Fluffy pumpkin cupcakes topped with a cream cheese Oreo frosting. It’s basically a kid’s drew come true! Plus, it has the whole black and orange thing going on which is perfect for Halloween! Pumpkin Oreo Cupcakes… so good. If you want to make them even more fun, you can always bake them on top of an Oreo like I did for my Peanut Butter Oreo Cupcakes and my Golden Oreo Cupcakes.
The Story:
Remember my really ghetto oven I’ve been baking with for years? Well I finally am moving up in the world! It’s still nothing real fancy but it doesn’t look ancient and pieces don’t fall off 🙂 But I was still so nervous to bake my first batch of cupcakes… The oven and the kitchen is sort of my life. Most people just deal with it if their oven has a few hot spots or doesn’t make cake rise well, but for me it’s a real deal breaker in the oven-Lizzy relationship.
But I pulled out my perfectly rounded pumpkin cupcakes and danced with joy around the kitchen to Broadway music.
I’m officially ready for the crazy holiday baking season.
Bring. It. On.
Pumpkin Oreo Cupcakes
Ingredients
Cake Mix Cake:
- 1 box yellow cake mix or spice cake mix and disregard extra spices
- 15 oz. pumpkin puree
- 3 eggs
- 1/3 C. oil
- 1/2 C. milk
- 1 Tbsp. pumpkin pie spice or cinnamon if that's all you have
Scratch Cake:
- 1 2/3 C. flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 C. sugar
- 3/4 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
- ¼ tsp. ground ginger
- 1/2 C. oil
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 C. milk
- 1 C. pumpkin puree
Oreo Frosting:
- 1/2 C. butter softened
- 8 oz. cream cheese
- 2-3 C. powdered sugar
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 6 Oreos split and remove cream and then finely crush
Instructions
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1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with cupcake liners.
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2. Cake Mix version: Sift cake mix into a large bowl to remove any lumps, add remaining ingredients and stir until smooth.
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3. Scratch Cake version: Sift flour, baking soda, sugar, salt cinnamon, nutmeg, and ground ginger together (or you can use pumpkin pie spice instead of the the separate spices). Add oil, eggs, milk and pumpkin puree and stir until smooth.
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4. Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full and bake for 15-20 minutes or until and inserted knife comes out dean.
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5. Let cool.
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6. Oreo Frosting: Beat butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add 2 cups powdered sugar and vanilla extract. Slowly add in more powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency. If it becomes too thick, add milk!
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7. Pipe onto cooled cupcakes and top with Oreos or crushed Oreos!
I’m so excited the holiday season is starting to come in full swing! I have tons of fun posts for you and even some incredible giveaways!
These have got to be my favorite Fall cupcakes so far!! I can’t wait to try these out. If only I had your frosting skills 🙂 Pinned!
Yay for a new oven Lizzy! These look/sound amazing! Definitely trying these this fall 🙂
They look good! You could even use a pumpkin spice Oreo on the bottom instead of a regular one!
These are speaking my love language. I’m craving everything pumpkin right now and these cupcakes are no exception.
Congrats on your ghetto oven upgrade. 🙂
These look so goooood! I love oreos. I may have to make this for my Halloween party this year!
I’m into ALL things pumpkin! These cupcakes sound amazing, Lizzy! Pinned and Stumbled!
Oreo frosting? Yes, please and thank you! Plus the pumpkin in the cupcakes makes the color just pop!
I am all about pumpkin right now, and these with that frosting…..yes please!
These sound awesome! I will be making them this weekend. I think I will put oreos on 1/2 and crushed heath bar on the other half. Thanks for yet another great recipe! Have a great weekend!
Oh yes, I’m obsessed with Heath bars!
Lizzy early, hi i love baking and was wondering if one day u could come down to orlando, FL and try my cupcakes. I have alot of questions for you, and it would be so cool for you to meet me in person. Even though u don’t make your cupcakes from stracth i still am inspired by your creative imagination, and photography! So please think about it and we could get to know eachother!
Sincerly, Jaila
Ps: Thank you!
Lizzy, Your icing looks like the Oreo crumbs are actually in it and also sprinkled on top; yet, the recipe does not say to add them to the icing. Also, if only using 2-3 cups of powdered sugar vice 3-4 cups, will there be enough icing for all the cupcakes? I got 21 out of the box recipe.
Though I am not Lizzy I have made many many cupcake recipes from her website and I always do 1 1/2 batches of frosting, sometimes I have a bit of extra but that ensures I never run out!
Hi Lizzy,
I noticed on the scratch recipe you added milk but I don’t see the that in the box recipe. Do you add milk to the box recipe?
You actually don’t have to add milk in the cake mix recipe, but you can add up to 1/3 C. if you like a lighter cake!
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