A soft, melt in your mouth, apple cider cinnamon cake is filled with an apple cider cranberry sauce, topped with a swirl of cinnamon cream cheese frosting and adorned with cinnamon sugar pie crust leaves and apple cider syrup.
Keeping this recipe from you has been agony!
Spiced Apple Cider Cranberry Cupcakes. It’s the Holidays in a cupcake!
I know. Lots going on here, but I promise the flavors come together perfectly. Cinnamon and apple cider are common themes in each component with a splash of cranberries thrown in for spice and tartness!
The cake is made with 100% brown sugar, which makes it delightfully moist and amplifies the cinnamon and apple cider flavors. It is soft with a delicate crumb but it is not light and fluffy like my cranberry cake recipe. If you’ve hung around here a while, you know that I like my cupcakes more dense than airy. That is just how I do.
The cranberry apple cider filling is my Cranberry Sauce and it is packed with fresh cranberries, apple cider, and apples, and seasoned with star anise, cinnamon and cardamom. You could also season it with apple pie spice! The tartness of the filling nicely complements the cake and frosting.
