If you don't want pumpkin PIE...

Happy "Day-Before" Thanksgiving!!!

If you want an alternative to Pumpkin PIE this year, or just want something spectacular to take with you Visiting Teaching, here's one of our favorite recipes:


Pumpkin Cupcakes (with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting)

Cupcakes:

2 1/4 cups Flour
1 Tbsp. Baking powder
1/2 tsp. Baking soda
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Cinnamon (I add a little bit more!)
1/2 cup Butter (softened)
1 1/2 cups Brown sugar
2 Eggs
1 cup Canned Pumpkin
3/4 cup Milk
3/4 cup chopped Walnuts or Pecans ( I NEVER add this... sorry.)

Preheat oven to 375 F. Insert paper liners into 24 muffin cups. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs. Blend in pumpkin. Stir in flour mixture alternately with milk, blending after each addition. Stir in nuts (if you're NUTS!)

Spoon batter into muffin cups, filling cups about 2/3 full. Bake 25 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Frost with maple cream cheese frosting.


Frosting:

1/4 cup Butter
8 ounces Cream cheese (room temperature)
3 cups Confectioner's sugar
2 tsps. Vanilla extract
1 tsp. Maple flavoring

Combine all ingredients in large mixing bowl and beat until smooth.


So easy!!! And then, of course, find a pretty plate and napkin. It makes you look so domestic. Man, I have people fooled. :)


I hope that your Thanksgiving is full of good food, football, and lots of family time. AND... I sure hope that your turkeys are thawed right about NOW.

(Are you running to the freezer?..... Yeah.)

Love,
Nicole
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