These low carb apple roses cupcakes look elegant and complicated but actually are easy to make. Made with coconut flour and flavoured with cinnamon they are a delicious low carb and gluten free cupcake
Thin slices of apple are placed in the cupcake batter to resemble a rose. The result is a wonderfully moist cinnamon cupcake with an apple topping. These cupcakes smell tempting when baking too!
When I showed these to the Chief Taster I received the double edged compliment of "I didn't know you could cook so elegantly". If anyone needs him, he can be contacted on the sofa until further notice.
Are apples keto?
Before the keto police gather their pick forks, apples are not strictly keto at they are 11.4g net carbs per 100g. However, this recipe uses one apple and thinly slices it. Distributed between 6 cupcakes the whole recipe works out to be just 4g net carbs each cupcake.
How to make low carb apple roses cupcakes
Making the roses is as simple as placing the apple slices into the cupcake mixture and layering them within each other. Visual steps of how to do this is below.
The cupcake batter is an easy coconut flour recipe that I use. This recipe makes just 6 cupcakes so you may want to double the quantities if you want to bake a larger batch.
The ingredients
- Coconut flour (if want to use almond flour, I've listed a suggestion in the recipe tips below).
- Monkfruit - I used brown monkfruit for a deeper flavour to go with the cinnamon. Regular white sweetener will work out just fine too.
- Apple - Red was used for the colour but green will be just as pretty.
- Butter
- Eggs
- Cinnamon
- Almond milk
- Vanilla Extract
- Baking powder & salt
Making the apple roses
- Remove the core of the apple and cut into thin slices. Place the slices in a bowl with water and lemon and microwave for 3 minutes to soften them. They need to be soft to roll and taste better too.
- Pour the coconut flour cake batter into cupcake liners.
- Star with the larger apple slices and place them on the outer edge of the cupcake.
- Place more slices inside the outside slices.
- For the center, roll a small apple slice and place that in the centre of the cupcake.
- Ready to bake!
Recipe Tips
Slice the apple pieces as thin as you can for a delicate apple rose.
Lightly dust the apple slices in cinnamon before assembly for a stronger cinnamon taste.
Almond flour could be used in place of coconut flour. I would recommend the recipe for my strawberry muffins for the cupcake batter. Then add the apple slices. This cupcake recipe makes more cupcakes so you may need to adjust the quantities.
More low carb cupcakes
Lemon Cupcakes with Blackberry Frosting
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This recipe was originally posted in August 2016. I've updated the photos and content but the recipe remains the same.
Apple Roses Cupcake
Ingredients
- ¼ cup coconut flour
- ¼ cup butter melted
- 3 medium eggs
- ¼ cup monkfruit sweetener or other low carb sweetener
- 3 tablespoons almond milk
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Apple Slices
- 5 oz red apple core removed
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons water
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 200C/400F degrees.
- Blend the butter, eggs, erythritol, vanilla essence and coconut milk.
- Add the coconut flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon and whisk until the batter is smooth
- Pour the batter into cupcake cups.
- Slice the apple into quarter and remove the pips and core.
- Thinly slice the apple and place in a bowl with the lemon and water.
- Cook the apple slices in a microwave for 3 minutes to soften the slices.
- Gently place the apple slices into the cupcake batter with the peeled edge on the top. Start on the outside and place the slices inside each other to produce a rose effect.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes until firm.
- Eat and enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
The information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator.
Sachi
I love these cupcakes they are so adorable and tasty!
Angela Coleby
Thank you
MacKenzie
These cupcakes are beautiful. My daughter and I made them today and they turned out perfect. Super moist and flavorful.
Angela Coleby
Thanks!
Glenda
Moist cupcakes and beautiful apple roses as toppers! What's not to like? We loved them. Thank you!
Angela Coleby
Glad you enjoyed them!
Jennifer
These are so pretty, and they were delish, too! I loved that they're lower in carbs, too! I'll be making these often!
Angela Coleby
That's so lovely to hear, thank you!
K
Lemme just flex m creative cupcake skills right now! These turned out beautiful and everyone raved about how pretty they were!
Angela Coleby
Delighted you enjoyed them!
Sophie
Ooh waw, you are so creative, dear Angela! These look so pretty & amazing! xxx
sarah
Fabulous recipes been watching them consistently for some time - may I use half a dozen of them for my website with a credit to you? Do you have any with coconut oil as an ingredient? I'm more of a blogger and my recipe section looks a bit sparse. Can you help at all? Am I being a bit cheeky?
Kindest regads
Sarah
One Into Food
Angela Coleby
Hi Sarah.
As long as you link back to my recipes and give me credit that it fine by me. I have a few coconut oil recipes with some of my earlier cupcake recipes using it. There is a search button on the website, enter coconut oil and see what pops up.