Pumpkin Ginger Cupcakes

Description

Delicious, light and fluffy! These taste of Fall, and the crystallized ginger gives then a lovely little zing. Even people who don’t like pumpkin love these cupcakes. These disappear as fast as I can set them out!

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 (3.4 ounce) package instant butterscotch pudding mix
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon ground ginger
  • ½ teaspoon ground allspice
  • ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
  • ⅓ cup finely chopped crystallized ginger
  • 1 cup butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 4 eggs, room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 24 muffin cups or line with paper liners.
  2. Whisk together flour
  3. pudding mix
  4. crystallized ginger
  5. cinnamon
  6. baking soda
  7. ground ginger
  8. allspice
  9. cloves
  10. and salt in a bowl; set aside.
  11. Beat butter
  12. white sugar
  13. and brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time
  14. mixing well after each addition; beat in pumpkin purée and vanilla with last egg. Stir in flour mixture
  15. mixing until just combined. Divide batter between the prepared muffin cups.
  16. Bake in the preheated oven until golden and the tops spring back when lightly pressed
  17. about 20 minutes. Cool muffins in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 20 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Servings: 24

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