Apple and ginger mini cakes

Use interesting cake pans for these small cakes

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Makes 12 cupcakes

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1 x amount of cream cheese icing
5 ml nutmeg
10 ml ground cinnamon
2 apples, cut into thin rings
juice of 1 lemon

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1 Cover both sides of each apple slice with lemon juice and put on a bake sheet lined with baking paper.
2 Dry the apples.
3 Mix the spices with the cream cheese icing and spread over the cakes.
4 Garnish with dry apple slices.

Apple and ginger cupcakes

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1 Peel 4 medium apples and remove the pips. Cut into quarters. Cook the apple pieces in 100 g of sugar and 100g butter in a pan over low heat until it caramelises.
2 Cool and lift the apples from the syrup.
3 Mix with the batter and together with 60 ml (¼ c) ginger in syrup, finely chopped.

Cream cheese icing

Makes about 2 cups. Try this easy recipe!

250 g (250 ml) cream cheese
80 g icing sugar
10 ml lemon juice

1 Beat the cream cheese until smooth. Sift the icing sugar and mix thoroughly.
2 Add the lemon juice and stir.