Awesome Pumpkin Cupcakes

These are awesome pumpkin cupcakes that are super easy to make!

Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon coarse salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, melted and cooled
• 4 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 can (15oz) pumpkin puree

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees, line cupcake pan with cupcake liners. 
• Mix in a medium sized bowl flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and allspice.  Whisk together and set aside.
• In a separate bowl whisk together brown sugar, butter and eggs.  Add dry ingredients, whisk until smooth.  Then mix in pumpkin puree until smooth. 
• Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full of batter
• Bake for 20 min or until toothpick comes out clean.

Add Ins  (all of these were a big hit with everyone that tried them) I had smaller bowls and filled them with about 1 cup batter (makes about 4 cupcakes) and added to taste.

• Orange Zest
• White Chocolate Chips
• Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
• Purple Food Coloring (I alternated the regular batter with the purple batter, this will be fun with kids!)

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
• 1 package (8oz) cream cheese, softened
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla
• 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• Mix with an electric mixer.  

• Pull out a small amount (about 1 cup) of frosting and use green food coloring. For the pumpkin leaf (if you do different flavor, I would have leaves mean something, ex: 2 leaves is orange flavor, leaf on left is chocolate chip...)
• Color the rest of the frosting orange (3 drops yellow, 2 drops red). 
• Use caramel square and cut for pumpkin stem
• I used a frosting bag with a med size hole at tip and used a zigzag motion across the cupcake. (if you don't have a frosting bag use a knife and make lines in the cupcake for a pumpkin affect.)