 friends welcome back to my channel and welcome back to another video in my 2019 fall baking series you guys these cupcakes I said cupcakes frosted with sprinkles are absolutely divine and the smart points are out of this world so if you want to see what special recipe I have in store for you for this edition of the fall baking series just keep watching for this episode in my fall baking series we are going to be making spiced pumpkin cupcakes these are gonna have frosting and sprinkles and wait until you hear the smart points definitely something you can incorporate in your day-to-day eating so let me show you what is in our cupcakes first you're going to need some sugar-free classic yellow cake mix water unsweetened applesauce I'm going to be using the Pillsbury sugar-free vanilla frosting pecans I am not putting very much just because it will really help lower the points but still give you that net in every bite I also have two different types of sprinkles and these adorable Halloween fall cupcake liners if you've got it haunt it love it you'll also need some 100% pure pumpkin make sure you do not get the pumpkin pie filling but the pure pumpkin eggs and lastly of course some pumpkin pie spice I'm going to be using Dax you guys know I love Dax it is zero salt fantastic for the day before weigh-in or anybody who's watching their salt intake it is all natural no MSG and this pumpkin spice is hands down the best I've ever had all that is in here you guys cinnamon spices honey that's it and the honey in here just really elevates the taste it's delicious there are over 20 seasonings on the Dax website I'm going to put my code here on the screen for you it will get you 10% off and Dax has free shipping as well so you cannot beat it go check it out order some spices definitely add pumpkin spice to your cart so definitely check out Dax and that's everything for our pumpkin nothing so let's get started I did forget to show you that you'll also need some sugar alternative this is the Lakanto monk fruit I got this at Costco so we're gonna get started on our cupcakes so I have a small pan here to my pan I'm going to add two tablespoons of sugar now this is three total so I'm gonna add two tablespoons and I'm also going to add in my pecans and we are basically going to toast these pecans in with this sugar until they're nice and toasted and then we'll transfer them to a piece of parchment paper and we'll add that last little bit of sugar to them once you pull your toasted pecans off of the stove we're just gonna go ahead and sprinkle over that last tablespoon of sugar and kind of mix these to combine and we're just gonna let these set aside and let's put together the batter for our cupcakes so to get started on our cupcakes I added my box of the Pillsbury sugar-free yellow cake mix directly here to my bowl to that I'm going to add one-third cup of unsweetened applesauce now this is in substitution of the oil you can also sub with nonfat Greek yogurt and you can also actually sub with canned pumpkin so I decided to do applesauce but I am going to add in one cup of the canned pumpkin I am not measuring I'm just going to add approximately a cup it is zero smart points so I did add my one cup of pumpkin I'm also going to add in my Dax seasoning and again as you know I don't usually measure I just kind of add to my liking as far as pumpkin seasoning goes one cup of water and lastly I'm going to add in my three eggs now while I'm adding my eggs I want to talk to you a little bit about our pecans you can see that I have them sitting right there the recipe wants you to roll the edges of your cupcakes in the pecans I have decided not to do that only because I want to be able to put sprinkles on my cupcakes so instead of rolling the edges of my frosted cupcakes in my pecans I'm actually going to just add my toasted pecans directly to my batter and then that way we have pecans in all of our cupcakes so you can really do it either way I think it's better for me due to the fact that I want to use sprinkles to add them directly into my batter so I'm going to get this nice and mixed together you can do this with an electric hand mixer as the recipe suggests I'm just going to use my spoon get everything nice and combined and then we'll be ready to put these into these cute little cupcake liners and get these into the oven so our batter is ready you guys it smells so good I have lined 12 of my cute little muffin liners my goal is to get 12 cupcakes and I'm using my medium-sized scoop I do purchase these scoops off of Amazon you get three in a pack for $10 they are linked in my Amazon store best price you guys so I'm going to go ahead and put one scoop start with one scoop per liner we want our liners about two-thirds of the way full only because we want room to frost our cupcakes as well so we don't want them to be huge when they come out of the oven because we want room to be able to frost so I'm going to get all 12 of my liners filled with my delicious batter and then we'll be ready to get these into the oven you can see that I was easily able to get 12 cupcakes and I still have this much batter left so once these come out of the oven we'll refill our liners and see how many more cupcakes we can get and then that's well we'll determine our smart points per cupcake so I'm going to put these in the oven at 350 degrees until I can insert a toothpick and it comes out clean all right guys our cupcakes are out of the oven these look so good it smells all things fall in here so I'm going to transfer these on to this cutting board here to cool and we'll refill however many more we can get out of our batter I was able to get five more cupcakes so I have a total of 17 cupcakes these are looking so good so I'm going to pop these last five into the oven and I'll be back once they're cooled and I'll show you how I'm going to frost them and decorate them all right so our cupcakes you guys these look amazing are nice and cool so I have my Pillsbury sugar-free frosting you can have just under a tablespoon for one smart point I mean literally just under a tablespoon I am not even going to put that per cupcake I'm going to do more like a teaspoon and a half because that is a lot of frosting so I'm still going to count my frosting as one point even though I'm not quite using an entire seven eighths of a tablespoon so I'm just going to spread my frosting nice and even on my cupcake it is fairly thin I mean you can always add more frosting if you want to do two tablespoons it is three points or if you want to do one and a half tablespoons it's one point or two points I'm sorry but I'm literally just going to put a nice thin coating on my cupcake and then I can go ahead and select whatever decoration I want so on this particular one I think I'm going to do my little Halloween non-parrell so I'm just going to pop those on my cupcake and you guys look at how cute so let's get these cupcakes frosted and decorated here are our completed pumpkin spice cupcakes frosted sprinkled delicious so these cupcakes the cupcake itself is two smart points and that includes the pecans that we added to the cupcake the frosting is one smart point I do not count points for the sprinkles we literally put on hardly anything so these cupcakes you guys three smart points a piece that's it so you can have a spiced pumpkin frosted and sprinkled cupcake for three smart points thank you for joining me in another episode of my ww fall baking series these cupcakes you guys were so good they were extremely moist from the pumpkin with that sweetness and bite of the pecan and then of course you can't go wrong with frosting and sprinkles definite must make for any type of holiday event coming up you could do these on Thanksgiving you could do these for Halloween it's a great treat to take to the office and you can't beat a cupcake with frosting and sprinkles for three smart points I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please give it a thumbs up it really helps my channel subscribe if you're new make sure you hit that notification bell so you're notified every time I upload comment down below let me guys let me know what you guys think of this recipe I'm telling you it is an absolute must make thank you again for watching and I'll see you all in my next video bye