Halloween Cupcakes

Cupcakes are little more than muffins topped with icing. Other than that, muffins and cupcakes are pretty much identical—they are quickbreads that use the same amount of the basics like flour, milk and eggs. Muffins are generally customized with fruit, nuts, or vegetables (like these squashy ones); however, since these are topped with cream cheese frosting (and candy!), these squarely fall into the cupcake category.

This recipe is simply my pumpkin muffin recipe with cream cheese frosting. The pumpkin muffin recipe is wonderfully aromatic, full of spiciness from the cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon in the pumpkin pie spice. The cream cheese frosting adds a nice balance of sweetness to all of that spiciness. (Although I do admit, these are perfectly complete without the frosting.)

I’ll be debuting these tonight at the Boo-zy Bday Bash, so get there early if you want to try one! I’m sure they will be gone in no time!