Hope everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving weekend!  Mine was filled with great company and great food.
This thanksgiving weekend, I baked a pumpkin cupcake

ingredients:
-2 cups granulated sugar
-1 1/4 cups canola oil
-1 tspn vanilla extract
-2 cups canned pumpkin
-4 eggs
-2 cups all purpose flour
-3 tspn baking powder
-2 tspn baking soda
-1/4 tspn salt

-2 tspn pumpkin spice mix
-1/2 tspn cinnamon powder

frosting ingredients:
-1/4 cup of butter (room temp)
-8oz cream cheese
-1lbs of powdered sugar
-1/2 tspn vanilla extract
-1/4 tspn salt

directions:

-preheat oven to 350F
-on stove top, heat the canned pumpkin until warm , set aside
-mix sugar and oil in a big bowl, add the pumpkin

-while cupcakes are baking, make the frosting:
-whisk butter and cream cheese until smooth
-add sifted powdered sugar and whisk
-add vanilla and salt and mix until smooth

- once cupcake are cool, in a pastry bag, fill with pumpkin pie filling (i cheated a little and used the pumpkin pie filling from a store bought pie.)
- place tip in the center of the cupcake and pipe pie filling into the cupcake
- pipe the top with desired frosting (i like pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting)

happy holidays~

p.s. I found a Twinkies recipe online today, I plan on baking them this weekend. Will keep you posted.