Technically since it is Fat Tuesday, I should be talking about pancakes, right? I did that today on my post over at Celiac-Disease.com, so make sure to pop on over to check it out. When I found a can of pumpkin looking lonely in my pantry, I knew that I had to do something with it.
A few weeks ago, I got sucked into the black hole that is Pinterest one afternoon when I should have been writing, and came across this recipe using just cake mix & a can of pumpkin. It wasn’t a gluten-free mix, but I figured that I would give it a try and let you all know how it worked out.
I figured if this didn’t work, I would have something I could share with you all NOT to try at home. I opened up the box of cake mix, dumped in the can of pumpkin (15 oz can) & turned on my KitchenAid mixer. I mixed until everything, all 2 ingredients, were well blended. The mixture was thick, but I had confidence. Worse comes to worse, I could smear some almond butter or frosting on top & I am sure I would be just fine with the results, right? I mean come on, pumpkin is involved here!
I baked the cupcakes for about 23-25 minutes at 350 degrees. The box said 18-23, so I checked them after 18 minutes and they weren’t quite done. I let them cool before I frosted them with cream cheese frosting. They still had a bit of a rough top to them, so I will definitely be smoothing them out more the next time I make them. Please forgive the messy frosting job – I was trying to bake brownies & cook dinner at the same time that I was frosting these. Thank goodness for green sprinkles to hide my mess!!
I couldn’t wait to eat dinner so I could bite into one of these!! They were every bit as good as I thought they would be! Next time I will be experimenting with Devil’s Food cake mix + pumpkin – can you imagine?!
Perfect texture, moist and the cream cheese frosting was the most amazing complement! Put pumpkin & Betty Crocker Gluten-Free cake mix on your grocery list and make these STAT!!
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My son and me, November 2000. This is before we were gluten-free/diagnosed Celiac.
I'd been wondering if that would work! Looking forward to the report on the chocolate. Also, might work with the brownie mix, not sure.
It does work with the brownies!! Check out my post: http://celiac-disease.com/recipe-pumpkin-brownies…
I may have one of these for breakfast!
Kim, how many ounces is your can of pumpkin? In Canada our cans are bigger, so I would have to put less in.
Hillary – The can is 15 oz.
Kim
It works great with chocolate, but my favorite is with spice cake mix!
Oooh…spice cake!! YUM!
My mom actually told me about this a while ago, she's a big fan of this method. I'll have to try it out now too!
You will love it!!
Let me know what you think!
I used that BC GF mix a while ago. I loved the results.
That is awesome!
Its delicious!
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Have these in my oven right now, can't wait!! I did add an egg so the batter wasn't so thick and I added 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1/2 tsp. ginger, and a 1/4 tsp. ground cloves.