This Pumpkin Pie Cupcake recipe has been floating around Pinterest for awhile now, and it actually comes from my favorite couponing site: The Krazy Coupon Lady!
These cupcakes are an exact cross between pumpkin bread and pumpkin pie. It is so cool!
It only uses one batter, but the outside bakes into a dense pumpkin bread texture, while the center stays soft and jiggly, just like pumpkin pie!
I topped these with a whipped cream, and actually used a really cool trick I found to "stabilize" the whipped cream so it lasts, like frosting, for a couple days without melting and deflating. You know, like the whipped cream topping you see on cakes in bakeries?? The trick calls for an ingredient that I don't actually love normally, gelatin, but it works so well for these, I'll allow it ;)
These are super easy to make, yet very impressive, which is perfect for around the holidays!
Ingredients:
1 15 oz can of pumpkin
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 cup evaporated milk
2/3 cup all purpose flour
2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
Recipe:
Adapted from: The Krazy Coupon Lady
Preheat the oven to 350, and grease a muffin tin with cooking spray.
Mix together the pumpkin, both sugars, eggs, vanilla extract
and milk in a medium bowl. Add in the
flour, pumpkin pie spice, salt, baking powder and baking soda, and stir until
combined.
Fill each muffin cup with 1/3 cup of the mixture. They will
be pretty full as these don’t rise much.
Bake for 20 min.
Then, let cool for 20 minutes. Remove cupcakes from pan and then chill in the
fridge for 30 minutes before frosting.
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See??! Isn't it cool how it is pumpkin pie in the middle?!! But then, has a more dense, sturdy shell to hold it all together? So neat!
For the Stabilized Whipped Cream:
Ingredients:
1/2 tsp unflavored gelatin powder
2 Tbsp cold water
1 cup heavy whipping cream
2 Tbsp powdered sugar
Recipe:
Adapted from: Food Pusher
Sprinkle gelatin over cold water in small bowl to soften.
Pour 2 Tbsp of the cream into a small pan and bring to a
simmer on the stove. Pour over gelatin,
stirring until dissolved.
Refrigerate for about 10-15min until it turns the consistency
of unbeaten egg white. Then, whisk until smooth. Set aside.
Whip remaining cream in a large bowl just until soft peaks form, then whip
in the powdered sugar, until mixed well.
Whip in the smoothed gelatin mixture now,
stopping to scrape bowl sides a couple times.
Continue to whip just until stiff peaks start to form.
Ta da!
Stabilized Whipped Cream.Scoop whipped cream into a piping bag (or just spoon on top instead) and pipe on top of chilled or room temperature cupcakes. Top with a light sprinkle of cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice.
My little trick: Put piping bag down into a tall drinking glass, and fold top of bag over the glass sides. This makes it much easier to scoop whipped cream (or frosting) into the piping bag!
