These Spiced Pumpkin Cupcakes topped with tangy Cream Cheese Frosting are quickly becoming my favourite cupcake recipe.
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Spiced Pumpkin Cupcakes Recipe
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Spiced Pumpkin flavoured Cupcakes topped with tangy Cream Cheese Frosting
Author: Carina
Recipe type: Baking
Serves: 12
Ingredients
- 1½ Cups | 190g Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Baking Soda
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- ½ tsp Ginger
- ½ tsp Nutmeg
- ¼ tsp Ground Cloves
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1 Cup | 250g Pumpkin Puree
- 2 Eggs
- 1 Cup | 200g Brown Sugar
- ⅔ Cup | 170ml Oil
- ½ tsp Vanilla Essence
- ½ Cup | 1 Stick | 113g Butter
- 1 Cup | 225g | 8oz Cream Cheese
- 3 Cups | 375g Icing Sugar | Powdered Sugar
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl measure out and sift the flour, baking powder, bakings soda, spices and salt. Mix everything together with a wooden spoon until combined.
- In a smaller mixing bowl add the pumpkin, eggs, brown sugar, oil and vanilla. Mix these ingredients together with a whisk until well combined.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the bowl with the dry ingredients and fold the batter together with a wooden spoon until you can no longer see any dry flour.
- Line a 12 cup cupcake tin with paper liners and fill each ⅔ of the way full. Bake the cupcakes in a 180C|375F oven for 15 minutes or until the cupcakes spring back when lightly pressed. Cool completely before decorating.
- To make the cream cheese frosting add the butter to a stand mixer or large mixing bowl and beat on high speed for 3-4 minutes until the butter is pale and almost doubled in volume. Add the softened cream cheese and mix for a minute until combined. Add the sugar in thirds, waiting until it is incorporated until adding the next lot, scraping down the bowl in between each addition.
- Pipe your cupcakes using a piping bag and your favourite piping tip and optionally top the cupcakes with cinnamon sugar.
Notes
Place your cream cheese frosting in the fridge for 20 minutes before piping for a firmer and more pipe able consistency.
Cynthia E Melchor
Monday 15th of October 2018
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