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!
