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Another mom made cupcakes for my daughter's Pumpkin Festival in her class last week. The cupcakes were great and she gave me her recipe.
1 box chocolate cake mix
1 can pumpkin
Mix together and bake according to the directions on the box.
That was it. They were very moist. I've heard of substituting applesauce for the oil but I never heard of this before.
She did say it looked a little lumpy after it was baked but it tasted fine and the bumps were hidden by the frosting so they even looked pretty.
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That sounds really good! One of the best muffins I've ever eaten was a pumpkin muffin with chocolate chunks, so I can see how this would work.
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That does sound good. I'm going to have to try those.
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My brother in law made us a cake with Mom's new cookware..it had NO eggs, and had zuchinni, carrots, and another veggie in it. You couldn't taste it and the cake was So moist! yummy!
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oh wow
so i made these today. the batter was really thick, but that helped with making sure the cupcakes were even  It WAS a little lumpy because the batter didn't spread too easily. but oh my god are they delicious. the pumpkin is just a hint of a taste and tehy're not sweet. well they ARE sweet but it's a subtle sweet. and omg are they yummy
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Yeah, they are great!
I'm wondering how it would taste if I used a spice cake mix. I think that would be yummy. 
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Do you use normal solid packed pumpkin or the Libby's pumpkin pie stuff (that already has spices, etc. in it?
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The mom who gave me the recipe just used regular pumpkin without the spices. I think either would work if you like the pumpkin pie spices.
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I'd make it with the solid packed pumpkin, I think...just wanted to check though. This sounds good. I'll have to try it out.
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Jayna_Kilmer posted:
Yeah, they are great!
I'm wondering how it would taste if I used a spice cake mix. I think that would be yummy.
This.
I will try this over the weekend. I am also going to throw in some walnuts to it.
Which is awesome, because I got free pumpkins from work (I work at a grocery store), so I have 2 nice sized pumpkins to seed (yum! I love roasted pumpkin seeds) and bake. I don't really care to make pumpkin pie from any other pumpkin than the squash-type (the smaller ones), but I do make pumpkin cakes, muffins, etc from this kind of pumpkin.
Yay for baking!
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You know jayna, it would probably be awesome with the spiced cake mix.
and you know what else I was thinking. Is that they didn't rise a whole lot, I think my next batch I may just plop a big spoonful on a cookie sheet like drop biscuits.
I just used a can of pumpkin stuff -non spiced (can't get the spiced stuff because there are ginger allergies in the house).
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I bake muffins for my youngest's wrestling team for their away meets. while searching for recipes for muffins, I found the spice cake and canned pumpkin recipe on allrecipes. Quite a few folks on there posted that they'd added two eggs to theirs, so I did as well.. Came out great topped with chopped walnuts 
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Ok...
So I made the spice cake with pumpkin muffins and..holy cow, I'm in love! Here's what I did:
1 spice mix cake
2 cups of mashed pumpkin (plain!)
2 eggs
Mixed it together, baked on 350 for 20 mins. Half of the mix I added crushed walnuts. Very good. These would be really good with a cinnamon roll icing or cool whip. It made 18 cupcakes/muffins per box.
Yum yum!!!
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