pumpkin~patch~cakes

This was a fun and easy design: simply ice your cupcake, dip into orange sprinkles, use a toothpick to make some indentations in your pumpkin and then pipe some icing in the indents to create the grooves. You can use green licorice for the stems or ice them on too! There's a quick youtube video about how to create these cupcakes here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCvFGsHkoRw

To make pumpkin flavoured cupcakes follow the directions on a spice/yellow/white cake mix box, add 1 can pumpkin, an extra egg and sub buttermilk in for the water. Then add your pumpkin pie spice: cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and allspice. The result is an aromatic, light and fluffy cake reminiscent of pumpkin pie :)