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Pumpkin Cupcakes!!

Adorable and Yummy!

By Summer Seeger, Maplewood, MN Publisher October 26, 2011

These are awesome pumpkin cupcakes that are super easy to make!

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 (2 sticks) butter, melted and cooled

4 large eggs, lightly beaten

1 can (15oz) pumpkin puree

 

Directions:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees, line cupcake pan with cupcake liners. 
  • Mix in a medium sized bowl 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.

 

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 (1 stick) butter, softened
  • 1 package (8oz) cream cheese, softened
  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla
  • 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Mix 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 flavor, I would have leaves mean something, ex: 2 leaves is orange flavor, leaf on left is chocolate chip...)
  • 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 use a knife and make lines in the cupcake for a pumpkin affect.)
  • Enjoy!