Bedlam at Bragg: Way too easy pumpkin cupcakes!

If you're in mood for something fall-ish & sweet, this is the perfect recipe! I called them way-too-easy pumpkin cupcakes, because anything that tastes this good and is this easy to make should be a crime. I wont take credit for the recipe. This time last year I found a recipe for chocolate pumpkin cupcakes and it was basically this recipe plus chocolate chips and without the cream cheese icing. I made them with the chocolate chips but was not a fan, I thought cream cheese icing would suit them much better. So I simply made them again omitting the chips and adding cream cheese icing on top. Voila! Seriously, you can not mess this recipe up, and they are delicious.

cupcakes

1 box of Duncan Hines spice cake mix
1 can pumpkin

Mix the dry cake mix and 1 entire can of pumpkin in a bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. The consistency will be thicker than cake batter, but thinner than peanut butter. Spoon into baking cups. (I like to spray my baking cups with pam spray first.) Bake at 350 for around 25 minutes, or until a toothpick come out clean. Wait til cool, then spread with icing.

cream cheese icing

1 8oz package of cream cheese (room temp.)
1/2 cup butter (room temp.)
2 teaspoons vanilla
4-6 cups powdered sugar.

Use an electric mixer to cream the butter, cream cheese, & vanilla until smooth. Slowly beat in the powdered sugar until you get your desired consistency. The amount of sugar is flexible depending on how stiff you like the icing. I tend to like it to be a little creamier, so I put less sugar. I also like to leave it on the counter at room temperature until I spread it on my cupcakes because it spreads more easily and smoothly. Eat and enjoy!

I do not recommend making these unless you have people to help you eat them! I made a batch and took plates to all my neighbors. Then I still had so much cream cheese icing left I made a second batch for my husband to take to his soldiers at work. (Hopefully I can hold off on eating them til he can deliver them.) Also, this will not make the full 24 cupcakes like a cake mix usually does. I was able to get 15-18 per batch.