Pumpkin-orange muffins "Ghosts"

Great Halloween Cakes - Ghost Cupcakes! These orange pumpkin muffins are delicious, the crumb is juicy, soft, with a beautiful orange color and a bright orange flavor. Cheese cream and chocolate drops are easily transformed into "ghosts" that not only decorate cupcakes, but also make them taste perfect!

Ingredients

• For test:
• Soft butter - 150 g
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Sugar - 100 g
• Flour - 150 g
• Baking powder - 10 g
• Pumpkin - 280 g
• Water (for pumpkin puree) - 80 ml
• Orange - 1 pc.
• For cream:
• Cream cheese - 130 g
• Butter - 80 g
• Powdered sugar - 2 tbsp
• For decoration:
• Chocolate drops - 1 tbsp.

Directions

1. To prepare pumpkin puree, peel the pumpkin and seeds, cut into small pieces, transfer to a saucepan.
2. Pour in the water and cook the pumpkin, covered, for about 15-20 minutes, or until the pumpkin is fully cooked. Try to mash one piece of pumpkin with a fork - if this works out easily, remove the dishes from the stove.
3. Puree the pumpkin and remaining liquid in a blender until smooth pumpkin puree. Measure out the desired amount of puree (250-280 g) and let it cool.
4. In a bowl, combine eggs and sugar.
5. Beat the eggs and sugar with a mixer at high speed until a fluffy light mass is obtained, into which add soft butter.
6. Beat the egg-sugar mass with butter until smooth and smooth.
7. In the resulting cream, add the grated orange zest and pumpkin puree. Mix with a mixer at low speed.
8. Combine flour with baking powder and sift into bowl with pumpkin mixture.
9. Knead a homogeneous dough.
10. Divide the pumpkin batter into paper cup lined cups, taking up slightly more than half of each cup.
11. Bake the pumpkin-orange muffins in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for about 25 minutes. Cool the finished cupcakes.
12. For cream, beat soft butter with a mixer with powdered sugar until fluffy. Add cream cheese.
13. Beat the cream again until smooth.
14. Transfer the cream cheese to a piping bag fitted with a round tip and pipe into cooled pumpkin muffins.
15. Decorate cupcakes with chocolate drops, imitating the eyes and mouth of "ghosts".
16. Pumpkin-orange muffins "Ghosts" are ready.
17. Bon appetit!