Pumpkin Cupcakes With Lush Cream Cheese Frosting
From dancingfox 13 years ago
- 40 to make
- Serves 36 cupcakes
This is one of my favorite fall recipes! The cupcakes are moist and full of spice, while the frosting is creamy and delicious, not overly sweet. Also fun to decorate for the season!
Ingredients
CUPCAKES
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree (NOT pumpkin pie mix. I use Libby's 100% pumpkin) shopping list
- 1 cup flour shopping list
- 1 egg (large) shopping list
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (ground) shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg (ground) shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon ginger (ground) shopping list
- 4 tablespoons butter, softened shopping list
- 2/3 cup granulated white sugar shopping list
- 1/3 cup milk shopping list
FROSTING
- 1 package cream cheese (8 ounces), cold shopping list
- 1/4 cup butter shopping list
- 1 cup confectioners sugar shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract shopping list
- orange sugar crystals (or any other seasonal baking decorations) shopping list
- nutmeg (for sprinkling on top) shopping list
- cinnamon ((for sprinkling on top) shopping list
How to make it
CUPCAKES
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger.
- In another bowl, beat together the butter , sugar, egg, and pumpkin puree.
- Slowly add dry ingredients to the pumpkin mixture.
- Add milk and stir well.
- Line cupcake pan with orange or yellow (for the seasonal Autumn effect) and fill each cup about 3/4 of the way with the mixture.
- Place cupcakes in oven for 15 to 20 minutes, testing with a toothpick after 15. No batter should stick to the toothpick when done.
- Allow cupcakes to cool in pan for about ten minutes before removing them to a cooling rack.
- Make sure they are completely cool before frosting.
FROSTING
- (I use a mixer for this part. I'm sure it can be done by hand, but it will take much longer since the cream cheese should be cold and firm.)
- Blend together cream cheese, vanilla and butter on medium speed for about two minutes or until frosting looks creamy and spreadable.
- Lower speed just slightly and SLOWLY add confectioners sugar. (If it dusts upward, playing a towel over your mixer will help.)
- Continue back to medium speed until all ingredients are well blended.
- Spread frosting over cooled cupcakes.
- Add a dash of nutmeg and cinnamon to the top of each cupcake. (Don't add *too* much. This is mostly just for show.)
- Add orange sprinkles or other decorations and enjoy!
The Rating
Reviewed by 2 people-
very nice I can't wait to make them they are kind of like my spiced apple cupcakes Thanks for sharing
RR
rescue_ranger
in New Baltimore loved it
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These were lovely, but the recipe only yielded 16 cupcakes in my first batch, 14 in the second -- and they weren't even overflowing from the linings! This also meant that I had double the frosting. hehe... But they were really yummy -- very autumnal,...more
anais97
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