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by Monika

Vanishing Cupcakes – Nutella Apple Cupcakes

These Nutella Apple Cupcakes have the goodness of whole wheat flour and apples and the deliciousness of Nutella! What more can you ask for?

I am calling these nutella apple cupcakes as vanishing cupcakes. And if you are wondering why, here is the reason 🙂  Yesterday,  my sister in law’s kids were at my home and predictably came and said auntie please bake something for us. I decided to bake these nutella apple cupcakes.

Nutella Apple Cupcakes

 

I made 18 of them and left them for cooling. When I came back after 30 mins and I saw only 10 of them left. I packed away one each for their snack boxes in the morning. Then again when I saw after an hour, there were only four left!!! I was pretty astonished and went ‘What? These are vanishing cupcakes :)’

These nutella apple cupcakes are low in fat and are filled with whole wheat flour which makes them healthy too.

I love baking this kind of cupcakes and muffins, which are healthy. Replacing the all purpose flour (maida) even by 50% with whole wheat flour means that you are making the food healthier. Add to that some fruits, and you can definitely make these for kids without worrying about it too much. Whether its savory muffins like the zucchini, corn and smoked cheese muffins, or sweet ones like the apple carrot and walnut ones, it is always a  hit among kids. I personally believe these healthy muffins and cupcakes are just right for lunchboxes because I know they will definitely be appreciated and enjoyed. And what more does a parent want than have their kids savor the taste of the food they are eating!

So make a batch of these amazing nutella apple cupcakes and you can see them vanish away in no time, just like I did 🙂

Recipe : Adapted from The Purple Foodie (which I told you earlier is my current blog love and has been for quite some time)

Vanishing Cupcakes - Nutella Apple Cupcakes

These Nutella Apple Cupcakes have the goodness of whole wheat flour and apples and the deliciousness of Nutella! What more can you ask for? 
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Course Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1/2 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup nutella
  • 2 apple pureed
  • 4 tbsps cocoa powder
  • 1/2 cup milk hot
  • 2 tsps baking powder
  • pinch baking soda
  • pinch salt
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions
 

  • Beat the eggs and sugar together till slightly fluffy. Add the pureed apples and Nutella. Beat a little more. Add the vanilla and stir.
  • Add the cocoa powder to it and mix well.
  • Sift together the salt, both the flours, baking powder and soda.
  • Add this along with the choco chips to the wet mixture made above and mix both till just mixed.
  • Pour the hot milk on top and mix again (don't overmix remember the golden rule of muffins is don't overmix the batter)
  • Pour in the lined muffin trays and bake in a pre heated oven at 180C for about 20 minutes or till done.

Notes

 
Some Notes: 
Add more Nutella for the glaze (i.e if you have some left for doing the decorations, I had to satisfy myself with just one)
If you are wondering why there is no oil or butter, well yes this is an oil free cupcake!  Interestingly, this was a mistake and happened by default.  I forgot to put the butter that Purple foodie mentions in the recipe I used for inspiration, but seriously the muffins were so good that I am happy that I didn't use any butter. I guess the pureed apples provided the necessary fat to it and I also increased the egg by one, which meant the batter was of the right consistency.
I wish I had a picture of the crumb shot to show you guys and let you see how nice and soft it was, but as I mentioned above, it got over before I knew and this one was the only one I could glaze with some Nutella 🙂
And with this we start another round of marathon, a 7-day marathon based on theme cooking and the theme that I have picked this time is the one very close to my heart! Yup, you guessed it right - It is Baked Goods 🙂
Please check out my fellow marathon bloggers who have picked up varied different themes to give you amazing dishes for the next one week.... Champa,Divya,Gayathri Anand,Gayathri Kumar,Padma Dharmaraj,Savitha, Smitha, Srivalli, Usha, Veena Aravind, PJ.
Also these muffins are off to Kids Delight - Restaurant Creations hosted by Champa originally an event by Valli and of course Champa's very own Bake-Off.
And also I am sending it to CBB - Celebrating Blogging & Bloggers.
 
If you make this, share a picture with me on twitter, instagram or Facebook? I would love to hear what you have to say about it !
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

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  1. Priya Mahadevan says

    Hi Monika, Lovely cupcakes – May be it’s my comp screen, but one suggestion I have for you is perhaps you can use a white plate or surface to take your picture – to show a little contrast ans have the cake stand out some more

    – I have a couple of events running in my blog that you might want to participate in –
    http://priyasnowserving.blogspot.com/2011/03/fast-food-not-fat-food-2011-march-1.html
    http://priyasnowserving.blogspot.com/2011/02/announcing-second-guest-event.html

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  3. champa says

    Funny how cupcakes disappear as soon as they are out of the oven. Temperature doesn’t seem to affect these when kids want to eat them. Nice one.

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  7. Dee says

    I’m a big fan of nutella so this one is for me 🙂 Last click looks yummy with nutella topping

    Deepa
    <a href=”http://hamareerasoi.blogspot.com/” rel=”nofollow”>Hamaree Rasoi</A>

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  8. The Purple Foodie says

    Thank you so much for the kind words about my blog, Monica! =) Also, I’m really impressed that kids ate up wholewheat muffins. I’ve not baked too much with wholewheat, thinking that they might be a tad dense, but this is encouraging. Also, interesting how you used apples in them – they’re super for cutting down on butter. Okay, so I just scrolled back up to double check – and NO butter? WOW! Mighty impressive.

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  9. umsreflections says

    WOW !!! Brilliantly simple yet delicious recipe…finished writing it down….to bake it by this weekend. 🙂 Awesome. 🙂

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  10. Smitha says

    the cupcakes look yum!! the nutella glaze looks good!
    Smitha
    <a href=”http://smithasspicyflavors.blogspot.com” rel=”nofollow”>Smitha’s Spicy Flavors</a>

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  15. Srivalli Jetti says

    Well no wonder they disappeared, the cupcakes look so tempting. So glad you took the pictures before they vanished..:)

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  16. monikamanchanda says

    oh but the pics are taken on the light background… will keep that in my mind in future too thanks for the feedback

    and yeah can I send this to fast not fat food?

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  23. monikamanchanda says

    shaheen I do a lot of whole wheat baking, I have a 3 yr old who loves eating baked goodies and I feel bad giving him maida all the time… I also did a post on tips of whole wheat baking… its not as difficult as it sounds trust me specially making half half is really no big deal 🙂

    and yes no butter I was impressed with myself too 🙂

    thanks

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