it's almost time for some pumpkin pie...

Pumpkin is sooooo yummy. Autumn is probably my favourite season just because all the pumpkin, squash and gourdness comes out. For my pumpkin cupcakes I used a vanilla batter and just added some pumpkin pie spice which gave it a nice subtle flavour of everyone's fav pie. I topped it off with some buttercream icing - using meringue, sugar and butter - and made it look like a dollop of creme fouette! A few pumpkin seeds finished this little cake off. Now, for flavour and texture, the cake was nice, but I wanted to experiment with using actual pumpkin - I tried this and found that the cake was a lot more moist, a lot more pumpkin-y but I still liked the taste of the other cake maybe slightly better. The use of real pumpkin made the cake a little too fragile and moist, but still yummy...hmmm it's a toss up.