I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ve never really been much of a cake person. To me, the best desserts are ooey-gooey and rich and dense, not light and fluffy and dry, which is too often the case with cake. I’ll eat it (I mean, who do you think I am?) but I would rather celebrate my birthday and other important events in life with cheesecake, pie, brownies, cookies, or a big ol’ bowl of ice cream.

So, you ask, why am I starting off a post on cupcakes with a rant on how lame-o cake can be? Honestly, it’s to emphasize that when I say these apple cupcakes are incredible, I mean they are super duper insanely incredible. They’ve shot to the top of my short list of The Exceptions to my meh-cake rule, which prior to trying these included only carrot cake, flourless chocolate cake, pumpkin cake, and these blue moon cupcakes. It’s a short but mighty list, these kings of my cake world, and these apple cupcakes with brown sugar frosting have nestled themselves riiiiiight up in the middle of it all. They’re SO good.

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