The Best Cupcakes Ever Made

I will definitely be claiming this recipe as one of my new Thanksgiving/Christmas tradition. I made 3 dozen easy for Thanksgiving and people haven't stopped talking about them yet. I think I could sit and eat over a dozen of these myself and not feel guilty. Not because they are healthy in any way, shape or form, they are just THAT good.... behold...

bakeitinacake's
Pumpkin Pie Cupcakes w/Cinnamon Cream Cheese Buttercream



Here is the genius behind these...

Do you see there in the middle?? Yes.. that is what you think it is.

Tiny Pumpkin Pies baked inside cupcakes!

As if yummy confection, known as cupcakes aren't enough, suddenly creamy pumpkin deliciousness hits your tongue and everything just melts. And they are entertaining, as everyone who ate one bit into half then wanted to see what the inside looked like, and wanted to see what everyone else's looked like. No matter how you bite it, its pure genius.

I did however change the recipe slightly, as you know, I don't make cake from scratch.

First of all, I have made the buttercream with Cinnamon because I didn't have Cinnamon Chips, but that was a mistake. The cinnamon chips are necessary for ultimate deliciousness, but I did hear they are hard to find. My grocery store just happened to have them up front with all of the other Christmas Baking ingredients. Amazing and they absolutely make the icing.

I did use 3 cups of powered sugar instead of 2... actually I just eye ball it after making a zillion batches of icing. I am used to making decorator icing which is really thick, so the very thin consistency of 2 cups of confectionery sugar just wasn't doing it for me. Also, add it to your mixture a 1/2 cup at a time unless you would like it to snow sugar in your kitchen.

I used Pillsbury's White Cake mix instead of making Bakeitinacake's recipe for cake.

I used pre-made refrigerated pie crust from the grocery store.. which Bakeitinacake actually suggests.

Pie filling. Read the back of the can. I have never worked with canned pie filling before and going into this didn't realize you needed to add things to  filling to make it actual pie filling.

They turned out a-maz-ing. Right down to the little pie crust circles on top. I had one boy tell me that he could eat a whole bag just of those. And I highly recommended making them, they just add the final touch to these adorable creations.