Apple Cider Cupcakes & Salted Caramel Buttercream. featured in Homemade Apple Cider And Apple Cider Cupcakes. 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! Apple Cider Cupcakes & Salted Caramel Buttercream

You can have Apple Cider Cupcakes & Salted Caramel Buttercream using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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

Nothing says fall better than apples! Use Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ yellow cake mix, apple cider and grated apple to bake these delicious cupcakes - perfect dessert recipe! These cupcakes have all the flavor of apple cider and are perfect for this time of year. If you use fresh apple cider, they taste even more amazing!

Apple Cider Cupcakes & Salted Caramel Buttercream step by step

  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..

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