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Nutrition Facts

  • One serving:
  • (1 each)
  • Calories:
  • 164
  • Fat:
  • 6 g
  • Saturated Fat:
  • 3 g
  • Cholesterol:
  • 49 mg
  • Sodium:
  • 247 mg
  • Carbohydrate:
  • 25 g
  • Fiber:
  • 1 g
  • Protein:
  • 3 g

Applesauce Spice Cupcakes

"I began making these moist cupcakes in grade school and still bake them," says field editor Edna Hoffman of Hebron, Indiana.

SERVINGS

 12

CATEGORY

 Dessert

METHOD

 Baked

PREP

 15 min.

COOK

 25 min.

TOTAL

 40 min.

INGREDIENTS

  • 1/3 cup butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1-1/3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 3/4 cup applesauce
  • Cream cheese frosting

DIRECTIONS

In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla; mix well. Combine dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with applesauce.
    Fill greased of paper-line muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack. Frost cooled cupcakes. Yield: 1 dozen.

Printed from tasteofhome.com Sep 6, 2008

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