Spiced Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting

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.

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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
• 1/2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon Sea Salt
• 3 Cups Powdered Sugar
• 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. .............................

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