All the delicious taste of fall in one cupcake!
Fall is here and with fall comes all things pumpkin spice! These pumpkin spice cupcakes are filled with all the delicious spices you use when making a pumpkin pie.
The same spices are used in the buttercream frosting too!
There isn’t any pumpkin in these cupcakes, just all the lovely spices that you traditionally use in pumpkin pie.
For these cupcakes and the frosting, I’ve added cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves. You could also use a premixed pumpkin pie spice if that’s what you had on hand.
The cupcakes and buttercream area a perfect match made in heaven. But if you wanted something a bit different, you could always use my regular buttercream recipe without any of the pumpkin spice. It’s always good to have a few options!
If you love cupcakes, here are a few cupcake recipes:
Fall spices in a delicious cupcake
- 1 1/4 cup flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- pinch ground cloves
- pinch ground nutmeg
- 1-2 Tablespoons milk
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In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, spices, baking powder and salt. Mix together.
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In a different bowl, combine oil, milk, vanilla and eggs.
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Add wet ingredients into dry ingredients. Stir until incorporated.
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Divide batter into 12 muffin tins lined with paper liners.
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Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 15 minutes.
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Cool on a baking rack.
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In a large mixing bowl, beat butter until smooth. Add spices and beat.
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Add powdered sugar and vanilla and beat on low speed.
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Add milk one tablespoon at a time until desired consistency is reached.
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Frost cupcakes and serve
A pinch is about 1/16 of a teaspoon.
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4 Comments
Mary Ann | The Beach House Kitchen
September 27, 2018 at 4:03 pmYou’re speaking my love language Kathy! These sound and look delicious! I’ll be adding them to my baking list!
David @ Spiced
September 25, 2018 at 6:08 amI absolutely love baking with pumpkin spice spices! The warming smalls of cinnamon and nutmeg just scream Autumn to me. 🙂 These cupcakes look amazing, and I know I would happily polish them off if they happened to show up in my kitchen. Speaking of that, maybe I need to make a batch of these…I know my belly would be happy about that! Haha!
Stacey @ The Sugar Coated Cottage
September 24, 2018 at 10:58 amYes please! I’m ready for pumpkin. I love that you spiced the buttercream what a nice added touch! Take care.
Dawn -Girl Heart Food
September 24, 2018 at 6:26 amYay for all things pumpkin!! Love that frosting on top and totally wish I could grab a couple from my screen right now! What a way to start Monday 😉