Pumpkin Cupcakes with Pumpkin Spice Buttercream Frosting

Disclosure: This Pumpkin Cupcakes post has been sponsored by Dixie Crystals in conjunction with a social media campaign through Sunday Supper LLC. All opinions are my own.

Celebrate Halloween and the flavors of Fall with these moist and delicious homemade Pumpkin Cupcakes with Pumpkin Spice Buttercream Frosting.

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I shared this pumpkin cupcake recipe a couple of years ago and decided to share it again. These pumpkin cupcakes are so good I’ll be making them this weekend.

The Sunday Supper family loves to celebrate Halloween with recipes using Dixie Crystals sugar.

Dixie Crystals sugar brand has been a trusted southern staple since 1917. I’ve been using it forever.

Scroll down and visit the 24 other Sunday Supper food blogs who are sharing Halloween recipes featuring Dixie Crystals sugar.

Dixie Crystal’s time-tested recipes and vintage recipes

Dixie Crystal’s goal is to get families playing together in the kitchen cooking up recipes and spending time together.

Over on the Dixie Crystal website you can find 1000’s of time-tested recipes along with vintage recipes from vintage Dixie Crystal cookbooks to make with your family.

You probably know how dear to my heart vintage recipes are to me.

I’ve been updating old family recipes and recipes I find in vintage cookbooks I buy at thrift stores for as long as I’ve had this website.

It’s a passion of mine to reconnect families with favorite family recipes their grandmothers may have made.

The month of October is one of my favorite months. I love decorating for Fall with all the beautiful orange, brown and yellow colors.

It’s probably because I’m down here in Florida where I don’t get to see much when it comes to the colors of Fall.

My second favorite thing about October is all the delicious pumpkin recipes there are to make.

Pumpkin Recipes

One of my favorite fall dessert recipes is homemade Pumpkin Cupcakes.

Cupcakes are perfect to make any time but when you’re celebrating a holiday like Halloween cupcakes are perfect to serve for your Halloween party.

These moist Pumpkin Cupcakes with homemade Pumpkin Spice Butter Cream Frosting are going to become your favorite pumpkin cupcake recipe I promise!

The pumpkin cupcakes are moist and tender.

They taste so good you could even eat them without the Pumpkin Spice Butter Cream Frosting if you had to.

Perfect Pumpkin Spice Buttercream Frosting recipe

Everyone knows one of the best parts of a homemade cupcake is the frosting.

The easy Pumpkin Spice Buttercream Frosting that tops these delicious Halloween Pumpkin Cupcakes tastes perfect on these Halloween cupcakes.

You will be missing out on one of life’s simple pleasures if you skip it.

This homemade pumpkin spice buttercream frosting is very easy to make and we all know homemade buttercream frosting is the best cupcake frosting.

How to make Pumpkin Cupcakes with Pumpkin Spice Butter Cream Frosting

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground pumpkin pie spice
pinch salt
1/2 cup softened unsalted butter
1 cup Dixie Crystals granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup pumpkin puree (Instant Pot Pumpin Puree recipe)
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup warm water

Directions

Preheat the oven to 375 F. degrees and prepare a cupcake pan with cupcake liners.
Whisk the flour, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice and salt in a bowl and set aside.
Using a hand-held mixer or a stand mixer cream the butter and Dixie Crystals granulated sugar on medium for 3 minutes.
Next beat the egg and vanilla extract into the creamed Dixie Crystals granulated sugar and butter until completely incorporated.
Scrap the bowl and add the pumpkin puree and beat 2 minutes.
Combine the buttermilk and warm water.
Alternately add half the liquid and half the flour mixture to the bowl while beating on low.
Once all the ingredients have been added to the bowl beat on medium for 2 minutes.
Evenly divide the batter between 20-24 cupcake wells filled about 3/4th full.
Bake for 18 minutes turning the pan halfway through the baking time.
Remove the pan from the oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes.
Remove the cupcakes from the pan to cool completely on a wire rack.
Makes 20-24 cupcakes.

How to make Pumpkin Spice Butter Cream Frosting

Ingredients

1 stick of unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
2 1/4 cup Dixie Crystals 10 X powdered sugar + extra 1/4 cup if needed
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground pumpkin pie spice
1/2 cup Pumpkin puree (Instant Pot Pumpkin Puree recipe)

Directions

In a bowl with a hand mixer or in a stand mixer beat the butter until creamy.
Add one cup of the Dixie Crystals 10 X powdered sugar and the vanilla to the bowl and beat on low until combined well.
Add the remaining 1 1/4 cups Dixie Crystals 10 X powdered sugar and the pumpkin pie spice to the bowl and beat until combined.
Frosting will be very stiff at this point.
Add the pumpkin puree to the bowl and beat until the pumpkin is mixed well into the frosting.
Turn the mixer on high and beat for 2 minutes, scraping the bowl occasionally.
Adjust the frosting consistency by adding the extra 1/4 cup of Dixie Crystals 10 X powdered sugar if desired.
Frost the cooled Pumpkin Cupcakes with the frosting using a pastry bag and tip if desired.
Decorate the Pumpkin Cupcakes with sprinkles and a pumpkin shaped piece of candy if desired.
Refrigerate cupcakes in a single layer in an air tight container until serving.
Make 20-24 cupcakes.