Chocolate Pumpkin Mini Cakes Recipes

MINI PUMPKIN CUPCAKES WITH CHOCOLATE FROSTING

Steps:

• Cupcakes: Put an oven rack in the center of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line 36 mini cupcake molds with paper liners. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, combine the pumpkin, cake mix, milk, oil, eggs, and pumpkin pie spice. Using an electric hand mixer, beat the mixture on low speed until smooth. Increase the speed to high and beat until light and fluffy, 2 minutes. Using a small ice cream scoop, fill the prepared molds with the batter. Bake until puffed and golden, about 10 to 12 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before frosting, about 20 minutes.
• Frosting: In a medium bowl, combine the powdered sugar, cream cheese, butter, cocoa powder, and sour cream. Using a hand mixer, beat on low speed until smooth. Increase the speed to high and beat until light and fluffy, about 1 minute.
• Using a small spatula, spread the frosting on top of the cupcakes. Decorate with mini-chocolate chips, sprinkles, colored sugar, and small candies.

MINI PUMPKIN POUND CAKES

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees, (second lowest position).
• Grease bottoms only of mini loaf pans.
• In a large bowl, beat together sugar, butter, oil; add eggs, until well combined (about 2-3 minutes).
• Combine/sift flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and salt.
• Add the dry mixture to egg mixture, with canned pumpkin; mix well.
• Pour/transfer into regular or fluted mini loaf pans, filling 3/4 full.
• Bake for about 25-30 minutes, or until cake test done with toothpick.

PUMPKIN CHOCOLATE CHIP MINI BUNDT® CAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease 2 mini fluted Bundt® pans with cooking spray.
• Combine sugar, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla extract in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until smooth. Add pumpkin puree; beat until well blended.
• Mix flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and ginger powder together in another bowl. Mix into pumpkin mixture. Fold chocolate chips into the batter.
• Pour batter into the prepared pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 30 minutes.

MINI PUMPKIN CAKES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Place mini paper baking cup in each of 48 mini muffin cups. Make cake batter as directed on box--except stir in orange peel and 6 to 8 drops each red and yellow food colors. Divide batter evenly among cups, about 1 heaping tablespoonful each. Bake 14 to 18 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 5 minutes; remove from pan and cool completely, about 10 minutes.
• In medium bowl, stir together frosting, 6 drops red food color and 8 drops yellow food color. Frost top of each cupcake. Using black gel, draw 2 triangles on each cupcake to look like pumpkin eyes, and draw a circle to look like a mouth.
• Cut fruit snack into 48 (1-inch) pieces; tightly roll each piece to make a stem for each pumpkin. Place stem at top of each pumpkin. Store loosely covered.

MINI CHOCOLATE-PUMPKIN 'PIE CAKES'

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400ºF.
• Place flour in large bowl. Cut in 4 oz. cream cheese and butter with pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture resembles coarse crumbs; shape into ball. Place on lightly floured surface; pat into 1-inch-thick rectangle. Cut into 24 equal pieces; press onto bottoms and up sides of 24 mini muffin pan cups.
• Mix pumpkin, sour cream, sugar, egg and 1 tsp. cinnamon until blended; spoon into crusts.
• Bake 20 to 25 min. or until centers are set. Cool 10 min. in pan. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.
• Heat oven to 350°F. Prepare cake batter as directed on package. Blend in 2 tsp. of the remaining cinnamon. Spoon about 1 Tbsp. cake batter into each of 24 medium muffin pan cups sprayed with cooking spray. Place 1 pumpkin pie in each cup. Cover with remaining cake batter.
• Bake 18 to 20 min. or until toothpick inserted in centers of cupcakes comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 min. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.
• Beat remaining cream cheese and marshmallow crème in large bowl with mixer until blended. Add COOL WHIP; beat on low speed just until blended. Frost cupcakes and sprinkle with remaining cinnamon.

MINI PUMPKIN CAKES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the first seven ingredients. Beat on low speed for 30 seconds; beat on medium for 2 minutes. Fold in walnuts. Spoon by 1/2 cupfuls into 12 greased miniature fluted tube pans. Bake at 350° until set, about 20-25 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., In a large bowl, beat the confectioners' sugar, water and maple flavoring until smooth; tint orange with red and yellow food coloring. Place wire racks with cakes over waxed paper. Spoon half of the glaze evenly over tops and sides of cakes, letting excess drip off. Let stand until glaze is set. Repeat with remaining glaze. , In a small bowl, beat confectioners' sugar and water until smooth; tint green. Cut a small hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic bag; insert a #4 round pastry tip. Fill bag with green frosting. Pipe vines on the pumpkins. For stem, insert a Tootsie Roll piece in the center of each pumpkin.