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Pumpkin Cupcakes with Pumpkin Cream Cheese Frosting

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Pumpkin Cupcakes with Pumpkin Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting are perfect for Halloween parties, Thanksgiving or anytime you want a light pumpkin treat.

Skinny pumpkin cupcakes, perfect for Halloween parties, Thanksgiving or anytime you want a low fat pumpkin treat.Pumpkin Cupcakes

More festive pumpkin desserts I love are Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins, Chocolate Spooky Spider Halloween Cupcakes, and Pumpkin Pie.

This recipe couldn’t be any easier. I used a box of Golden Vanilla cake mix, some canned pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice and water. There is no oil, butter or eggs at all and the results were amazing!

These cupcakes are delicious naked, without frosting, but I thought creating a pumpkin spiced cream cheese frosting would be the perfect topping. If you want to get fancy and pipe it on like I did in the photos, you may have to make a little extra frosting, maybe 1 1/2 batches. But if you are making them for yourself and using spatula to smear some on, the amount listed here will be enough.

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Pumpkin Cupcakes with Pumpkin Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting

4.30 from 10 votes
7
Cals:121
Protein:1.5
Carbs:23
Fat:3
Skinny pumpkin cupcakes, perfect for Halloween parties, Thanksgiving or anytime you want a low fat pumpkin treat.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Skinny pumpkin cupcakes, perfect for Halloween parties, Thanksgiving or anytime you want a low fat pumpkin treat.
Prep: 20 minutes
Cook: 20 minutes
Cool Time: 15 minutes
Total: 55 minutes
Serving Size: 1 cupcake

Ingredients

  • 18.25 oz Betty Crocker Golden Vanilla Super Moist Cake Mix*
  • 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 cup canned 100% pure pumpkin
  • 1 cup water

For the Pumpkin Cream Cheese Frosting:

  • 8 oz Philadelphia 1/3 fat cream cheese, do not use fat free
  • 1/2 cup pureed pumpkin, canned is fine
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
  • 5 tbsp packed brown sugar

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°. Line a cupcake tin with cupcake wrappers.
  • Combine cake mix and pumpkin spice in a large bowl.
  • Add pumpkin puree and water, mix about 2 minutes.
  • Fill cupcake liners 2/3 full and bake about 20 - 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
  • Meanwhile for the frosting, combine the cream cheese, pumpkin, vanilla, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and brown sugar until smooth.
  • Once the cupcakes cool, use a spatula to ice the cupcakes or pipe them which may might require making more frosting.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1 cupcake, Calories: 121 kcal, Carbohydrates: 23 g, Protein: 1.5 g, Fat: 3 g, Sodium: 142.5 mg, Fiber: 0.5 g, Sugar: 14 g

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*Betty Crocker has reduced their cake mixes, so read the labels on your box. Dunkin Hines still carries 18.25 oz boxes.