Love Cupcake

Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes

Yum! Pumpkin is delicious, I love it. I made these cupcakes for Thanksgiving dinner earlier this month and decided to add some little fondant pumpkins on top of the cupcakes. They turned out super cute and really easy to make too.

Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes

(adapted from

2 2/3 cups all purpose flour

3 tbsp espresso powder

2 tsp baking soda

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1/8 tsp ground nutmeg

1/8 tsp ground cloves

1 tsp salt

1 (15oz) can pumpkin puree

1 cup sugar

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup canola oil

4 large eggs

 

1. Preheat oven to 350F and line muffin pan with cupcake liners. In a medium bowl, combine flour, espresso powder, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and salt. Stir together and set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer, blend together the pumpkin, sugar, brown sugar and oil. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. With the mixer on low speed, add the flour mixture in two additions, mixing until just incorporated.

2. Fill the cupcake liners about 3/4 full. Bake for about 20 minutes or until cupcakes are golden brown and when inserted with a toothpick, comes out clean. Allow to cool completely before decorating with icing.

For the icing I used my favorite buttercream recipe, again piped with a star tip 1M. And my little fondant pumpkins are made with orange and green fondant. I used a mini pumpkin cookie cutter and a mini heart cookie cutter for the leaves. Some of my pumpkins were brushed with shimmer dust in silver, just to give it a little shine. Enjoy!

Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes

These cupcakes turned out so cute and delicious. And they look like real ice crem cones. They were so fun and easy to make. I made them for my nieces 2nd birthday and if I do say so myself everyone loved them!!

I used the Confetti Cupcakes recipe to bake inside the cones. I went out and bought two aluminum roaster pans at the dollar store and traced and cut out twelve circles on each pan. I punched out a circle, just used some cardstock scraps, using my 1 1/2 inch circle punch and used that as a template to trace the circles but, you could use something you have around the house, like a cup as a template. Then I took my husbands heavy duty x-acto knife to cut the circles. They're not perfect which is fine, they're just going to hold the cones.

Prepare the batter according to the recipe and pour into the cones to bake. You don't want to fill the cones all the way with batter you still need room for them to bake. Now when I was baking my cupcake cones they took a little longer to bake then the recipe so, keep an eye on them. Allow them to cool and make the frosting. I used my favorite buttercream recipe, you may want to double the recipe to have enough. I piped the frosting using a star tip 1M, to make the swirls of ice cream and an ice cream scoop to make the scoops. Then just added some rainbow and chocolate sprinkles.

I am lucky that my hubby made me a stand for all the cupcakes, kind of like I'm selling ice cream cones, eh? I covered the wood with some of my pretty scrapbook paper and colored duct tape. Looks cute and it was easy to carry to the party!!

All the flavours...

And I have to share one of the birthday girl!! Enjoy!!