Apple Tree IC: Music

IRON CUPCAKE HERE I COME!
The first cupcake challenge of the year and the theme is Music! I've chosen "Apple Tree" by Erykah Badu. I've created the "Apple Tree Cupcake", a chai spiced cupcake with apple cinnamon filling and a apple-chai cream cheese frosting.
I am competing for the following prizes!

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"Apple Tree" Cupcakes by Erykah Badu
These Cupcake are in honor of Erykah Badu's "Apple Tree" Lyrics to follow.

Spiced Chai(ish) Cupcakes
For 12 Cupcakes
Dry

1 ½ cups cake flour
1 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon Cinnamon (for cake color)
1/2 teaspoon clove
Wet
½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 oz evaporated milk (+ 2 tablespoons water)
Flavor
2 drops Clove oil
2 drops Anise oil
2 drops Cinnamon oil
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a muffin tin with cupcake liners.
  1. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together into a medium bowl.
  2. Soften the butter and mix with wet ingredients; sugar, eggs vanilla, milk.
  3. Fold all the wet and dry together until smooth. Add the spice oils and fold until well incorporated.
  4. Spoon the batter into each cupcake liner about ¾ full with batter. Bake in oven for 15 to 18 minute or until a toothpick inserted in the cupcakes comes out clean.
  5. Let cupcakes cool before decorating.


Meanwhile, make the applesauce:
Cinnamon Apple Sauce
1 Gala Apples
2 Golden Delicious Apples
2 Fuji Apples (small)
1 cup water (plus 1/2 cup)
Juice of 2 oranges
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
  1. Peel, Core and dice the apples and put them in a sauce pan.
  2. Add all other ingredients, minus the 1/2 cup water, and place over Medium High heat. If you do not have enough liquid to cover the apples add more water.
  3. Let boil until apples are translucent and the liquid has reduced to a thick sauce.
  4. Loosely mash the apples leaving some pieces hole for texture. (The sauce is going to be put into a piping bag so the pieces need to be small enough to fit through your filling tip.
  5. Add another 1/2 cup of water and let the sauce thicken.
  6. Take the saucepan off the heat and let cool completely before handling.
  7. Put sauce in a piping back with a filling tip or round tip.
  8. If you are using a round tip, use a melon baller and core each cupcake just deep enough for 1/2 tsp of filling. Fill each cupcake with the sauce, being sure to round off the top

And the frosting! It's not a cupcake without frosting:
Chai(ish) Apple Cream cheese Frosting
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 box (4 cups) confectioners sugar
4 oz. cream cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 drops clove oil
3 drops anise oil
6 drops cinnamon
6 drops apple oil
Food coloring
  1. Cream butter, sugar and vanilla until completely incorporated. Frosting may be thick but will loosen when you add the food coloring and oils
  2. Divide the frosting in half and add clove, anise and cinnamon oils to one half the frosting. Add food coloring, I added green and yellow for a Golden Delicious Apple color. Set aside.
  3. To the other half, whip in cream cheese until smooth. If frosting is too loose add more confectioners sugar until it is about the same consistency of the butter cream. Add Apple oil and food coloring. I used Red and Yellow to make a Gala Apple color.
  4. Put a piping tip in a plastic bag and fasten with a coupler. Alternate scooping the butter cream and the cream cheese frosting into the bag. This will make a marbled frosting depending on how you pipe it onto the cupcakes. Frost your cupcake and let firm in the refrigerator. If your frosting is runny from whipping and/or heat, put it in the refrigerator for up to an hour before frosting your cupcakes.
Lastly, the decoration:
Candy Apple
1/2 cup Pure White Candy melts
2 drops Apple Oil
Food Coloring, of your choice
Tiny Fruit Candy Mold
  1. Melt the candy according to the package directions.
  2. Add color and flavor and mix thoroughly.
  3. Pour or pipe melted candy into the molds.
  4. Let cool on the counter or in the freezer.
  5. Pop the candies out of the mold and set aside in a cool, dry place or in the refrigerator.

"Apple Tree"
by Erykah Badu

I'd like to dedicate this to all of the Creator's righteous children.
I have some food in my bag for you.
Not that edible food -- the food you eat?
No. I have some food for thought.
Since knowledge is infinite it has infinitely fell on me.
So umm...

It was a stormy night
you know the kind where the lightning strike
and I was hangin' out wit some of my "artsy" friends
ooh wee ooh wee oooh
The night was long the night went on
people coolin' out until the break of dawn
incense was burnin' so I'm feelin right -- ah'ight

See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
& Ganny told me that when I was only a youth
I don't go 'round trying to be what I'm not
I don't waste my time trying ta get what you got
I work at pleasin' me cause I can't please you
and that's why I do what I do
My soul flies free like a willow tree
doo wee doo wee do wee

And if you don't want to be down with me
You don't want to pick from my appletree
And if you don't want to be down with me
Then you don't want to pick from my appletree
And if you don't want to be down with me
Then you don't want to pick from my appletree
And if you don't want to be down with me
You just don't want to be down

I have a ho
and I take it everywhere I go
Cause I'm planting seeds
so I reaps What I sow -- ya know
Oh on & on & on & on
my cipher keeps movin' like a rollin' stone
I can't control the soul flowin' in me
ooh wee

See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
& Ganny told me that when I was only a youth
I don't walk around trying to be what I'm not
I don't waste my time trying ta get what you got
I work at pleasin' me cause I can't please you
and that's why I do what I do
My soul flies free like a willow tree
doo wee doo wee do wee

And if you don't want to be down with me,
You don't want to pick from my appletree [x3]
And if you don't want to be down with me
You just don't want to be down

Oh my my my
Oh my my my
Oh my my my ahh
Oh my my my my my my my
Ohh
I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
& Ganny told me that when I was only a youth
I don't walk around trying to be what I'm not
I don't waste my time trying ta get what you got
I work at pleasin' me cause I can't please you
and that's why I do what I do
My soul flies free like a willow tree
doo wee doo wee do wee

And if you don't want to be down with me
You don't want to pick from my appletree
And if you don't want to be down with me
You dum dum diddy
And if you don't want to be down with me
You don't want to pick from my appletree
And if you don't want to be down with me
You just don't want to be down
You just don't want to be down
Ohh you just don't want to be down
Down, down, down
You just don't want to be down
Ohh
You just don't want to be down
down [x15]
wanna be down
no oh no
You just don't want to be down
no no no
You just don't want to be down



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