We all love cupcakes and for this recipe we bring you these amazing pumpkin spice cupcakes with the sweet addition of cream cheese frosting, don’t miss it for halloween!
Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cook: 20 mins
Additional: 10 mins
Servings: 24
Ingredients.
- 2 ½ cups white sugar
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 3 eggs
- 1 (15 ounce) can solid-pack pumpkin puree
- 2 ⅓ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 4 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preparation.
Step 1.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners.
Step 2.
Beat white sugar and 3/4 cup butter together in a bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy; add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat pumpkin into creamed butter mixture.
Step 3.
Mix flour, pumpkin pie spice, 1 tablespoon cinnamon, baking powder, and ginger together in a bowl; stir into creamed butter mixture, alternating with buttermilk, until batter is smooth. Fill each muffin cup 3/4-full with batter.
Step 4.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool in muffin tin for 10 minutes before transferring to the wire rack.
Step 5.
Beat cream cheese and 1/2 cup butter together in a bowl using an electric mixer until fluffy. Beat confectioners’ sugar, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, and vanilla extract into creamed butter until frosting is smooth. Spread frosting on each cupcake.
