Recipe: Delicious Cheat Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes

Cheat Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes. Homemade pumpkin cupcakes with a cinnamon-cream cheese frosting are delicious in the fall, or any other time of the year. After following the top rated reviews I decided to make some of my own personal modifications. Toasted and sugared nuts top cream cheese frosting on sweet and spicy pumpkin cupcakes.

Cheat Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes – Light and tender pumpkin cupcakes with a rich and sweet maple cream cheese frosting. Easy to make and full of delicious pumpkin flavor. This pumpkin cupcake recipe makes the perfect fall dessert! You can cook Cheat Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Cheat Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes

  1. You need 1 package of carrot cake mix (you could also use white or yellow mix).
  2. It’s 1 (15 oz.) of canned pumpkin.
  3. It’s of eggs.
  4. You need of oil.
  5. Prepare of sour cream OR mayonnaise.
  6. Prepare of pumpkin pie spice.

I love to bake all kinds of easy pumpkin recipes. A simple recipe for Incredibly moist and flavorful Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes topped with cream cheese frosting. After a quick scan of the fridge and pantry, I came up with a spice cake mix and some pumpkin puree. I decided to wing a recipe adapted from my favorite doctored up cake mix recipe.

Cheat Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes instructions

  1. Generally, follow the instructions on the cake mix package with the following modifications: 1. Substitute the water with 15 ounces of canned pumpkin. 2. Add 3 Tablespoons of sour cream or mayo to make them super moist and fluffy. (I prefer sour cream.) 3. Add 1/2 teaspoon of Pumpkin Pie Spice in addition to the spices already in the mix if you like it extra Pumpkin Pie Spice-y..
  2. Helpful hint: A traditional ice cream scoop with that swivel blade thingy makes it easy to measure out the batter evenly..
  3. For frosting, here's my Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting recipe (you can omit the coconut extract if you just want a simple cream cheese flavor): https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/2531254-coconut-cream-cheese-frosting.

Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes are the quintessential fall dessert everyone needs! My recipe makes this a simple but delicious treat you will love. These amazing Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes are so irresistibly fluffy and moist. The whipped cream cheese frosting is truly the icing on the cake. Pumpkin spice cupcakes hold a permanent spot on our fall baking bucket list, and with so many baking recipes we're making this season, we needed a ridiculously delicious and easy pumpkin cupcake recipe worthy of our fall cupcake escapades.