Pumpkin Cupcakes

By: Genevieve Melzer

October is a wonderful month, the leaves start to change, the holidays are just around the corner and my birthday is at the end of the month. As a Halloween baby, I look forward to Halloween/my birthday every year. People have always asked me if I liked sharing my birthday with Halloween and I always respond the same. I love having my birthday on Halloween, everyone always wants to party and dress-up it’s the best birthday ever.

Due to fact I am a Halloween baby, I am a total pumpkin-holic, meaning I crave everything pumpkin when it is October and November. I love when I start to see pumpkins for sale and the stores launch their lines of pumpkin goodies.

I have seen pumpkin bread, pumpkin soup, pumpkin waffles, pumpkin ice cream, etc. and none of it is vegan. So this year I decided to make my own delicious pumpkin goody. I decided to tackle pumpkin cupcakes; I knew that I could make delicious vegan pumpkin cupcakes.

You will need:
1/3 earth balance (or another vegan butter)
3/4 cup coconut sugar
3/4 cup Organic pumpkin puree
6 tablespoons of almond milk (or another milk alternative)
1 tablespoon of Vanilla extract
1 tablespoon of pumpkin spice
2 teaspoons of baking powder
1 cup oat flour
1/4 teaspoon of salt

1. Preheat oven at 350 degrees and place cupcake liners in the cupcake tin (use a cupcake tin that makes one dozen cupcakes)
2. Cream the earth balance and sugar together.
3. Add pumpkin puree, almond milk and vanilla extract and mix well.
4. Sift in pumpkin spice, baking powder, oat flour and salt, stir until combined.
5. The batter is now ready to scoop into the cupcake liners. Scoop one large spoonful into each cupcake liner in the tin. If extra batter add to each cupcake.
6. Place in oven and bake for 25-30 minutes.
7. To make sure they are done, use a toothpick and place it in the middle of one of the cupcakes and push down, then pull the toothpick out. If it comes out clean they are ready.
8. Let cool for 30 minutes.



While your cupcakes are baking you can start on the glaze. The glaze is a maple-pumpkin glaze and very easy to make.



Maple-Pumpkin Glaze



Maple-Pumpkin Glaze





½ cup pumpkin puree



2 pinches of pumpkin puree



2 tablespoons of maple syrup

1. In a medium sized bowl put in the pumpkin puree

2. Add the pumpkin spice and maple syrup and stir together until completely combined.

3. When cupcakes are done and cool, use a butter-knife to spread the glaze on the cupcakes.

4. The best part…eat them up!

There you have it my recipe for Pumpkin Cupcakes with a maple-pumpkin glaze, I hope you try this recipe and enjoy it as much as I did. From Two Girls & One Organic Garden have a happy Halloween!