Applesauce Cupcakes

*Update* Recipes now follow the post.
Recently, I made applesauce. This due to a surplus of apples from our trees this year. Lots and lots of applesauce. I used some for applesauce cupcakes with caramel frosting. The recipes for both the cupcakes and the frosting came from my mom's Fannie Farmer cookbook. The 1951 edition.Too bad I didn't have the right decorative doo-dads to top them off. People around here didn't seem to mind.

Applesauce Cake/Cupcakes
(Calls for 1/2 c. shortening-ack.) *I use unsalted butter*
1 c. brown sugar
1 cup cold, unsweetened applesauce
2 c. flour
1 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. powdered cloves

Cream butter; beat in sugar gradually. Add applesauce. Add flour sifted with soda, salt, and spices. Spread in 2 buttered and floured 9-in. pans. (Or a linedmuffin tin) Bake 40 minutes at 350.
(Makes about 12 cupcakes)


Caramel Frosting
1/2 c. butter
1/2 c. brown sugar
1/4 c. milk
1 3/4 c. confectioners' sugar
1 tsp. vanilla

Melt butter in small pan, add brown sugar, and cook until sugar melts. Add milk. Cool and beat in confectioners' sugar until thick enough to spread. Add vanilla.