How to Make Pumpkin Chocolate Cupcakes
These Pumpkin Chocolate Cupcakes are the perfect fall dessert when you want something easy, chocolatey, and full of pumpkin flavor. The cupcakes are soft and moist with a rich chocolate pumpkin flavor, then topped with creamy pumpkin cream cheese frosting for the perfect finishing touch.
They’re easy to make, fun to decorate, and perfect for Halloween parties, Thanksgiving, fall baking, or anytime you’re craving a pumpkin chocolate dessert. If you love pumpkin and chocolate together, these homemade pumpkin cupcakes are a must make!
Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes
This flavor combination is a winning flavor combination!
These Pumpkin Chocolate Cupcakes are the kind of fall dessert that gets everyone’s attention. The cupcakes are rich, chocolatey, and perfectly moist, then topped with creamy pumpkin cream cheese frosting that makes them extra special. And the best part?
You don’t need fancy decorating skills to make them look adorable. A simple swirl of frosting creates a cute little pumpkin on top, making these cupcakes perfect for Halloween parties, fall gatherings, Thanksgiving, or just when you want a fun homemade treat.
They’re easy enough to make without a lot of fuss, but cute enough that everyone will think you went all out.
Chocolate and pumpkin are two great flavors that go really well together,
Add on pumpkin cream cheese frosting, and it’s a win-win!
I love Fall, pumpkin, and all that goes along with Halloween.
Having fun dressing up and the silly fun that follows.
This year, I am a little behind though, as I just realized I don’t have costumes picked out. Believe me, I did think about it for 2 seconds, and there was that day that I took the kids to the store and they looked and looked, but didn’t find THE costume.
Now that Halloween is only a few days away, I guess I should really put my thinking cap on and decide what I’m going to be and help the kids pinpoint what they want to be, and then there is my husband, yes, he does dress up when I make him. I secretly think he enjoys it but doesn’t want to hear about it until we are almost out the door, so I usually have a backup plan of something easy for him to dress as.
This delicious frosting is a combination of pumpkin and cheesecake and is rich and delicious and is bound to become your new favorite frosting.
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This year, no.
Do you dress up?
Are you all ready?
Am I the only one who didn’t prepare in advance? Ok panic is setting in, and I need to decide.
Help me… what should my husband and I dress up as? What costumes have worked best for you? Really, I’m desperate, I NEED HELP!
While you’re thinking of costumes, I’ll tell you all about these easy and delicious cupcakes.
Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes
or make my homemade chocolate cupcake recipe
1 box German Chocolate Cake mix, 3 eggs, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup pumpkin puree, 1 1/4 cups milk, 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice, 1 cup mini chocolate chips.
Place cake mix, room-temperature butter, eggs and milk, pumpkin, and pumpkin pie spice into a mixing bowl and mix on medium speed for two minutes.
Scrape down the sides after one minute. Stir in chocolate chips.
Use a large scoop (3 Tablespoon size) it helps them to all come out in a uniform shape, into your lined cupcake pans. Bake at 325 degrees for 20 minutes. Let cool completely.
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Frosting 4 oz cream cheese, 1/2 cup butter, 5 cups powdered sugar, 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice, 3 Tablespoons milk/cream. Add pumpkin pie spice and vanilla extract.
Beat the cream cheese and sugar, then add powdered sugar, pumpkin pie spice, and milk, and mix until fully blended together and fluffy.
Remove 4 tablespoons of frosting for the stems, add two drops of Americolor Avocado for the green. Add a drop of Orange Americolor coloring to the remaining frosting
I placed the orange frosting in a piping bag with a #2D tip and started piping the pumpkins. Begin at the top of each cupcake and pipe down three lines one on each outer edge and one down the center.
Then pipe two additional lines in the spaces in between the other three. Apply the green stems with tip #66.
It’s a pumpkin patch of cupcakes!
Don’t forget to tell me all about what costumes you think we should wear.
How to Make Pumpkin Chocolate Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 box german chocolate cake
- 3 large eggs
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 1/4 cupss milk
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Place cake mix, room temperature butter, eggs and milk, pumpkin, and pumpkin pie spice into a mixing bowl and mix on medium speed for two minutes, scrape down the sides after one minute. Stir in chocolate chips.
- Use a large scoop (3 Tablespoon size) it helps them to all come out in a uniform shape, into your lined cupcake pans. Bake at 325 degrees for 20 minutes. Let cool completely.
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
- 4 oz cream cheese room temperature
- 1/2 cup butter room temperature
- 5 cups powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or more if desired
- 3 Tablespoons milk or heavy cream
- orange and avocado food coloring
Instructions
- Beat butter with cream cheese, until light and smooth.
- Add powdered sugar, milk/cream vanilla, and pumpkin pie spice.
- Mix until fully blended together and fluffy.
- Remove 2-4 tablespoons of the frosting to tint it green with a drop of the avocado color.
- Add some orange to the large portion to achieve the desired orange color, I use a small amount and add some vanilla extract which is brown and gives it a soft orange pumpkin color.
- Place frosting into a piping bag and decorate.
- I placed the orange frosting in a piping bag with a #2D tip and started piping the pumpkins. Begin at the top of each cupcake and pipe down three lines one on each outer edge and one down the center.
- Then pipe two additional lines in the spaces in between the other three. Apply the green stems with tip #66.
Love these cupcakes! Such a clever way to frost these!
I never would’ve dreamed of making these pumpkin cupcakes! I may have to practice my decorating skills.
Love these pumpking cupcakes, Diane. The frosting is just gorgeous and creamy. Save me one:)xx
Have a blast on Halloween, Diane! You could always dress up like one of your adorable cupcakes 🙂
Oh my goodness these look fabulous! I have got to make some this weekend, thanks for sharing the recipe 🙂
I love this cute cupcake recipe! I am so not into the whole “gore” side of halloween cooking, but these adorable little treats are a sure hit 🙂
xx
I’m no into the gore thing either, I did make a surprise inside Halloween cake and that is a “scary as I’d get” LOL….not scary at all 🙂 Here is the link if you want to see it and then laugh at me https://www.createdby-diane.com/2011/10/halloween-…
I just love how you frosted these cupcakes! I never would have thought to them the way you did. They look great.
These look delish! Happy Halloween!!
I’m running behind on figuring out my costume, too. It’s going to be a last-minute kind of deal. Love these adorable cupcakes!
They look adorable! I’m not sure I can’t make them like that, my hands are always shaking
You can try to rest your elbow or arm on the counter to steady you hand, or hold you wrist with opposite hand 🙂
That’s so awesome looking!. You’re very talented!
At first I thought it was 3D and a round ball, but after scrolling down further, I see it’s not.
As for costumes for you and your husband, how about a hot dog and a bun, or how about a chocolate bar and a jar of peanut butter? Just the first couple things that came to mind.
Great costume ideas, I actually have a Hershey Bar Costume, so all I’d need to do is make the peanut butter! Thanks
YUM! I am bookmarking this -headed to store for ingredients next! They look fantastic 🙂
So fun! Love these, Diane! That frosting sounds amazing!
Diane, these are honestly the cutest pumpkin cupcakes I have seen all season! I really want to make a cake with a big pumpkin like this on it! Great idea and recipe!!
Adorable! I love how you did the pumpkin-so creative!