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- Ingredients
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- 2 cups all-purpose flour
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- 2 teaspoons baking powder
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- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
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- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
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- 1/4 teaspoon ginger
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- 1/4 teaspoon salt
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- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
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- 1 1/4 cups sugar
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- 1egg
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- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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- 1 cup canned pumpkin
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- Cream Cheese Frosting:
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- 3 cups confectioners' sugar
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- 1 8-ounce package cream cheese
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- 4 tablespoons butter
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- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
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- Yellow and red food coloring
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- Pretzel nuggets (stems)
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- Green gumdrops (leaves)
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- 1. Heat the oven to 350┬║ and line a 12-cup muffin
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- tin with bake cups. In a large mixing bowl, stir
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- together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon,
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- nutmeg, ginger, and salt. Set the mixture aside.
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- 2. In a separate mixing bowl, stir together the oil
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- and sugar. Whisk in the eggs and stir in the
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- vanilla extract.
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- 3. Pour the wet ingredients over the dry
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- ingredients and gently stir the mixture until well
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- combined. Explain to your child that she should
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- stir only until she can no longer see any pockets
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- or streaks of flour.
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- 4. Stir the pumpkin into the batter until it is
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- thoroughly combined. Spoon the batter into the
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- lined muffin tins. Bake for 20 minutes or until a
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- knife inserted in the middle of one cupcake comes
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- out clean. Let the cupcakes sit in the tin for 10
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- minutes and then remove to a rack to cool
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- thoroughly.
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- 5. Meanwhile, make the Cream Cheese Frosting.
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- In a medium-size mixing bowl, beat together the
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- confectioners' sugar, cream cheese, butter, and
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- lemon juice until smooth. Add about 12 drops of
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- yellow food coloring and 4 drops of red food
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- coloring and beat until the frosting turns orange.