It's officially spooky season and to celebrate we're sharing our recipe for Pumpkin Spiced Cupcakes!
These cupcakes are packed full of pumpkin flavour and pair perfectly with a warm cuppa!
They're the perfect sweet treat to get you in the autumn mood. You could even bake a batch to give to trick or treaters.
Read ahead to discover how to make these scarily good cupcakes.
Info
Prep Time: 90 Mins
Cooking Time: 25 Mins
Serves: 12
Ingredients
For The Cupcakes:
- 200g Plain Flour
- 2 tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
- 2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
- ½ tsp Ground Nutmeg
- ½ Ground Ginger
- ¼ tsp Ground Cloves
- 220g Pureed Powder
- 200g Light Brown Sugar
- 120ml Sunflower Oil
- 2 Medium Eggs
- 12 Muffin Cases
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- Pinch of Salt
For The Frosting:
- 250g Cream Cheese
- 50g Unsalted Butter
- 250g Icing Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- ½ tsp Ground Cinnamon (For Decoration)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C / 160C (Fan) / Gas Mark 5 and line a muffin tray with twelve muffin cases.
- In a large bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves until evenly blended.
- In another mixing bowl, combine the pumpkin puree, brown sugar, and oil.
- Beat in the eggs (one at a time), until the mixture is smooth and slightly thickened.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the bowl with the dry ingredients and fold together gently until the batter is just combined.
- Divide the batter evenly among the prepared cupcake cases, making sure each is roughly two-thirds full.
- Bake in the pre-heated oven for 20-25 mins, or until you can insert a skewer and it comes out clean.
- Leave to cool for ten mins before transferring to a cooling rack. Let them cool completely before decorating with frosting.
- In a bowl, beat together the softened butter and cream cheese until smooth and creamy.
- Gradually sift in the icing sugar and add the vanilla extract, beating until the frosting is light and fluffy.
- Once the cupcakes have completely cooled, either pipe or spread the icing on top of each cupcake. Decorate with a sprinkle of cinnamon and enjoy!
