Mini pumpkin cupcakes

Serves:

Makes 24 mini cupcakes

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 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 olive oil 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. 

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This article was written by Susie Burrell for Philips Sonicare and Kidspot NZ.