Harvest Pumpkin Cupcakes

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Description

Rich and spicy pumpkin cupcakes with orange cream cheese frosting!

Ingredients

  • 4 eggs, slightly beaten
  • ¾ cup Mazola® Vegetable Plus! Oil
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin
  • 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
  • ¼ cup Argo® OR Kingsford’s® Corn Starch
  • 4 teaspoons Spice Islands® Pumpkin Pie Spice
  • 2 teaspoons Argo® Baking Powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
  • 3 tablespoons butter OR margarine, softened
  • 1 tablespoon orange juice
  • 2 teaspoons Spice Islands® 100% Pure Bourbon Vanilla Extract
  • 1 ½ teaspoons freshly grated orange peel
  • 4 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

  1. To make cupcakes: Blend the eggs
  2. oil
  3. sugar
  4. 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.
  5. To make frosting: Beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Add remaining ingredients and beat until smooth. Spread over cooled cupcakes.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 30 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins

Servings: 32

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