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Pumpkin Cupcakes with Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting and Candied Pecans

Adapted from Yammie's Noshery
A moist spiced pumpkin cake topped with the most deliciously creamy browned butter frosting and crunchy, candied pecans. A Fall dessert in all its glory!
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
10 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Dessert
Servings 12 servings

Equipment

  • Muffin pan
  • Small saucepan

Ingredients
  

Pumpkin Cupcakes

  • 1 c. pumpkin puree
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 c. vegetable oil
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
  • 1 c. sugar
  • 1 c. all purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 3/4 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp. ginger
  • 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
  • 1/4 tsp. cloves

Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

  • 1 c. butter
  • 8 oz. cream cheese
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
  • 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • 2 c. powdered sugar

Candied Pecans

  • 2/3 c. pecans
  • 1 tbsp. butter
  • 1/4 c. brown sugar

Instructions
 

Pumpkin Cupcakes

  • Heat oven to 375ºF. Line muffin pan with cupcake liners; set aside until ready to use.
  • In a large bowl, combine pumpkin, eggs, oil, vanilla extract, sugar, and stir to thoroughly combine. Add the flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. Mix just until blended.
  • Evenly fill muffin tin with the batter. Bake 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted center comes out clean. Let cool completely on wire rack.

Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

  • Meanwhile, for the frosting, melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat until browned. Add cream cheese, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and powdered sugar, and mix until smooth. Chill frosting until cool and then beat until fluffy (should only take a couple of minutes). Frost cooled cupcakes as desired.

Candied Pecans

  • In a small saucepan, over medium heat, combine the pecans, sugar, and butter. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the sugar is melted. Cool on a piece of parchment paper. Sprinkle candied pecans on cupcakes.

Notes

  • Just in case you missed my note in the paragraphs, do not give up on the frosting!  It will look like a congealed blob on the stove, like it could never become any type of edible frosting.  But trust the process 😉
Keyword Cream Cheese, Dessert, Frosting, Homemade, Pecans, Pumpkin,, Recipe
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