Walnut Maple Cupcakes

Maple Walnut Cupcakes with Fresh Candied Walnuts

Mels and I have been talking about how we don’t feel like we’ve been experimental enough recently, which lead to brainstorming.  As I’ve mentioned before, I have a number of…uncultivated resources.  Wild berries, etc.  Current harvests include…fresh organic walnuts.  So I decided that brown sugar/walnut/maple cupcakes would be a really good idea.

Anyhow, I’ve been really like the texture of the cupcakes I’ve made that have nut meal in them, and I incorporated walnut meal into these.  When I ground them, it was fairly apparent they had more oil in them than the hazelnuts did, so I cut a little bit of the canola oil.

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