I spent all day in the kitchen Saturday baking and cooking. I whisked, patted, frosted, chopped, and baked my little heart out until finally at 8 o’clock at night I sat down to enjoy the fruits of my labor.
One of my creations was this pumpkin cake. I made twelve cupcakes and 3 mini-loaves smothered with a rich cinnamon buttercream frosting. We eat with our eyes first, right? That’s why I was not entirely happy with the way my frosting turned out. I filled a pastry bag without realizing it had a huge hole in the seam causing all my frosting to squirt out in a giant blob. The only mishap of my long day. In the end it didn’t matter.
The pumpkin cake was scrumptious, dense, moist and sweetly spiced. Just the way a pumpkin cake was meant to be.
Dense, moist and sweetly spiced pumpkin cupcakes with a cinnamon buttercream frosting.
Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour two 9-inch cake pans or 24 muffin cups, or line muffin pan with paper liners.
- Whisk together first 7 ingredients in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- In a large bowl with electric mixer beat pumpkin, sugars, oil and vanilla. Add eggs one at a time, beating to incorporate between additions. Add sour cream and flour mixture beat on low speed just to blend.
- Divide batter between pans or fill paper cupcake cups 2/3 full.
- Bake cake for 33 minutes or until tester comes out clean. Cupcakes bake 22-24 minutes or until tester comes out clean. Cool cake in pans for ten minutes, then invert onto rack and cool completely before frosting.
- Place the butter in large mixing bowl. Blend with an electric mixer on low speed until fluffy, 30 seconds. Add the confectioners’ sugar, 3 tablespoons of the milk, and cinnamon. Blend with the mixer on low speed until the sugar is incorporated, 1 minute. Increase the speed to medium and beat until light and fluffy, 2 minute more. Blend in up to 1 tablespoon milk if the frosting seems too stiff.
Thank you so much for posting this recipe. My cupcakes came out delicious!!
these look delish… and you’re in Wappinger’s Falls? I spent a part of my childhood there… in an apartment complex called White Gate Drive. I don’t know if its still there.
I had to push my mouth closed when I first saw this. I am really going to have to try this. I’ve been on the lookout for good frosting/icing (is there really a difference, or is it just semantics?) lately. I’ve tried making two different buttercream recipes and both were a little to close to just shoving a stick of butter in my mouth. This sounds much lighter, so I have to add it to the list whenever I get around to doing the frosting experiment I’ve been meaning to try. Thanks for the recipe!
I had to push my mouth closed when I first saw this. I am really going to have to try this. I've been on the lookout for good frosting/icing (is there really a difference, or is it just semantics?) lately. I've tried making two different buttercream recipes and both were a little to close to just shoving a stick of butter in my mouth. This sounds much lighter, so I have to add it to the list whenever I get around to doing the frosting experiment I've been meaning to try. Thanks for the recipe!
I made this over the weekend and boy, were they very good! It turned out moist and the frosting is perfect. Thanks for sharing this recipe.