Gingerbread cupcakes
These adorable gingerbread cupcakes are the perfect sweet treat to make for Christmas day, you can even pre-prepare some ingredients for example the cakes and biscuit dough ahead of time which makes them a convenient go to recipe.
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Servings: 12
Calories: 336kcal
Ingredients
Cake
- 125 g ¼c butter, softened
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- 1 free-range egg
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup molasses or golden syrup
- 1-⅓ cups wholemeal plain flour
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
Icing
- 140 g 5oz of butter, softened
- 2 cups icing sugar sifted
- 2 tablespoon milk
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- 12 mini gingerbread men
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 170C(375F) fan-forced and line a 12-hole muffin tin with cupcake liners.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter and brown sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Add the egg, water and molasses and beat them through.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, nutmeg and allspice.
- Beat the flour mixture into the butter and sugar mixture until just combined and then increase the speed to medium and beat for 2 minutes.
- Divide the batter between the cases and bake for 20-25 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the middle of one of the cakes comes out clean.
- Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
- To make the icing, beat the butter and icing sugar together with the milk and ginger until the mixture is light and fluffy.
- Use a piping bag fitted with a star tip to pipe the icing on top of the cakes.
- Top each cake with a mini gingerbread man and dust with icing sugar.
Notes
Nutritional values don't include the gingerbread people on top.
Nutrition
Calories: 336kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 61mg | Sodium: 312mg | Potassium: 43mg | Fiber: 0.5g | Sugar: 40g | Vitamin A: 577IU | Vitamin C: 0.02mg | Calcium: 31mg | Iron: 0.3mg
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