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November 2, 2015 By Nicole Harris 40 Comments

Spiced Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting

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This recipe was created as part of a brand ambassador partnership with Musselman’s Apple Butter.

Spiced Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting are the perfect Fall dessert! This easy recipe is great for holiday parties and meals. A very special secret ingredients adds a blast of flavor!

Spiced Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting are the perfect Fall dessert! This easy recipe is great for holiday parties and meals. A very special secret ingredients adds a blast of flavor!

I am so ready for the holiday season! I’m ready for hot mugs of cocoa, crisp weather and holiday baking . . . lots of baking!

Living in Northern California means that I only enjoy baking about 4 months out of the year. The other 8 months I basically live inside an oven!

It is a chilly 70 degrees here and I am a baking machine! Which means my “secret ingredient” is being added to many of my baked creations. Musselman’s Apple Butter adds a unique flavor to my holiday recipes that always gets a response from my taste testers. When I tell everybody what my {not-so} secret ingredient is they are surprised and delighted.

Check Out Musselman’s on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest for more recipe ideas!

Musselman's Apple Butter

Musselman’s Apple Butter adds an unbelievable depth of flavor to these moist, dense cupcakes. They have the taste of a spiced cupcake with a little something extra.

Spiced Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting are the perfect Fall dessert! This easy recipe is great for holiday parties and meals. A very special secret ingredients adds a blast of flavor!

And the Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting is the perfect topping for these cupcakes!

Spiced Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting are the perfect Fall dessert! This easy recipe is great for holiday parties and meals. A very special secret ingredients adds a blast of flavor!

A sprinkle of vanilla sugar brings the flavors together. These rustic Fall cupcakes will be a fantastic addition to your holiday feasts!

Spiced Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting are the perfect Fall dessert! This easy recipe is great for holiday parties and meals. A very special secret ingredients adds a blast of flavor!

So turn your oven on, grab our favorite “secret ingredient” and bake the day away!

Spiced Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting are the perfect Fall dessert! This easy recipe is great for holiday parties and meals. A very special secret ingredients adds a blast of flavor!

Spiced Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting are the perfect Fall dessert! This easy recipe is great for holiday parties and meals. A very special secret ingredients adds a blast of flavor!

Spiced Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting

Yield: 18
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes

These Spiced Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting are an indulgent Fall or Winter dessert.

Ingredients

cupcakes

  • 1/2 Cup Unsalted Butter - softened
  • 1 Cup Sugar
  • 1 Large Egg
  • 1 Cup Musselman's Apple Butter
  • 1/2 Cup Plain Greek Yogurt, or sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
  • 2 Cups All Purpose Flour
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
  • 1 teaspoon Sea Salt

frosting

  • 1/2 Cup Unsalted Butter - softened
  • 8 ounces Cream Cheese - softened
  • 1/8 teaspoon Sea Salt
  • 3 Cups Powdered Sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Instructions

cupcakes

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F
  2. Cream together butter and sugar. Mix in egg, apple butter, yogurt and vanilla.
  3. Sift together flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder and salt.
  4. Gradually mix in dry ingredients with wet.
  5. Divide batter between 18 standard muffin tins prepared with paper liners.
  6. Bake 25-27 minutes or until cooked through.
  7. Transfer to rack and allow to cool completely before frosting.

frosting

  1. Using whisk attachment; whip butter and cream cheese for 2 minutes.
  2. Add powdered sugar 1 cup at a time, mix for 1 minute between each addition.
  3. Mix in cinnamon, vanilla and salt.
  4. Mix 1-2 more minutes or until light and fluffy.
  5. Refrigerate frosting 15-30 minutes before piping onto cupcakes.

Notes

Refrigerate cupcakes until serving.

Nutrition Information
Yield 18 Serving Size 1
Amount Per Serving Calories 338Total Fat 15gSaturated Fat 9gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 5gCholesterol 51mgSodium 209mgCarbohydrates 48gFiber 1gSugar 35gProtein 3g

Nutritional information on WonkyWonderful is provided as a courtesy and is approximate only. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of the nutritional information given for any recipe on this site.

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Cuisine: American / Category: desserts

Spiced Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting are the perfect Fall dessert! This easy recipe is great for holiday parties and meals. A very special secret ingredients adds a blast of flavor!

