped egg mixture into the flour mixture. In this case, in order not to damage the structure of the dough, it is necessary to use a spatula, which gently mix the dough from the bottom up.
- It is impossible to accurately indicate the amount of flour: it is very different. Therefore, follow the consistency of the dough. It should resemble a good thick sour cream.
- It is also impossible to accurately determine the time for baking a cake in the oven. Do not rely on recommendations from the recipe (they are indicative) and on the appearance of baking. The readiness of a cupcake with apples is determined using a torch - a long thin stick, the production of which should be entrusted to the owner of the house. If there is no owner, you can buy wooden skewers for kebabs in the store, they are suitable for this purpose.
- The Luchin should be stuck in a cupcake to the bottom of the form, slightly turned and taken out. Stuck in the finished cupcake stains remain dry. If it is wet or with a sticky dough, it is necessary to continue baking.
