Pumpkin Cupcakes with Pumpkin Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting
recipe from Skinnytaste
Friends, these cupcakes will change your life. I promise. I am a known lover of all things pumpkin and cream cheese. Combine the two and its just over for me.
Pardon the poor frosting job, I thought it was a good time to practice my piping skills. This is a very simple recipe that is full of flavor. I think I ate four..ok, maybe five of them over the weekend. I brought the rest to work and got great reviews. Best of all, the recipe came from Gina at Skinnytaste. She has a wonderful gift of creating lighter versions of the foods we love, without loosing any flavor.
I filled my cupcake pans up a little less than what the recipe indicates, and got 26 cupcakes. I also doubled my frosting ingredients so I had enough frosting for them all. The measurements below are for 24 cupcakes and 1 batch of frosting. I have to add that they cupcakes are great without frosting. They are incredibly moist and have all the yummy flavors of fall. Gina estimated the cupcakes alone (just 1 cupcake, no frosting) have 84.2 calories. With frosting? ONLY 121.1 calories. Yes, you read right.
Ingredients:
- 18.25 oz Betty Crocker Golden Vanilla Super Moist Cake Mix
- 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1 cup canned 100% pure pumpkin
- 1 cup water
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Combine cake mix and pumpkin spice in a large bowl.
Add pumpkin puree and water, mix about 2 minutes.
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Fill cupcake liners 2/3 full and bake for about 20 - 25 minutes. My oven is weird in that it always takes the longest of the suggested range.
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| You can watch them bake if you like... |
If you aren't sure if they are ready to come out, insert a toothpick into the middle of one. If it comes out clean, take them out!
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Pumpkin Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 8 oz Philadelphia 1/3 fat cream cheese
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 5 tbsp packed brown sugar
9 comments:
I love these..here from some link up, can't remember which but these are fantastic!
Thank you so much for stopping by!
These sound delicious! I love anything pumpkin. It's probably my favorite part of fall. And cream cheese icing just happens to be my favorite. ;) Pinned this!
Thank you! I know, the combo of the two are seriously amazing. I appreciate the pin! I hope you come back!
These look delish! I can't wait to try them. Thanks for the recipe.
Thank for stopping by! Let me know how they turn out!
Why do you do this to me?! I have to make these!
Seriously, do it! Come back and let me know how they are!
Delicious!! I can't get enough of the cupcakes. Unfortunately I must have done something wrong because my frosting came out too thin. I had to add some powdered sugar to thicken it up, but then it was too sweet, lol! So I improvised and used vanilla frosting for the pumpkin cupcakes and made a white cake and used the pumpkin frosting for that. It was still amazing, and I'll try again!! Still loved every bit of it!!!
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