Apple Pie Cupcakes with Streusel Topping
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 12 cupcakes
Ingredients
Cupcake:
- ⅓ cup light brown sugar
- 3 tbsp vegan margarine
- 2 granny smith apples, peeled and sliced
- 1 cup + 1 tbsp brown rice flour
- ⅓ cup + 2 tbsp potato starch
- 2 tbsp tapioca starch
- ½ tsp xantham gum
- ¼ tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 ½ tsp cinnamon
- 1 tbsp coconut flour
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- 2 tbsp grapeseed oil
- ½ cup almond milk
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 cup sugar
Streusel Topping:
- 2 tbsp chopped pecans
- 2 tbsp light brown sugar
- 3 tbsp vegan margarine
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- 2 tbsp coconut flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 12 cup cupcake pan with cupcake liners.
- Melt the margarine and light brown sugar in a small frying pan on medium heat. Add in sliced apples and fry them for about 10 minutes, mixing occasionally. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
- In the meantime, in a medium bowl whisk together brown rice flour, potato starch, tapioca starch, xantham gum, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, and coconut flour.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine applesauce, canola oil, almond milk, vanilla extract, and maple syrup. Mix all ingredients together.
- Carefully drain the liquid produced from fried apples from the frying pan and into the wet mixture. Add sugar and mix once more until sugar is blended in.
- Add flour mixture to wet mixture and mix all ingredients together. Do not over-mix.
- Spoon the batter into prepared pan. Top each cupcake with fried apple slices.
- Prepare streusel topping by placing all topping ingredients into a medium sized bowl and mixing everything by hand until small streusel crumbles are formed. Sprinkle each cupcake with topping.
- Place in the oven on center rack, and bake for 23 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out dry. Remove from oven and cool slightly. Serve warm.