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Make up a Batch of Festive, Spicy, Homemade Gingerbread Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting for Your Next Party!

Cupcakes are a hit all year, so change it up this year for the holidays with this festive recipe for Gingerbread Cupcakes ! Spicy, moist, and perfect for a holiday party, these are simple to make and easy to eat. It's gingerbread combined with cream cheese frosting, so don't expect these to stick around long. Read on for directions on how to make the best homemade gingerbread cupcakes you can possibly make!

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Ingredients for Gingerbread Cupcakes

Only a few ingredients required for this holiday classic recipe!

cinnamonGingerbread cupcakes are incredibly easy to make. Once you make them, you'll want to have these delicious, moist cupcakes every year for your holiday parties. Here's a list of the ingredients you'll need to make them:

* 6 tablespoons unsalted softened butter
* 1/2 cup white sugar
* 1/2 cup unsulfured molasses
* 1 egg
* 1 egg yolk
* 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 tablespoon Cocoa powder
* 1 tablespoon ginger
* 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
* 1 teaspoon ground allspice
* 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/2 cup hot milk
* 2 tablespoons unsalted softened butter
* 2 ounces softened cream cheese 2/3 cup confectioners' sugar
* 1/4 teaspoon lemon extract

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Decorate Your Gingerbread cupcakes!

You can make your cupcakes a little more interesting by adding sprinkles, colored icing, cinnamon, nutmeg, and colored wrappers. Kids love this part.

Gingerbread Themed Apparel

Show your love for this festive holiday treat!

Wear a gingerbread themed t-shirt for the holiday season, while your making these delicious treats, or give one as an ideal gift for the holidays.
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Gingerbread Recipes Cookbook

More homemade gingerbread recipes

If you're a gingerbread lover, then you probably can't wait until the holidays to have some. There's nothing wrong with gingerbread in July! It's just as delicious then. Gingerbread rum cakes, gingerbread houses, and 60 other gingerbread recipes can be found in this all inclusive cookbook.
Gingerbread

Gingerbread

by: Jennifer Lindner McGlinn

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* 60 delicious gingerbread recipes
* Authored by Jennifer Lindner McGlinn, a pastry chef and food writer
* Recipes like gingerbread poundcake, marbled almond gingerbread loaf cake, rich and chocolate gingerbread cake, and apple butter gingerbread cake

Directions for Gingerbread Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

How to make gingerbread cupcakes

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter or line with paper liners a 12 muffin tin.

2. Cream 5 tablespoons of the butter with the white sugar. Add the molasses and the egg and the egg yolk.
Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and salt.

gingerbread cupcakes dry mixture



3. Dissolve the baking soda in the hot milk. Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture and stir until just combined. Stir in the hot milk mixture. Pour the batter evenly into the prepared muffin tin.

milk and baking soda mixture



4. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until lightly springy to the touch. Cool in the pan and move to a rack.

cook the gingerbread cupcakes


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5. To make frosting: Cream the 2 tablespoons butter and cream cheese, beat in confectioners sugar until fluffy. Add the lemon extract. Wait until the cupcakes are cool, then frost.

cream cheese frosting mix

Silicone Baking Pans Make Baking Gingerbread Cupcakes Much Easier

An easy way to make perfect cupcakes

Silicone makes baking way easier. It cooks much easier, and the muffins/cupcakes come out of the tray much easier. Give these a try!

what the gingerbread cupcakes look like when they're done

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Everything Gingerbread - Molds, Cutter, Houses and Premades

Some of the best gingerbread making stuff

Gingerbread is an awesome comfort food. Spicy, moist, and incredibly easy, they're best enjoyed warm, and freshly frosted. Here are some tools to help you make great gingerbread cookies, cakes, and if you're not in the mood to cook, Dancing Deer's awesome gingerbread cake.
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Gingerbread Molds

Make your own gingerbread with easy to use cooking molds

A cooking mold will give your cake a shape that's beyond the normal everyday cake shape. Try one of these great gingerbread pans available at a great price:
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Before you serve these homemade cupcakes...

These are best served at room temperature. Cold air tends to dry out these deserts quickly, so try to avoid very cold temperatures.

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Gingerbread cupcakes - the finished product! 

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Holiday Drink Recipes

Here's a few holiday drink recipes in the form of lattes and cappuccinos:

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The Pan I Used to Bake These 

It's silicone - makes a virtually foolproof cupcake every time!

HIC Brands that Cook Essentials Silicone 12-Cup Muffin Pan

HIC Brands that Cook Essentials Silicone 12-Cup Muffin Pan

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They pop right out of the silicone bakeware, and they're virtually impossible to burn in these. They also taste great and are safe to use. It makes baking MUCH easier.

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