Here's the recipe from Ming's site:
Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
CUPCAKES
1 cup flour
1 tsp soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
pinch of nutmeg
pinch of cloves
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 cup pumpkin
Mix flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, and cloves. In a separate bowl, mix sugar and eggs. Add oil and mix at medium speed for three minutes. Add flour mixture, and then add pumpkin. Mix at medium speed until well blended. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean.
FROSTING
4 oz. room temp. cream cheese
1/2 stick room temp. butter
1/2 lb confectioner’s sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
crystallized ginger
Mix ingredients together by hand. Once blended, whip with an electric mixer until fluffy. Top cupcakes and add crystallized ginger if desired.
Starting with the cupcakes.
First, I mixed all the dry ingredients together like so...
Then, whipped up the wet ingredients...
Next, I added the flour mixture and the pumpkin to the wet ingredients to create the cupcake batter. When filling up the cupcake sleeves, note that this batter doesn't rise as much as fluffier batter tends to do. So, you can fill the cups up about halfway or a little more. Although, I inadvertently liked the smaller cupcakes I made before I knew this. So, just a heads up so you can choose your preference.
On to everyone's favorite...the FROSTING!
In order to convert the half pound of powdered sugar that the recipe calls for, I added a little less than a cup. This turned out really well! I also ended up doubling the recipe, because you can never have too much frosting! The recipe calls for you to mix by hand before using the electric mixer. I'm guessing this is a really important step; otherwise, the powdered sugar would fly everywhere. Cleaning. Nightmare. Not that I know from experience or anything...
I piped the icing onto the cupcake, then sprinkled a little cinnamon on top (instead of the ginger ;) ). Voila!
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