Frosting Recipes

This easy-as-cake maple cream frosting recipe is designed to go with a luscious spiced pumpkin cake.  It’s a simple cream cheese style frosting enhanced by maple syrup or maple extract.  Depending on how sweet your cupcakes are, you may wish to use less sugar than is called for in this frosting recipe.

Pumpkin cake recipe and instructions at the link below:

Maple Cream Frosting

1 (8-oz.) package cream cheese, room temperature
1/2 to 1 teaspoon maple extract
2 tablespoons milk or pure maple syrup
4 cups confectioners’ sugar

While cakes are baking, place cream cheese, milk or maple syrup and maple extract in a bowl. Beat till combined. Gradually add confectioners’ sugar until smooth and creamy. Add more milk or syrup if frosting is too stiff to spread.

Orlando Sentinel – Recipe: Pumpkin cupcakes with maple cream frosting.