Apple-Cranberry Crumble Cupcakes

To my mind these sounded a bit rubbish -and, to my mind, they were a bit funny. This may have been compounded by two factors:

1) I was very distracted when I made them, as I was waiting for the result of my MA

2) It's not quite the season for the "fresh cranberries" that Wagman recommends, neither is it the season for frozen ones. Rehydrated Sainsburys "snack-style flavoured cranberries" are not I think the same as either. Especially when you don't have enough of them and bulk them up with redcurrants (see picture). Oops.

Also I burnt the apple sauce that you had to put in the cake mix (though points I feel for it being HOME MADE, at least).

So the ingredients were wrong, or burnt, and I was incapable of timing them being in the oven, so the tops got burnt. Basically, my baking skills were vanquished by this silly silly recipe. Dammit Wagman, you beat me with seasonal fruit and wholesomeness!

However, Rachel liked them and the Daisy-o-meter said "more-ish" - which you could pun into "Moore-ish" (ha ha) if you wanted.

So, they may not be courgette, or lemon meringue, but they are actually the ones I've eaten most of - but that may be because I am too shamed to give them away (apart from to Carl - he's a cake-fiend).

A word on the topping: Wagman says Crumble, I say better to put left-over apple sauce on the top because it then goes all caramelly and chewy. Better than crumbly, according to Rachel.