Gingerbread Cupcakes | Cookies & Cups

What Makes These Gingerbread Cupcakes So Good?

With the festive season across the nook, I can’t wait to have these gingerbread cupcakes on repeat! These delicate, moist gingerbread cupcakes style so much like my soft-baked gingerbread cookies, flavored with caramelized brown sugar and a touch of molasses. Right here’s what makes these fluffy gingerbread cupcakes so nice:

• Straightforward components. Nearly each ingredient in these cupcakes is a pantry staple, aside from possibly the molasses. Fortunately, I had a jar left over from my final batch of molasses cookies! In any case, every thing you want is simple to search out within the grocery retailer.
• They style identical to gingerbread! I really like how shut in taste these home made cupcakes are to basic gingerbread cookies. There’s loads of candy burnt caramel and heat spice in every fluffy chunk. The tangy cream cheese frosting compliments the gingerbread completely!
• One of the best cream cheese frosting. Talking of frosting, I make the white chocolate cream cheese frosting with a field of white chocolate prompt pudding combine. It’s a game-changer. The feel of the frosting is silky easy and it tastes prefer it got here from a bakery.
• Excellent for the vacations. If vacation cheer was a dessert, it might be a frosted gingerbread cupcake. They’re tremendous festive and straightforward to customise, you’ll be able to beautify them any manner that you just like.

Components You’ll Want

These are some notes on the necessary components on this gingerbread cupcakes recipe. Scroll to the printable recipe card beneath the submit for the complete recipe measurements and particulars.

For the Cupcakes

• Flour – All-purpose is greatest.
• Baking Powder and Baking Soda – Examine the dates on the packaging to ensure your leavening is contemporary and never expired.
• Spices – Floor ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg, plus a pinch of salt. It’s also possible to substitute the person spices with pumpkin pie spice.
• Butter – Dropped at room temperature. You should use salted or unsalted butter.
• Brown Sugar – Darkish brown sugar provides these cupcakes a richer, caramelized taste. Mild brown sugar works in a pinch. It’s also possible to observe my tutorial on how to make brown sugar from granulated sugar.
• Molasses – I like to recommend common, medium, or darkish molasses for gingerbread. No matter you do, keep away from blackstrap molasses, which is much too bitter.
• Egg – Additionally at room temperature.

For the Frosting

• Instantaneous Pudding – I exploit one 3.5-ounce field of white chocolate prompt pudding combine. You would additionally use vanilla prompt pudding.
• Milk – Be sure it’s chilly from the fridge.
• Powdered Sugar – Additionally referred to as confectioner’s sugar or icing sugar.
• Cream Cheese – You’ll wish to use a block of plain, full-fat cream cheese (not the sort that is available in tubs).
• Cool Whip – Thawed beforehand.

The way to Make Gingerbread Cupcakes

The cream cheese frosting for these cupcakes wants to sit back for about an hour within the fridge earlier than you utilize it, so ensure to funds your time accordingly. I’ll typically get the frosting within the fridge first after which get began on the gingerbread cupcakes, or I’ll chill the frosting whereas the cupcakes cool to room temperature. It’s as much as you! 

Right here’s a fast take a look at the recipe steps, and you’ll discover printable directions within the recipe card on the backside of the submit.

Recipe Suggestions

• Don’t overmeasure. It’s necessary to measure components like flour accurately, in any other case it adjustments the result of the cupcakes. Spoon the flour into the measuring cup, and stage off the highest with the again of a knife (somewhat than scooping instantly from the bag). Even higher, use a kitchen scale!
• Alternate including the dry components with the new water. Sizzling water makes the cupcake batter simpler to combine and prevents lumps. Be sure so as to add the flour combination somewhat at a time, including scorching water in between, beginning and ending with the dry combination.
• Don’t overfill the cupcake liners. I like to recommend filling every cupcake liner not more than ⅔ full. If you happen to’re utilizing a smaller pan, intention for ¾ full. If you happen to fill the liners too excessive, the gingerbread cupcakes would possibly overflow and/or deflate within the oven.

Extra Adorning Concepts

There’s multiple option to beautify a Christmassy gingerbread cupcake!

• Completely different frosting. These gingerbread cupcakes would additionally style nice frosted with vanilla buttercream, heritage frosting, or Swiss meringue buttercream.
• Cookie garnishes. Prime the frosted cupcakes with mini gingerbread males or broken-up gingersnaps. 
• Add sprinkles. Brighten up these cupcakes with festive vacation sprinkles. Attempt a crimson, white, and inexperienced Christmas combine or gold balls (dragees).
• Caramel drizzle. End every frosted cupcake with a drizzle of microwave caramel sauce. Simply guarantee that the caramel is cool earlier than you drizzle it in order that it doesn’t soften the frosting.

The way to Retailer

• Refrigerate. The frosted gingerbread cupcakes might be saved coated and hermetic within the fridge for as much as 3 days. It’s also possible to retailer the unfrosted cupcakes and frost them earlier than serving.
• Freeze. The baked, unfrosted cupcakes might be frozen in a freezer bag or hermetic container for as much as 1 month. Thaw them within the fridge or at room temperature.