Pecan Pie Spice Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Frosting

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These fun, Fall inspired cupcakes are filled with my favorite spices and topped with a deliciously sweet brown sugar frosting!

I know technically it's still summer, but the weather here in Michigan this week has been very Fall-like. Fall is definitely my favorite season - cooler temps, warm sweaters, football, the changing colors, and of course Fall baking! There is nothing quite like the aroma of cinnamon, pumpkin and nutmeg wafting throughout my house.

Every year I can hardly wait until the weather cools off just enough to start my Fall baking. And I love trying out new seasonal products that come out each year too. I'm sure you can imagine just how excited I was when I discovered that M&M's® came out with a new Pecan Pie flavor for Fall. Pecan pie, people. PECAN PIE! So of course I bought myself a bag (okay, I bought two!), and jumped into the kitchen to create something new and delicious.

Sour Cream Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

This moist and tender spice cake is filled with raisins and slathered in a decadent cream cheese frosting!

My love of cooking and baking was passed down to me from my mom and both of my grandmothers. Meme, my mom's mom, was a Southern gem who loved to garden and can just about everything. Her bread and butter pickles were amazing and like no other! Her hush puppies were the bomb too.

Grandma Jane, my dad's mom, loved to bake. Pies, cookies and cakes were her specialty. With their influences, and my mom's too, I was baking and cooking at a young age. The holidays of course were always a time for special treats. We'd have dozens of different cookies and fudge for days. It was amazing!

Spice Cake with Lemon Curd Filling

A moist and tender spice caked filled with a surprise of luscious lemon curd!

This month our Blogger Recipe Challenge group was fortunate enough to be sponsored by Love Cooking Company. They sent each of us a Mrs. Fields Fill N Flip Round Baking Pan and put us to work! This pan is like nothing I'd ever seen before. It's unique design leaves a spot in the center of the cake to add a filling, then the other half of the cake goes on top and covers it all up! Super cool if you ask me.