I love fall – the colors, the weather, the wardrobe change, you name it! I think pumpkins are gorgeous and I enjoy decorating with them but I don’t like the way they taste. My husband, however, does. And his love of pumpkin inspired these Pumpkin Cupcakes!
Pumpkin Cupcakes #Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 stick unsalted butter softened or melted
- 1 cup Dark Brown Imperial Sugar
- 1 cup Imperial Granulated Sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp all-spice
- 1 can 15 oz pumpkin puree
- 2 tsp Crystallized Ginger plus extra for frosting toppers - Optional
Instructions
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Mix together until smooth: brown & granulated sugars, butter, vanilla and eggs
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Add in and blend until smooth: flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground ginger and all-spice. Once smooth, blend pumpkin into the batter.
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Fold in crystallized ginger.
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Fill cupcake liners about half way, bake at 350* for 20-25 minutes.
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**Note: I frosted with store-bought cream cheese frosting & topped with crystallized ginger.
Because I couldn’t wouldn’t taste these cupcakes, I made them before a church function so I’d have plenty of taste-testers! All the adults enjoyed them and even my kids (who would typically turn up their noses at pumpkin) ate more than one!
What’s your favorite pumpkin dessert?
Yummy! My husband loves pumpkin anything. Maybe I will surprise him with these…
I can’t believe you wouldn’t eat the cupcakes! I love pumpkin cupcakes, well mostly anything pumpkin. I’ll have to give them a try.
looks awesome. just pinned it to my ‘all things pumpkin’ pinterest board lol
Oh goodness! These look fantastic! I will HAVE to try them! So ready for some fall!
Oh, you are sooo missing out by not tasting these. Yum!
They say you shouldn’t go grocery shopping when hungry… I’m beginning to think I should not read blogs while hungry.
These look and sound AMAZING.
Now I want cupcakes for dinner… it sure beats green beans.
Hey, they have pumpkin in them! 😀
Looks delicious! So ready for fall!
Whoa! That looks delish! My MIL and I love pumpkin – going to try that recipe.
Oh my. That looks melt in your mouth good.
ooooh the cupcake looks so moist and yummy!
My favorite is pumpkin pie, but I’m ready to try some other recipes, too. Those cupcakes look delicious!
Oh wow, yum! I love anything with pumpkin.
Sounds good, I love pumpkin desserts
I loveeeee pumpkin! Going to have to make these!
I love EVERYTHING pumpkin!
I am so ready for fall with this recipe, nice touch with the crystallized ginger.
I’ll be honest, until today I never met a pumpkin item I haven’t LOVED. I did today – pumpkin M&M’s. I was so sad when they turned out to not be as good as I thought they’d be. Those cupcakes look DIVINE!
These look delish!! Where can you find crystallized ginger?
I bought it at World Market (it’s cheaper there!), but you can find it on Amazon (affiliate link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0050P2CV0/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0050P2CV0&linkCode=as2&tag=sensiblysara-20).
I was drooling all over my keyboard when you posted the pics on Facebook. These are definitely on my menu for the week!
Those look completely delicious. I do love pumpkin and it looks really good with ginger. The only thing is in the fall when everything is pumpkin I get sick of it! 😀 But, those look completely irresistable.
Oh my goodness, I wan one of these. And the cream cheese frosting is perfect for pumpkin.
I would eat them all without sharing and I am not ashamed to say so.
I’m not a huge pumpkin fan, don’t like the taste! But, my whole family loves it, so I’ll definitely be making this!
Ooh yummy! I need to try these, I just discovered my love of all things pumpkin last year.
Ok I’m not sure we can continue to be friends. I LOVE anything pumpkin. Wait. This means more for me. Definitely still friends 🙂
hehe! Definitely more for you! 🙂 (I will eat the icing, though!)
I ♥ anything that has pumpkin flavor. I love, love, love it!
I love baking and cooking with pumpkin. I find that I tend to bake a ton of pumpkin desserts this time of year.
Yummy! I love pumpkin and cupcake anything .
Fall is my favorite season too!! I love the changing leaves, watching football, Halloween, decorations, Absolutely EVERYTHING! lol These cupcakes look delicious too.. i love the warm burnt orange color and the thick creamy frosting.. my mouth is watering just looking at them lol Thanks for the review… already bookmarked it so I can save the recipe to make soon.
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I never used to like pumpkin, but then a friend made this amazing pumpkin chocolate chip cake, and since then I’ve become a fan!
YUMMY!! I love everything pumpkin! These look fantastic!
I printed off this recipe. I’ll definitely be baking these soon. I have no idea where to find crystallized ginger though, lol. 🙂
I found it at World Market … but I THINK I saw it at my grocery store last week!
These sound great! I love pumpkin.
My favorite is probably good old fashioned pumpkin pie – but with the number of pumpkin cupcake recipes I have seen lately, I’m in a big mood to bake about 5 dozen!!
Sara! Thanks so much for this recipe. One of our favorite things about fall is all of the great flavors such as pumpkin! Going to make these as a fun surprise for the kids and the hubby too! Thanks!
Yummy! Pinning this for later, I love fall when everything is pumpkin!
Made them tonight for my son’s pumpkin-themed birthday party (he’s turning 7). Topped them with cinnamon cream cheese frosting. & a sour pumpkin candy . They turned out perfect!! Will definitely make them again!
AWESOME!! I’d love to see a photo of them if you want to share! Thank you for telling me!
Looks yummy! I love pumpkin pie
These look awesome, and my wife loves pumpkin things.
we love cupcakes and this looks really tasty!
These cupcakes look so delicious and I like pumpkin in recipes. I need to make these for Thanksgiving as one of my desserts.
Those look yummy!
I wish I would have seen this before thanksgiving. These would have been great for the afternoon before the big feast.