Are you looking for some cute fall cupcakes? These are awesome pumpkin cupcakes that are super easy to make! Perfect as a fun treat for your kids, class parties or family gatherings during the fall season. Think Halloween and Thanksgiving for these festive cupcakes.
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Pumpkin Cupcakes
Ingredients:
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 cup or 2 sticks of butter, melted and cooled
- 4 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 - 15oz can pumpkin puree
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees, line cupcake pan with cupcake liners.
- In a medium sized bowl, mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and allspice. Whisk together and set aside.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together brown sugar, butter and eggs.
- Add dry ingredients, whisk until smooth.
- Then mix in pumpkin puree until smooth.
- Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full of batter
- Bake for 20 min or until toothpick comes out clean.
Optional add ins:
All of these were a big hit with everyone that tried them. I had smaller bowls and filled them with about 1 cup batter - makes about 4 cupcakes, and added to taste.
- Orange Zest
- White Chocolate Chips
- Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
- Purple Food Coloring - I alternated the regular batter with the purple batter, this will be fun with kids!)
Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 1/2 cup or 1 stick of butter, softened
- 1 - 8oz package cream cheese, softened
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla
- 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
Make the frosting: Mix the above with an electric mixer
Putting it all together:
- Pull out a small amount - about 1 cup of frosting and use green food coloring. for the pumpkin leaf - if you do different flavors, try having the leaves mean something, ex: 2 leaves is orange flavor, leaf on left is chocolate chip . . . etc.
- Color the rest of the frosting orange - 3 drops yellow, 2 drops red.
- Use caramel square and cut for pumpkin stem
- I used a frosting bag with a med size hole at tip and used a zigzag motion across the cupcake. If you don't have a frosting bag you can use a plastic food bag or use a knife and make lines in the cupcake for a pumpkin affect.
ENJOY!
