Cinnamon and Apple Cupcakes

When i am feeling kind of antsy, restless, frustrated, and annoyed, i like to pace around my kitchen and busy myself with some form of baking. Tonight i had a craving for apple and cinnamon muffins/cupcakes. I have a recipe that will make your mouth water, it make 12 delicious muffins or 21 tasty cupcakes depending on what size you like.

Ingredients for cupcakes
2 cups plain flour
1 tbs baking powder (sounds like a lot but is necessary)
2 tsp ground cinnamon
3/4 cup of brown sugar
2 medium apples of your choice, peeled and grated
125g butter/margarine, melted and cooled
2 eggs
3/4 cup of milk

Ingredients for icing
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp butter (room temp)
2 tsps milk
1/4 cup icing sugar

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Grease a muffin or cupcake tin with melted butter or cooking spray.

Sift together the flour, baking powder and cinnamon. Add the grated apple and the brown sugar. Mix the eggs, milk and butter separately and then add to the dry ingredients. Stir through, but only enough so that it is mixed. Over mixing will result in firm muffins.

Spoon the mixture evenly into your muffin/cupcake tin. Place in the oven and bake for 20 mins. Allow to cool and then ice.

I'll admit they don't look like the most appetizing cupcakes, but they taste pretty good. The icing is the key, it's really tasty.

Petunia
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Hi friends

Ok, i really have been a busy Petunia lately. I've been crafting left right and center. I've knitted, i've sewn, i've worked out my own cute little patterns. And i even managed to make an AMANDA PALMER DOLL. But she will need an entire post dedicated just to her, she is after all one of my favorite singers. So for now let me introduce you to Clementine, Maggie and Skip. I worked out the patterns myself, and had a lot of fun hand sewing them. Very simple and easy, felt is a lovely fabric to work with when it comes to toys.

Skip and his little cotton tail and love heart birth mark. He is an orange rabbit ostracized by his warren, and has come to make friends with some other irregular little creatures.

Clementine is a giraffe, quite irregular in color, and has misplaced her splodges. She likes apples and staring at yellow objects. Maggie is a kitty, plain and simple. Blue because her previous owners thought it funny to bath her in permanent dye. 

My blind, deaf and mute lady was an experiment. I like her, she can stay. My mouse was also an experiment and turned out quite nicely, her skirt was fun to make.

Belinda the bunny and Eee the ghost. Belinda is one of my faves with her cute little scarf and sultry bunny eyes.

I haven't named these two little critters. The whale now belongs to Ellen so perhaps she might give it a suitable name. :)

A strange little family.

 Hope you like my odd little darlings. If you want to buy any make an offer and i will happily negotiate.

Petunia
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