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“As soon as the temperature dips and fall knocks on your door, get these cupcakes exploding with pumpkin spice flavour in the oven! Topped with a dreamy Cream Cheese Buttercream that complements the spice of the cupcake, baker beware: if you make these once, you’ll be asked to make them again and again.” From 2021 Shortlisted Cookbook, Jenna Rae Cakes and Sweet Treats by Ashley Nicole Kosowan and Jenna Rae Hutchinson
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PUMPKIN SPICE CUPCAKES
Ingredients
- 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup unsalted butter room temperature, cut into cubes
- 1 egg
- ½ cup whole 3.25% milk
- ½ cup canned pure pumpkin purée
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- 1 . Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line 2 cupcake pans with 16 cupcake liners.
- 2 . In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, and salt on low speed for 1 minute. Add the butter and mix for an additional 1 to 2 minutes, or until the mixture has the texture of wet sand. Do not overmix. Add the egg and mix until just combined.
- 3 . In a measuring cup, whisk together the milk, pumpkin purée, and vanilla. With the mixer on low speed, slowly pour in the milk mixture and mix until just combined. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and mix again for 10 to 15 seconds. The batter will look a little lumpy.
- 4 . Divide the batter evenly among the cupcake liners, filling each three-quarters full. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of a cupcake comes out clean. Let cool for 5 minutes in the pans before transferring the cupcakes to a wire rack to cool completely.
- For maximum freshness and deliciousness, serve cupcakes on the day they are made. If you want to bake the cupcakes a day in advance, store the baked, undecorated cupcakes in an airtight container at room temperature until ready to decorate and serve.
Excerpted from Jenna Rae Cakes and Sweet Treats by Ashley Nicole Kosowan and Jenna Rae Hutchinson. Copyright © 2020 Ashley Nicole Kosowan and Jenna Rae Hutchinson. Photography by Brittany Mahood. Published by Penguin Canada, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.
