Pumpkin Butterfinger Cupcake

By carvalhohm

Ingredients

• Butterfinger Buttercream:
• 1 box white or yellow cake mix (or spice cake mix and omit spices)
• 1 Tbsp. pumpkin pie spice
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 15 oz. pumpkin puree
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 C. oil or applesauce
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 4 Butterfingers, normal sized
• 1 C. butter, softened (or 1/2 C. butter and 8 oz. cream cheese)
• 3-4 C. powdered sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• extra Butterfingers for decoration

Details

Adapted from community.qvc.com

Preparation

Step 1

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with cupcake liners.

2. Sift cake mix, pumpkin pie spice and cinnamon together and set aside.

3. In a large bowl, combine pumpkin, eggs, oil and vanilla exact until smooth.

4. Stir in cake mix and spices. (You can ALWAYS add 1 1/2 cups of chocolate chips if you want to.)

5. Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full and bake for 16-20 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean.

6. Let cool.

7. Butterfinger Buttercream:
Prep Butterfingers by scraping off the chocolate with a knife. It doesn't have to be done perfectly, just get most of it off. Put the 4 de-chocolated butterfingers into a food processor or blender and grind them down. (If you only have a plastic bag and a rolling pin, that will do, you'll just get a bit of a work out.) Put the ground up Butterfingers through a sifter and the pieces that fall through will be added to your buttercream while the pieces that don't go through will become your "sprinkles" to put on top! In a mixer, beat your butter. Add the Butterfinger pieces that went through the sifter (it should look like a powder) to the butter and slowly add in powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency. Add in vanilla extract and mix again. Add 1 tablespoon milk if it is too thick.

8. Pipe onto cooled cupcakes, sprinkle on your Butterfinger "sprinkles" you made above, and top with a piece of Butterfinger!

NOTE: You should get about 1/2 C. butterfinger "powder" that goes into your buttercream, this is the part fine enough to go through the sifter.