Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese frosting. Yum.

• Prep: 25 min. Bake: 20 min. + cooling
• Yield: 24 Servings
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Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 2-1/2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 can (15 ounces) solid-pack pumpkin
• 2-1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 cup buttermilk
• FROSTING:
• 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 dozen pumpkin candy 

Directions

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add pumpkin. Combine the flour, pie spice, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, baking soda and ginger; add to the creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition.
• Fill paper-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 large bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Add the confectioners’ sugar, vanilla and cinnamon; beat until smooth. Frost cupcakes. Refrigerate leftovers. Yield: 2 dozen.
• Also do not forget to add candy to top of frosting, or you could use cinnamon or graham crackers.
Nutritional Facts1 cupcake equals 340 calories, 14 g fat (8 g saturated fat), 62 mg cholesterol, 233 mg sodium, 53 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 4 g protein.

My first sold batch of cupcakes!

So I sold my first set of cupcakes! 

They were ghiradelli chunk chocolate cupcakes with vanilla frosting and chocolate sprinkles. They came out Delicious. If anyone's curious I am going to post the recipe for both frosting and cupcakes.

Ingredients

• 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup milk
• 1 ghirardelli's chocolate bar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a muffin pan with paper or foil liners. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa and salt. Set aside.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition, then stir in the vanilla. Add the flour mixture alternately with the milk; beat well. Fill the muffin cups 3/4 full, cut up chunks of ghirardelli chocolate and insert into chocolate mix in the muffin cups.
3. Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Frost with your favorite frosting when cool 

And now for the Vanilla frosting!

Ingredients:

Yields 2 cups.

4 cups powdered sugar

4 tablespoons butter or 4 tablespoons margarine, softened

4 tablespoons milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions: Combine ingredients and beat on medium speed until smooth and fluffy.

add chocolate sprinkles.

Recipe is courtesy of  food.com

They came out great! I sold them for ten bucks. Not bad for my first sale :)