How To Make Gingerbread Cupcakes with Frosting
Impress your holiday guests with these gingerbread cupcakes spiced with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves, paired with a molasses cream cheese frosting.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Gingerbread Cupcake:
- 3½cupsall-purpose flour
- 2tspbaking powder
- 1½tspbaking soda
- ½tspsalt
- 2tbspground ginger
- 2tspground cinnamon
- ½tspground cloves
- 8tbspunsalted butter,1 stick, melted
- 1½cupsdark brown sugar
- 4large eggs
- ¾cupmolasses
- 1½cupswater
For Molasses Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 1lbcream cheese,2 blocks, at room temperature
- ½cupbutter,1 stick, at room temperature
- ¼cupmolasses
- 2tspvanilla extract
- 8cupspowdered sugar,sifted
Instructions
Gingerbread Cupcakes:
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 24 muffin tins with paper liners or spray with nonstick cooking spray.
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Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves into a medium bowl.
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Whisk together the melted butter, brown sugar, eggs, and molasses in a large bowl until blended.
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Add some of the water to the batter, then some of the dry ingredients. Continue alternating with the water and flour until everything is added and smooth.
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Fill each paper liner with ⅓ cup of the batter, about ¼-inch below the top of the liner.
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Place into the preheated oven and bake for about 15 to 18 minutes, just until the tops feel firm and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
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Remove from the oven and let cool to room temperature. Frost with molasses cream cheese frosting.
Molasses Cream Cheese Frosting:
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In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the cream cheese and butter on medium-high speed for about 1 minute until well combined and smooth.
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Mix in the molasses and vanilla extract. Gradually add in powdered sugar to reach desired frosting thickness, beating until smooth.
Nutrition
- Calories: 593.10kcal
- Fat: 20.21g
- Saturated Fat: 11.75g
- Trans Fat: 0.42g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 5.26g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.08g
- Carbohydrates: 99.58g
- Fiber: 0.91g
- Sugar: 78.89g
- Protein: 5.59g
- Cholesterol: 96.18mg
- Sodium: 332.00mg
- Calcium: 128.78mg
- Potassium: 380.57mg
- Iron: 2.63mg
- Vitamin A: 196.37µg
- Vitamin C: 0.02mg
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