Halloween Pumpkin Cupcakes

🎃 Looking for a fun Halloween treat to make with the kids? These adorable Pumpkin Mini Cupcakes are the perfect little baking project for families.

Made with pumpkin puree, crunchy peanut butter and warming spices, these bite-sized cupcakes are full of cosy flavour and finished with creamy orange icing and a little pretzel stalk to create their cute pumpkin look.

They’re simple enough for little hands to help with and make a fun addition to a Halloween party, school celebration or afternoon of baking together. Best of all, the kids can get creative decorating their own mini pumpkin patch!

So, gather the ingredients, get the little bakers involved and let’s make some deliciously cute Halloween treats. 🎃🧁

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By Susie Burrell

Time: 50 minutes | Serves: 24 Mini Cupcakes

Ingredients

1/3 cup Mayver’s Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter

1/3 cup maple syrup

2 eggs

1 cup pumpkin puree

¼ cup milk

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp cinnamon

½ tsp ground ginger

¼ tsp nutmeg

¼ tsp allspice

Salt

2 cups wholemeal plain flour

Icing

60g light creamed cheese

20g butter, softened

Orange food colouring

12 Pretzel twigs

Method

Preheat the oven to 170 degrees C. Grease a 24 mini muffin tray with butter.
In a medium bowl, beat together the Mayver’s Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter and maple syrup with a whisk, then beat in the eggs. Mix in the pumpkin puree, milk, baking soda, vanilla extract, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice and a pinch of salt.
Add the flour and stir through until just mixed, don’t over mix.
Distribute the mixture between 24 mini muffin holes. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the top is golden and when a bamboo skewer inserted into a cupcake comes out clean.
Remove the cupcakes to a wire rack and cool completely.
To make the icing, beat together creamed cheese, butter. Add a few drops of food colour and mix, continue to add drops of colour and mixing until you have a pumpkin orange colour.
Smear a heaped tablespoon of icing onto cooled cupcake with a butter knife and smooth out. Use the back edge of the knife to create 6 grooves from the middle of the cupcake to make the pumpkin look. Stick a pretzel twig into the middle of each cupcake to make the stalk of the pumpkin.