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Pumpkin Frosting

Name: Pumpkin Frosting
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons unsalted butter (at room temperature); 1/2 cup 100% pumpkin puree; 1/2 teaspoon vanilla; 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon; 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg; 5 cups powdered sugar

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by Lisa Longley

posted: 09/17/17

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by Lisa Longley

updated: 09/16/21

4.79 from 19 votes

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This easy Pumpkin Frosting Recipe has such a perfect pumpkin flavor, and would be amazing on a million different things!

a chocolate cupcake with pumpkin frosting swirled in a rosette pattern

This Pumpkin Frosting is incredibly popular because it is the perfect creamy frosting texture while having the best pumpkin spice flavor.

It is perfect on chocolate cupcakes, but if you decided to just eat it with a spoon I would totally understand.

Pumpkin Frosting Ingredients

This recipe comes together quickly with so many ingredients that are already in your pantry.

Butter
Pumpkin
Cinnamon
Nutmeg
Vanilla Extract
Powdered Sugar

pumpkin frosting that has been piped into a small mason jar

How To Make Pumpkin Frosting

Did you know that frosting is incredibly easy to make. I’m not someone who thinks that all things need to be homemade, but with how easy frosting is to make, I never buy it. Homemade is a million times better.

Using a hand mixer or a stand mixer, beat together room temperature butter and pumpkin puree.
Mix in the spices and the vanilla extract.
Next beat in the powdered sugar a little at a time until you get the right consistency.

Pumpkin Frosting Tips and Tricks

Room Temperature Butter: You should be able to push your finger into the butter easily, but without it going all the way through. The correct temperature butter is important in this recipe.
Measuring Powdered Sugar: When making this recipe, do not pack the powdered sugar into the measuring cup. You will end up with too much and a frosting that is too thick.
Use Milk: If you end up with frosting that is too thick or difficult to pipe, use a tablespoon of milk to make it easier to work with.

overhead look at five cupcakes that have pumpkin frosting piped in a rosette style on them

Other Great Pumpkin Recipes

These Pumpkin Sugar Cookies are perfectly crisp on the outside and buttery soft on the inside.
My Pumpkin Bread has the best cinnamon sugar atop a soft moist bread.
These Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies are exactly what you want in a cookie.

If you make this great Pumpkin Frosting or any of my other recipes, leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

4.79 from 19 votes

Pumpkin Frosting

Author: Lisa Longley

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Prep: 10

Total: 10

This easy Pumpkin Frosting Recipe has such a perfect pumpkin flavor, and would be amazing on a million different things!

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Ingredients

4 tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature
1/2 cup 100% pumpkin puree
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
5 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

Slowly cream together the butter and the pumpkin with a handheld mixer or stand mixer with the whisk attachement. (Note: I wasn't able to get it to a completely smooth mixture even after several minutes of my mixer on medium, so just get it as close to combined as possible.)
Beat in the vanilla, then the cinnamon, then the nutmeg.
Slowly add the powdered sugar about a cup at a time until you are able to get it to the right consistency.

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Nutrition Information

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

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Lisa is the founder of Simple Joy. Lisa, is a self taught cook and avid lover of all things food, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For the last 10 years Lisa has been reading cookbooks, experimenting in the kitchen, and learning everything she possibly can about cooking. The result has been the ability to create recipes, both classics and new twists, that readers fall in love with and make with ease. Lisa loves not only providing delicious and easy recipes, but also giving the why behind what we are doing in the kitchen. She gets such great joy in sharing my love for food.

Lisa has been featured in many media outlets. These outlets include Country Living, Real Simple, Today, Parade, Good Housekeeping, Buzzfeed, Delish, Elle, and many others.

Prior to becoming a food creator, Lisa was a social worker. She received her master’s in social work from the University of Milwaukee and worked in child welfare.

Lisa is the mom to four amazing kids: Gavin, Elliot, Quinn, and Piper. Gavin, Quinn, and Piper are happy, amazing kids she loves spending time with.

Her husband, Nathan, is her partner in life and in business. He is her rock in more ways than one and supports all of her crazy dreams.

Lisa and Nathan lost their second child, Elliot, when he was 8 days old. If you want to know more about Elliot, you can read it here. If you want to read more of Lisa’s experience of grief, you can read this post.

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