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Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcake

by Editorial Staff

Pumpkin Puree Chocolate Cupcake is a simple yet incredibly delicious baked product. A moist, soft cake, airy and porous with a tempting chocolate flavor.

Summary

Cook Time90 mins
Total Time90 mins
CourseDessert
Servings (Default: 6)

Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcake Ingredients

  • Pumpkin – 200 g
  • Butter (room temperature) – 120 g + for form preparation
  • Milk – 70 ml
  • Eggs – 2 pcs.
  • Sugar – 200 g
  • Cocoa powder – 2 tbsp
  • Wheat flour – 250 g (1 full plus 2/3 cup of 250 ml)
  • Ground cinnamon – 1 teaspoon
  • Soda – 1 teaspoon
  • Vinegar (for extinguishing soda) – 1 teaspoon
  • Powdered sugar, for decoration (optional) – to taste
Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcake

Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcake Instructions

  1. Prepare pumpkin puree in advance: boil pumpkin, peeled and cut into small pieces, until soft (15-20 minutes), then grind with a blender and cool.
  2. Combine softened butter and sugar. Whisk until smooth.
  3. While continuing to beat the butter and sugar, add one egg first and beat for about a minute.
  4. Then add the second egg and beat for a couple more minutes, until the mixture is light and smooth.
    Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcake step 4
  5. Add pumpkin puree and milk. Stir.
  6. Add cinnamon powder and vinegar quenched baking soda.
  7. Stir in sifted wheat flour.
  8. Add cocoa powder to the dough.
    Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcake step 8
  9. Stir well so that no lumps remain.
  10. Pour the dough into a greased cake pan lined with baking paper.
  11. Place the pan in an oven preheated to 175 degrees and bake the cake for 40-45 minutes. Check the doneness by piercing the cake with a wooden skewer: the cake is ready if the skewer remains clean.
  12. Leave the finished cake in the pan for 5-7 minutes. Then remove from the mold, cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired.
  13. Chocolate muffin with pumpkin is ready.
Editorial Staff

About Editorial Staff

The Boss Kitchen editorial staff oversees content review, fact-checking, and recipe verification across the site. Published articles pass through the editorial team before going live, ensuring ingredient lists, techniques, cooking times, and nutritional claims hold up in a home kitchen. The team coordinates contributions across the site writers, handles reader corrections, and maintains consistency in measurement conventions, safety guidance, and dietary labeling. Posts under this byline typically represent team-reviewed reference material, site announcements, or editorial roundups rather than individual-author features, and they are held to the same sourcing standards as bylined recipe and product coverage.

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