Cardamom Apple Mini Cakes

• FOR THE CAKE:
• 2-1/4 cups Flour
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1/2 teaspoons Salt
• 1 teaspoon Ground Cardamom
• 2 whole Eggs
• 1-1/2 cup Sugar
• 1-1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
• 1 cup Natural Apple Sauce
• 1/2 cups Melted Butter
• 1/2 cups Buttermilk
• 3 whole Peeled And Chopped Golden Delicious Apples
• FOR THE GLAZE:
• 1 Tablespoon Melted Butter
• 1-1/2 cup Confectioners Sugar
• 3 Tablespoons Apple Juice
• 1/4 teaspoons Cinnamon

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour a mini bundt cake pan (the typical pan makes 6 mini cakes at a time). Using this recipe it makes 12 mini cakes. You could use two 12-count cupcake pans and it would make 24 cupcakes.
2. Sift the flour, baking soda, salt and cardamom together and set aside.
3. Beat the eggs and sugar together, using a mixer on medium-high speed, until the mixture forms a thick ribbon when the beaters are lifted from the bowl. Reduce the speed to low and mix in the vanilla and applesauce. Add 1/2 cup melted butter, 1/2 cup buttermilk and beat until combined. Gradually add the flour mixture and mix until smooth. Fold in the apples until combined.
4. Put about a 1/2 cup of batter in each mold. Bake for about 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
5. Cool for about 5 minutes and unmold the cakes and cool completely.
6. Glaze
7. Stir the remaining melted butter, confectioner's sugar, cinnamon and the apple juice together in a medium sized bowl until smooth and drizzle over the cooled cakes. Let the glaze set before serving.

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Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/desserts/cardamom-apple-mini-cakes/ (may not work)