Fluffy and moist cupcakes flavoured with pumpkin puree and autumn spices topped with decadent, creamy cinnamon frosting. A must-bake for halloween!
Pumpkin spice just SCREAMS "winter is coming".
And I love it.
Pumpkin is absolutely dominating food blogs everywhere. Pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pie, pumpkin spice everything. I wanted to make my contribution! Complete with adorable, hand made tiny pumpkins to decorate, of course :)
I love baking with spice - ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, mixed spice,,, They transform a recipe beautifully and give a lovely warm, autumnal flavour. But I had never baked with pumpkin before so wasn't quite sure how it would turn out. I was very very pleasantly surprised with this combination of flavours!
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Greetings from Scotland, everybody!
I am currently not in my usual location of beautiful, sunny Wales as I am visiting my boyfriend Martin's family all the way in Edinburgh in Scotland. It is such a gorgeous city (shame it is even rainier than Wales!) and I am having such a nice time, BUT I have been having some serious baking withdrawal symptoms!! Despite this blog still being so young and me being so new to this, I have been so excited to be able to get in the kitchen to bake up a storm and share it with you!
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Last night I was very grateful to Martin's mother for letting me take over her kitchen to bake them all some lovely cinnamon swirl cupcakes! I think in America you would call something like these "snickerdoodle" flavoured cupcakes judging by some of the recipes I have previously drooled over on Pinterest. I have never been fortunate enough to experience a snickerdoodle however, and these taste exactly like delicious, sweet-but-spicy cinnamon swirls but in a perfect moist, light and fluffy cupcake so cinnamon swirl cupcakes they shall be called! I topped each cupcake with another new recipe that I had not tried before: whipped brown sugar buttercream. The texture of this buttercream was absolutely divine, sort of like whipped cream and melted in your mouth but with the sweet, rich caramel-like flavour that comes from brown sugar. I was so impressed with how easy it was to make and how well it piped and held its shape on top of the cupcakes. Unlike whipped cream icing (which I love) that has a tendency to slightly melt and ruin any lovely pipework you have done if not kept in the fridge and, I dont know about you, but I reeeeeeallllyyy dont like refridgerated cake!!! But anyway, If you love cinnamon (and even if you dont, trust me) I highly suggest you make these right now!! For you cinnamon haters: the taste is not too overpowering but gives a subtle perfect hint of sweetness and flavour, I promise you will not be disappointed!