I am proud to be partnering with Musselman’s Apple Butter to create several delicious recipes with my favorite “secret ingredient”.

Spiced Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting are the perfect Fall dessert! This easy recipe is great for holiday parties and meals. A very special secret ingredients adds a blast of flavor!

 

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  1. Beverley Press says

    November 3, 2015 at

    Apple Butter sounds so divine and in cupcakes it must be so moist and delicious, thank you xoxo

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      November 4, 2015 at

      It does make these cupcakes super moist! Thanks, Beverley šŸ™‚

      Reply
  2. Erin @ Texanerin Baking says

    November 3, 2015 at

    Haha. A chilly 70 degrees. šŸ˜‰ Sounds good to me! And these cupcakes look so delightful. I love Musselman’s and bet it must make the cupcakes even more delicious!

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      November 4, 2015 at

      LOL, Thanks Erin!

      Reply
  3. Barbara @ Barbara Bakes says

    November 4, 2015 at

    I’ve never baked with apple butter. Such a great idea.

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      November 4, 2015 at

      What!?!? It makes baked goods taste so unique. Hmmm … apple butter cream puffs, maybe šŸ˜‰

      Reply
  4. TidyMom says

    November 4, 2015 at

    Apple butter + Fall + Cupcakes = perfect!!! although I have to admit, I enjoy apple butter all year long, these cupcakes are calling my name

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      November 4, 2015 at

      YES! This recipe screams Fall. And I am so happy to hear that you use apple butter year round … so do I!

      Reply
  5. tanya says

    November 8, 2015 at

    LOL your chilly 70 degrees is my heat wave! We are on the fringe of cold weather here and thee cupcakes would fit in nicely! So pretty too!

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      November 10, 2015 at

      Thanks Tanya! It finally started raining here today. Yay!

      Reply
  6. Susan says

    November 9, 2015 at

    You can just tell from these photos how moist these cupcakes are from the apple butter and they look like fall! Total comfort right here.

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      November 10, 2015 at

      Yes! The apple butter adds so much moisture (and flavor) to these cupcakes.

      Reply
  7. Beth says

    September 15, 2016 at

    I made these yesterday just as you wrote above and for the first time ever I had my cupcakes come out dense and didn’t rise. So upset as I was taking these to a work anniversary party. I make cupcakes weekly for parties etc and this is my first bad batch. They sounded so good and smelled devine but didn’t come out at all. Still not sure why.

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      September 18, 2016 at

      Oh no, I’m sorry to hear about your experience with this recipe. Typically a recipe fail can be tracked down to user error or ingredient issues but it seems that you are a cupcake pro. I recall making this recipe over and over before posting last year (I was up to my eyeballs in cupcakes!) But, mistakes do happen. I will plan on remaking this recipe to check for any errors. Thanks for your feedback šŸ™‚

      Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      October 27, 2016 at

      Hi Beth, I had a chance to remake these cupcakes exactly by the recipe. I wanted to test and make sure there wasn’t a typo or error of some kind. As you can see by the photo my cupcakes turned out so I am at a loss as to what could’ve caused the issue. Sorry it is not of more help.

      https://wonkywonderful.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Unknown.jpg

      Reply
  8. Cori says

    September 20, 2016 at

    Hi! Most amazing recipe ever. Do you think this is ok to bake as a cake? I don’t want to lose any moistness. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      September 21, 2016 at

      Thanks Cori!I have not made this as a cake before so I can’t say for sure. I imagine it would do well as a sheet cake. Let me know if you give it a go šŸ™‚

      Reply
  9. Samantha says

    October 2, 2016 at

    I just took these cupcakes out of the oven and had the exact same issue as Beth wrote above. They didn’t rise at all! I have checked and re-checked the ingredients and can’t figure out what went wrong! I am pretty disappointed as I wad bringing these to a bridal shower this afternoon.

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      October 12, 2016 at

      Sorry for my delayed response, Samantha. I hate to hear that you had issue with this recipe. I will be remaking it this week to check for any errors in the recipe as it has been a while since I last made them. I will get back to you with the results. Thanks for your feedback.

      Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      October 27, 2016 at

      Hi Samantha, I had a chance to remake these cupcakes exactly by the recipe. I wanted to test and make sure there wasn’t a typo or error of some kind. As you can see by the photo my cupcakes turned out so I am at a loss as to what could’ve caused the issue. Sorry it is not of more help.

      https://wonkywonderful.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Unknown.jpg

      Reply
  10. Rachel B. says

    November 9, 2016 at

    Does anyone know how much baking time I’d need to decrease for mini cupcakes?

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      November 10, 2016 at

      Sorry Rachel, I have never made these as mini cupcakes so I can’t say for sure. You may just want to check on them every 5 minutes until they look done. šŸ™‚

      Reply
  11. Shannon says

    January 28, 2017 at

    Hi, I noticed the recipe doesn’t have baking soda in it. Is this possibly why others are having issues? I haven’t tried it yet but want to so just thought I would clarify first. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      January 30, 2017 at

      I don’t always use baking soda in my cupcakes and never have an issue. In fact, I just recently made these again without a problem. Of course, a little baking soda certainly wouldn’t hurt. Let me know if you give it a try. Thanks šŸ™‚

      Reply
  12. Tina says

    September 7, 2017 at

    Hi Nicole:

    I loved that you used apple butter. I like to put it in my favorite barbecue sauce. It really adds to the flavor without adding too much spice or too much sweetness.. I can’t wait to try these cupcakes!

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      September 11, 2017 at

      Yes, exactly! I hope you enjoy šŸ™‚

      Reply
  13. Beth says

    October 20, 2017 at

    Hello Nicole,

    I was wondering if these cupcakes need anything added to them if we don’t have access to apple butter?

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      October 24, 2017 at

      I have only used apple butter and that is what gives it the deep flavor. Apple sauce would add extra liquid and not a lot of flavor. You could always make homemade apple butter if you really wanted to go with it.

      Reply
  14. Terry Aiton says

    October 21, 2017 at

    I’ve never heard of apple butter and it doesn’t seem to be available here in Australia. Can you suggest a substitute, or should I just make the cupcakes without it? Thanks

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      October 24, 2017 at

      I have only used apple butter and that is what gives it the deep flavor. Apple sauce would add extra liquid and not a lot of flavor. You could always make homemade apple butter if you really wanted to go with it.

      Reply
  15. Ashley says

    October 30, 2017 at

    Do these cupcakes need any water added to them? It is the most thick cupcake batter I have ever made. I have not baked them yet, but we will see how they turn out!

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      October 31, 2017 at

      This is a very thick batter. The greek yogurt and apple butter make the batter thick and the baked cupcakes moist. šŸ™‚

      Reply
  16. Alexis says

    February 9, 2018 at

    I made these for thanksgiving 2017 and they were super dense. Followed the recipe to a T. They were still delicious just very heavy. These cinnamon cream cheese recipe is my favorite though!

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      February 13, 2018 at

      Yes, these cupcakes are more on the dense, moist side. I am glad you loved the frosting though. I’ve been know to just eat the frosting off of cupcakes, myself šŸ˜€

      Reply
  17. Leyni Illa-Petersen says

    June 1, 2018 at

    Is that cinnamon sprinkled on top in the pictures? Or…cinnamon/sugar? Or…something else? I don’t see anything about it in the description. šŸ™‚ I just made them…to take to work tomorrow….so I hope they’re good!

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      June 3, 2018 at

      That was a Rodelle Vanilla Sugar Crystals . . . unfortunately they don’t make it anymore :/

      Reply
  18. Shanna says

    September 19, 2018 at

    I made this last fall for a meeting at work and my teammates and admin team loved them (so did I). Since school has started back my assistant principal has been begging me to make them again. So I’m making them to take to work Friday. They are dense but have amazing flavor. The frosting is to die for. I used gold sprinkles on top just for a little pop of color. Thank you for a great recipe.

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      September 24, 2018 at

      Awesome! Happy Fall šŸ˜€

      Reply
  19. Erica says

    November 19, 2018 at

    All I have is a 12 ct cupcake pan. Would that make any difference with the cooking time ?

    Reply
    • Nicole Harris says

      November 19, 2018 at

      You will have leftover batter with this recipe if only making 12 cupcakes. Only fill tins 3/4 the way full or they will spill over. The bake time should be the same though.

      Reply

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