Autumn Pumpkin Cupcakes

Originally was just going to make regular cupcakes for my family , no fancy stuff , just regular cupcakes and slathered some icing on top . Well , it never went that way , although i was so distracted earlier while i was making the french butter cream icing , i turned the sugar into caramel .. LOL , yes i had to redo it , wasted 2 eggs and sugar !! So my chocolate cupcakes , ended up with beautiful orange icing from yellow and red gel coloring that i used , and why did i choose orange ? Because my son loves the color of orange , and then i thought hmm .. why not playing around with added pumpkins there .. so there i was .. making the pumpkins using fondant . Not my favourite thing to do , but heck i was in the mood for it ..

For the cupcakes :

1 3/4 cup of all purpose flour

2 cups of sugar

3/4 cup of cocoa powder

2 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp.baking powder

1 tsp.salt

2 eggs

1 cup of strong coffee

1 cup of buttermilk

1 tsp.vanilla extract

1 capfull of kahlua

1/2 cup of veggie oil

1. Preheat oven 350 F , in a large mixing bowl , mix together the dry ingredients , make a well in the center and add the wet ingredients , make sure  your coffee is cool enough before adding into the batter . Mix medium speed for 2 minutes . Pour into the cupcakes liner , and bake for about 18 minutes .