Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes are your new go to easy dessert! Whip up a batch for Thanksgiving week!
Last month Jonathan turned 2 1/2! It was just before Halloween and he insisted that he wanted cupcakes with pumpkin and spider webs. I delivered. But before I put spider webs on his cupcakes I made sure to take pictures because these Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes are GORGEOUS! And SO delicious! They are super quick to put together—they’re based off my One Bowl Chocolate Chip Cake, and come together in about 30 minutes!
I love cupcakes because they’ve got portion control built right in (yes, this is a major struggle—please tell me I’m not the only one!). They are super moist—thank you pumpkin—and studded with chocolate. Yes please!
Instead of a fancy and time consuming frosting I just melt chocolate chips and dip the cupcakes! It takes just a few seconds, they look so pretty, and it couldn’t be easier. Are you sensing a theme here?
Go ahead and make these Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes this week—channel your festive fall spirit before we head on in to the Christmas season! When you do, be sure to snap a picture and post to social media. Be sure to tag me! {#frieddandelions // @frieddandelions}
Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes with Chocolate Chips
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ginger
- 3/4 cup non dairy milk
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 3/4 cup mini chocolate chips
Frosting
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon coconut oil
Instructions
For the Cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a 12-muffin pan with cupcake liners.
- Whisk all the dry ingredients together in a small bowl.
- In a second small bowl or spouted measuring cup, combine the milk, oil and pumpkin puree, vanilla and mix.
- Add the wet to the dry and stir till combined, whisking well. Batter will be thick.
- Add chocolate chips and mix to incorporate.
- Pour into lined muffin tray.
- Bake for 18 minutes or until a tester comes out clean. Allow to cool before frosting.
For the Frosting:
- Melt chocolate chips and oil in the microwave in 30 second increments, stirring in between.
- Dip the cupcakes into the chocolate one at time. Allow to cool (you can set them in the freezer to firm up the chocolate).
- Enjoy!
That thick chocolate frosting…..It looks so good. You really can’t beat chocolate and pumpkin together!
These sound phenomenal! I can’t wait to make them.
Thanks Ginny! They’re so simple to make and always turn out gorgeous!
I prefer cupcakes too! It seems like I’m only have a little bite instead of a big slice of cake. These look delicious! And I love your trick of just dipping them in melted chocolate – genius!
I just think they are SO much easier to serve! No need for fancy cake servers, no germs as people manhandle the dish (big germaphobe here!)—it’s just easier! And the chocolate dipped top could not be more simple! It’s the easiest way to make them look fancy—I’m terrible at frosting!
These look so good! Great idea to take pictures before the spiderwebs because people could eat these throughout the fall!
Happy belated 2.5 Jonathan!
Ha, yeah, spider webs aren’t really my thing! His original request was garlic spider webs, as we’d used garlic sauce to make spider webs on his black bean soup the week before. Now that’s a fancy flavor combination!
Yum! These cupcakes look delicious – and your photos are gorgeous!
Thank you! I’ve been trying to improve my photos and picking up tips here and there!
This is a great alternative to pumpkin pie for the holidays!
I think they’d be really fun for the kids at Thanksgiving! Not that my kids have ever met a dessert that they didn’t like, but I think cupcakes are a more universal kid food!
I would love to try these cupcakes. I like that it calls for only 1/4 cup sugar. I never have chocolate chips in my pantry. Can I substitute cocoa powder, and how much should it be. I also do not like icing, so would be skipping this step.
Thanks
Hi Fareeda! You can skip the chocolate chips if you don’t like them. Don’t use cocoa powder, as the chips are simply mixed in the batter, not melted. The cocoa powder would affect the results.