Mini Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes

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  • Time icon
    Total Time
    1hr 15mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    8
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    629
based on 2 ratings

Lightly-spiced pumpkin mini cupcakes topped with a sweet honey cream cheese frosting. You can also use this recipe to make one large loaf for slicing.

recipe updated Feb 22, 2022

Ingredients

  • All purpose flour icon
    All purpose flour
    350 g
  • Baking soda icon
    Baking soda
    12 g
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    ½ teaspoon
  • Ground cinnamon icon
    Ground cinnamon
    1 ½ teaspoons
  • Ground ginger icon
    Ground ginger
    ¾ teaspoon
  • Nutmeg icon
    Nutmeg
    ½ teaspoon
  • Allspice icon
    Allspice
    ¼ teaspoon
  • Cloves icon
    Cloves
    ¼ teaspoon
  • Unsalted butter icon
    Unsalted butter
    225 g
  • Granulated sugar icon
    Granulated sugar
    300 g
  • Pumpkin purée icon
    Pumpkin purée
    425 g
  • Cream cheese icon
    Cream cheese
    225 g
  • Honey icon
    Honey
    80 g
  • Egg icon
    Egg
    2

Tools

  • kCook icon Stand mixer
  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Whisk
  • kCook icon Mini muffin pan - 24-hole
  • kCook icon Stand mixer bowl
  • kCook icon Medium bowl
  • kCook icon Small bowl
  • kCook icon Stand mixer bowl

Step preview

  1. Pre-heat oven - 174°C
  2. Prepare a clean mini muffin pan
  3. Add all purpose flour, baking soda, salt, ground cinnamon, ground ginger, nutmeg, allspice and cloves to a clean medium bowl
  4. Whisk briefly until blended
  5. Add unsalted butter and granulated sugar to a clean stand mixer bowl
  6. Cream together until smooth
  7. Transfer eggs to sugar-butter mixture and mix until combined
  8. Add pumpkin purée to the mixture and mix until combined
  9. Add dry ingredients to batter
  10. Mix batter until well combined
  11. Spoon batter into mini muffin pan
  12. Bake until skewer tests clean - 10 min, 174°C
  13. Let cool
  14. Add unsalted butter, cream cheese and honey to the stand mixer bowl
  15. Mix until creamy
  16. Frost cooled cupcakes using a piping bag or spread frosting with a spatula
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