Rich and spicy pumpkin cupcakes with orange cream cheese frosting!
Ingredients
- eggs, slightly: 4 piece (beaten)
- Mazola® Vegetable Plus! Oil: 0.75 cup
- sugar: 2 cups
- pumpkin: 1 can (15 ounce can)
- ¾ cups all-purpose flour: 1 piece
- Argo® OR Kingsford's® Corn Starch: 0.25 cup
- Spice Islands® Pumpkin Pie Spice: 4 tsp
- Argo® Baking Powder: 2 tsp
- baking soda: 1 tsp
- salt: 0.75 tsp
- cream cheese: 1 pack (8 ounce pack, softened)
- butter or margarine: 3 Tbsp (softened)
- orange juice: 1 Tbsp
- Spice Islands® 100% Pure Bourbon Vanilla Extract: 2 tsp
- ½ teaspoons freshly grated orange peel: 1 piece
- powdered sugar: 4 cups
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Stages of cooking
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To make cupcakes: Blend the eggs, oil, sugar, and pumpkin in a large mixing bowl; set aside. Stir together dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture and beat until well blended. POUR into lined muffin tins. Fill about 2/3 full. Bake in preheated 350 degrees oven for 30 minutes or until center springs back when touched. Cool 30 minutes. Spread with frosting.
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To make frosting: Beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Add remaining ingredients and beat until smooth. Spread over cooled cupcakes.
