2 Ingredient Pumpkin Cupcakes
I love baking. A night spent in the kitchen, particularly with friends, is a night well spent.
Monday night, I went over to Conor’s house, to bake a bunch of goodies for a bake sale at work, to benefit the Richmond Food Bank. Baking for a cause? Heck yes.
Since we were trying to make tons of goodies, I kept my recipes super simple. First, I whipped up a batch of vegan chocolate pumpkin cupcakes, with some pumpkin spice frosting.
Wait, you know the pumpkin trick, right?
Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes
- 1 16 oz can pumpkin puree
- 1 box devils food cake mix
Mix the two together, and drop 1/4 cup batter into cupcake liners, and bake at 350 for about 15 minutes. For reals. That’s a thing.
Then I made some frosting, and sadly, I can’t share the recipe, because I kind of just made it up as I went. It was lots of powdered sugar, some canned pumpkin, a little vegan margarine, and a lot of pumpkin spice. Blended to perfection. Basically. But you could always just add a few tablespoons of pumpkin, and some pumpkin spice to a can of vanilla frosting. Don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone. Or you could use this coconut frosting. Why not, right?
After that, I whipped up some gluten-free peanut butter cookies, because they’re so easy.
We might have made a bit of a mess. It happens. And it’s so worth it. Now I need to go pick a recipe to make for Thanksgiving!
I’ve tried pumpkin with spice cake, but never with a CHOCOLATE CAKE MIX!!!!! Oh my gosh, I bet that’s INCREDIBLE! I have a lot of chocolate cake mixes downstairs, so once I get some more pumpkin puree (I used it all for pumpkin milkshakes, pies, chocolate protein cakes, etc.) I will be trying this out! 😀
Yum! The pumpkin trick works with brownie mix, too.
I’m on pie duty so last night it was pumpkin and apple.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Well dang, I don’t think this recipe could get much easier 🙂 I just baked a pumpkin pie actually.
Happy Thanksgiving!
I’ve heard of that trick but haven’t tried it yet. Definitely going to have to give it a shot though, because I’m all about easy and delicious 😀
Baking really is so fun! And those GF peanut goodies sound great!:)
I made a batch of these cupcakes for Halloween and they were a total hit!! The frosting sounds great!
Baking with friends is the perfect night in. I loved doing that at uni. It always meant eating a bit too much sugar and then staying up too late hehe. But what’s wrong with that?? Those cupcakes look tasty! Pumpkin is such a good ingredient.
I love that trick 🙂 I baked some pumpkin biscottis, which I may need to make more because I am eating them like crazy. Oops 😉
Yum!! I’ve never made biscotti!!!
Those look so yummy! Might need to test those out soon.
This is seriously the best trick ever! I love it. I’ve never done it with devil’s food cake before, but why the heck not? It looks light too, which makes it a great alternative to really heavy holiday desserts! Enjoy your Thanksgiving, Liz!