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 comfortable, moist gingerbread cupcakes style quite a bit 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 elements. Nearly each ingredient in these cupcakes is a pantry staple, aside from perhaps the molasses. Fortunately, I had a jar left over from my final batch of molasses cookies! In any case, the whole lot you want is straightforward to seek out within the grocery retailer.
• They style identical to gingerbread! I really like how shut in taste these do-it-yourself cupcakes are to traditional 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!
• The most effective cream cheese frosting. Talking of frosting, I make the white chocolate cream cheese frosting with a field of white chocolate immediate 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 will be a frosted gingerbread cupcake. They’re tremendous festive and straightforward to customise, you may enhance them any approach that you simply like.

Components You’ll Want

These are some notes on the vital elements on this gingerbread cupcakes recipe. Scroll to the printable recipe card beneath the publish for the complete recipe measurements and particulars.

For the Cupcakes

• Flour – All-purpose is greatest.
• Baking Powder and Baking Soda – Test the dates on the packaging to verify your leavening is contemporary and never expired.
• Spices – Floor ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg, plus a pinch of salt. You too can substitute the person spices with pumpkin pie spice.
• Butter – Dropped at room temperature. You need to use salted or unsalted butter.
• Brown Sugar – Darkish brown sugar provides these cupcakes a richer, caramelized taste. Mild brown sugar works in a pinch. You too can comply with 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 immediate pudding combine. You might additionally use vanilla immediate pudding.
• Milk – Ensure that it’s chilly from the fridge.
• Powdered Sugar – Additionally known as confectioner’s sugar or icing sugar.
• Cream Cheese – You’ll wish to use a block of plain, full-fat cream cheese (not the type that is available in tubs).
• Cool Whip – Thawed beforehand.

Make Gingerbread Cupcakes

The cream cheese frosting for these cupcakes wants to relax for about an hour within the fridge earlier than you utilize it, so be sure that to finances your time accordingly. I’ll generally 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 have a look at the recipe steps, and you’ll discover printable directions within the recipe card on the backside of the publish.

Recipe Ideas

• Don’t overmeasure. It’s vital to measure elements like flour appropriately, in any other case it adjustments the end result of the cupcakes. Spoon the flour into the measuring cup, and degree off the highest with the again of a knife (slightly than scooping instantly from the bag). Even higher, use a kitchen scale!
• Alternate including the dry elements with the recent water. Scorching water makes the cupcake batter simpler to combine and prevents lumps. Ensure that so as to add the flour combination somewhat at a time, including sizzling 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. For those who’re utilizing a smaller pan, intention for ¾ full. For those who 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 enhance a Christmassy gingerbread cupcake!

• Totally different frosting. These gingerbread cupcakes would additionally style nice frosted with vanilla buttercream, heritage frosting, or Swiss meringue buttercream.
• Cookie garnishes. High the frosted cupcakes with mini gingerbread males or broken-up gingersnaps. 
• Add sprinkles. Brighten up these cupcakes with festive vacation sprinkles. Strive 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.

Retailer

• Refrigerate. The frosted gingerbread cupcakes could be saved lined and hermetic within the fridge for as much as 3 days. You too can retailer the unfrosted cupcakes and frost them earlier than serving.
• Freeze. The baked, unfrosted cupcakes could be frozen in a freezer bag or hermetic container for as much as 1 month. Thaw them within the fridge or at room temperature.