Endeavors in cupcake frosting can get dicey. With a simple frosting spatula, you can get the minimum job done and I think have no bumps in the road. I felt the time had arrived in this young cook’s life to inve$t in a piping set. I bought all the necessary parts. Only to get home and realize: I had not bought all the necessary parts. It’s a bit confusing figuring out what you need with metal tips, coupler rings, and so on. I did have the plastic decorating bags, so I sliced a hole in one of those and went onward. (Nothing more than a glorified ziploc.)
Final icing job was passable, but my quest continues. And although the decorating was passable, the cupcakes & frosting are 10/10 DELICIOUS. These were made at a baby shower and I HAD to hunt down who made them and force them to give me all their secrets.
PUMPKIN CUPCAKES
Serves 12 cupcakes
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup pumpkin puree
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1/2 batch cream cheese frosting (seriously, use this cream cheese frosting and no other one. ever.)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stir together flour, nutmeg, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt. In a separate bowl combine pumpkin, sugar, brown sugar, vegetable oil, and eggs. Slowly incorporate dry and wet ingredients together. Divide batter into a lined muffin pan. Bake for 15-18 minutes.
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Stir together flour, nutmeg, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt.
- In a separate bowl combine pumpkin, sugar, brown sugar, vegetable oil, and eggs.
- Slowly incorporate dry and wet ingredients together.
- Divide batter into a lined muffin pan.
- Bake for 15-18 minutes.
- Allow cupcakes to cool completely before frosting.
Adapted from …Delicious.