Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes Recipes

CHOCOLATE PUMPKIN CUPCAKES

Steps:

• cut the pumpkin into 1-inch x 1 inch /2.5 cm x 2.5 cm cubes. Place pumpkin cubes, sugar, and water in a saucepan and cook over medium heat for 35 minutes. Drain pumpkin cubes with a colander for 30 minutes. Keep the pumpkin syrup for later.
• Preheat oven to 175 F/80 C. Place pumpkin cubes on parchment paper and dry in the oven for 2 to 3 hours. Let cool and roll pumpkin cubes, a few at a time, in granulated sugar.
• cut the pumpkin into small cubes and cook with sugar and water over medium heat for 20 minutes until the pumpkin is soft. Drain the pumpkin with a colander and make the puree using a food processor. Set aside.
• Preheat oven to 335 F/170 C. To make the batter, sift flour, icing (powdered) sugar, cacao powder, salt, and baking powder and put aside. Beat softened butter with the dry ingredients using a stand mixer. Add eggs, egg whites, and mix. Gradually add warm milk, and mix to combine. Pour/spoon the batter into cupcake liners, filling up to 2/3. Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow the cupcakes to cool completely before decorating.
• , place softened butter, sugar, and 85 ml of pumpkin syrup (remained after making the sugared pumpkin) in a bowl and beat with an electric mixer till the mixture becomes creamy. Add cream cheese at room temperature and beat it till the cream becomes smooth and homogeneous.
• remove the center of cupcakes with a cupcake corer and fill each cupcake with pumpkin filling. Place pumpkin frosting in a pastry bag with the open star pastry tip (Wilton 1M) and pipe on top of cupcakes. Decorate each cupcake with a candied pumpkin cube.

CHOCOLATE-PUMPKIN CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line two 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners.
• Combine sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in the bowl of an electric mixer. Mix briefly until combined. Add pumpkin, milk, canola oil, and vanilla extract; mix on medium speed for 2 minutes. Add water and mix until just blended.
• Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each almost all the way to the top.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Let cool in trays for about 10 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

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.

CHOCOLATE PUMPKIN CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Line cupcake trays with paper liners (24), or the bottoms of 2 8 inch cake pans with parchment paper, lightly buttered.
• Sift flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt together and set aside.
• Stir the buttermilk, pumpkin and vanilla together in a small bowl and set aside.
• Beat the butter and sugars together using a stand mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the eggs and egg yolk, one at a time.
• Reduce mixer speed to low and alternately beat in the flour mixture and the buttermilk mixture in thirds.
• Pour the batter into the pans and bake until a toothpick can be inserted into the center and comes out clean. (about 22 minutes for cupcakes, about 35 minutes for a cake).
• Cool completely before icing with the Easy Buttercream Icing #425083.
• For the cake, after iced, you can cover with a chocolate glaze.
• To make the glaze, place the bittersweet chocolate, cold butter and corn syrup in a medium heatproof bowl.
• Bring heavy cream to a boil and pour it over the chocolate and let sit for 3 minutes.
• Gently stir using a whisk until smooth.
• Let sit until thickened, about 3 to 5 minutes.
• Pour the glaze onto the center of the iced cake, allowing it to drip over the edges.

CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES WITH PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE FILLING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a muffin tin with paper liners.
• Place cream cheese, 1/3 cup sugar, egg, pumpkin, yellow food coloring, red food coloring, and salt in a bowl. Beat using an electric mixer until thoroughly combined and no lumps remain. Stir in chocolate chips.
• Whisk flour, 1 cup sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and 1/2 teaspoon salt together in a large bowl. Mix in water, oil, vinegar, and vanilla extract until batter is well blended.
• Fill muffin cups 1/2-full with batter; top with 1 tablespoon of the cream cheese mixture. Sprinkle a few chocolate chips on top.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 25 minutes.

PUMPKIN CHIP CUPCAKES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the first 7 ingredients. Combine the eggs, pumpkin, oil, honey and water. Stir into dry ingredients just until combined; fold in walnuts and chocolate chips., Fill greased or foil-lined muffin cups three-fourths full. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., For frosting, in a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter and vanilla until fluffy. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar until smooth. Frost cupcakes.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE PUMPKIN CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 24 cupcake cups with paper liners.
• Sift the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt together; set aside. In a separate bowl, stir together the yogurt, pumpkin, vinegar, and vanilla extract, set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, and using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Alternately beat in the flour and pumpkin mixtures in thirds (for example, beat in 1/3 flour mixture followed by 1/3 pumpkin mixture and repeat until everything is combined). Fold in the mini chocolate chips.
• Working quickly, spoon batter into cupcake cups, filling each about 3/4 full. Place cupcake pans in the center of the preheated 350 degree oven and bake approximately 25 minutes. Cupcakes are done when they spring back when lightly touched or a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool pans on wire racks for 10 minutes then remove cupcakes from pans and let cool completely on the wire racks.