Pumpkin Cupcakes with Browned Butter Maple Frosting
The recipe Pumpkin Cupcakes with Browned Butter Maple Frosting can be made in approximately 40 minutes. This recipe serves 16. One serving contains 269 calories, 3g of protein, and 7g of fat. For 34 cents per serving, this recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up vanillan extract, powdered sugar, baking soda, and a few other things to make it today. A few people really liked this American dish. 18 people have made this recipe and would make it again. It is brought to you by Lifes Ambrosia. It is a good option if you're following a lacto ovo vegetarian diet. Overall, this recipe earns a rather bad spoonacular score of 13%. Similar recipes include Mini Chocolate Chip Cookie Cupcakes with Browned Butter Pumpkin Spice Frosting – October #ImprovChallenge, Toffee Cupcakes with Browned Butter Frosting, and Red Velvet Cupcakes with Browned Butter Frosting.
Servings: 16
Preparation duration: 20 minutes
Cooking duration: 20 minutes
Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 large eggs
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon iodized salt
2 tablespoons maple syrup
2 - 4 tablespoons milk
2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 cup pureed pumpkin
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Equipment:
oven
stand mixer
bowl
frying pan
toothpicks
baking paper
wire rack
Cooking instruction summary:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a cupcake tin with non-stick spray. Combine flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder and pumpkin pie spice together in a bowl. In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attached, beat granulated sugar and butter together until fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time. Scraping down the sides of the pan after adding each egg. Slowly beat in the dry ingredients. Fold in the pumpkin puree. Fill in each cupcake mold 2/3 of the way full. Bake in preheated oven 15 -20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Remove cupcakes from oven. Allow to cool for several minutes in cupcake tin, then transfer to a parchment paper lined cooling rack. Cool completely. While cupcakes are cooling, heat butter over medium heat. As butter melts, it will foam slightly. Continue to cook until you notice little brown bits forming at the bottom of the pan. Stir the butter or shake the pan and continue cooking until the butter is a tan color and has a nutty aroma. Remove from heat and set it on a cool surface because it will continue to cook in the pan. Allow butter to cool completely.Once cooled, place butter in a bowl with 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar and use a mixer to cream together. Add in remaining Beat in vanilla extract. Beat in maple syrup. Beat in 2 tablespoons of milk. The frosting will be thick but spreadable. Add remaining milk if frosting is too thick. Frost cupcakes and serve.
Step by step:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a cupcake tin with non-stick spray.
2. Combine flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder and pumpkin pie spice together in a bowl. In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attached, beat granulated sugar and butter together until fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time. Scraping down the sides of the pan after adding each egg. Slowly beat in the dry ingredients. Fold in the pumpkin puree. Fill in each cupcake mold 2/3 of the way full.
3. Bake in preheated oven 15 -20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
4. Remove cupcakes from oven. Allow to cool for several minutes in cupcake tin, then transfer to a parchment paper lined cooling rack. Cool completely. While cupcakes are cooling, heat butter over medium heat. As butter melts, it will foam slightly. Continue to cook until you notice little brown bits forming at the bottom of the pan. Stir the butter or shake the pan and continue cooking until the butter is a tan color and has a nutty aroma.
5. Remove from heat and set it on a cool surface because it will continue to cook in the pan. Allow butter to cool completely.Once cooled, place butter in a bowl with 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar and use a mixer to cream together.
6. Add in remaining Beat in vanilla extract. Beat in maple syrup. Beat in 2 tablespoons of milk. The frosting will be thick but spreadable.
7. Add remaining milk if frosting is too thick. Frost cupcakes and serve.
Nutrition Information:
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