Christmas Apple & Spice Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 2 cups SR flour, sifted
• 1 tsp Mixed Spice
• 1 tsp Nutmeg
• 3/4 cup Castor sugar
• 1/4 cup Apple juice
• 1/2 Milk
• 125 g Butter, melted
• 2 Eggs
• 1 cup Icing sugar
• Boiling water
• 1 tsp Cinnamon (Ground)
• 12 Glace cherries

Method

1. Grease a 12 cup muffin pan or line with patty pan cases. Preheat oven to 200°C
2. Sift together flour, Mixed Spice, Nutmeg and castor sugar in a large bowl. Make a well in the centre. Mix the apple juice, milk, butter and eggs and pour into the dry mix. Using a metal spoon, stir gently to combine.
3. Spoon mix carefully into the patty pan cases, then place in preheated oven. Bake for 12 – 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Cool on a wire cake rack.
4. When cold, combine icing sugar with just enough boiling water to make a thick paste, and ice the top of each cake carefully. Sprinkle each with a little cinnamon, then top with a glace cherry. If you can find it, serve with sprigs of holly or fresh apple leaf but remove before eating.