Festive Gingerbread Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
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Serves: 36
 
Spiced Gingerbread Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting are a delicious way to celebrate the season!
Ingredients
Cupcake Ingredients
  • 10 Tbs unsalted butter, soft
  • 1 cup unsulphered Original molasses
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 2½ c all purpose flour
  • 2 Tbs Hershey's Cocoa powder
  • 2½ tsp ginger
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp allspice
  • 1 tsp nutmeg
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 2 tsp baking soda (set aside!)
  • 1 c hot milk
Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients
  • 1 stick of butter at room temperature
  • 8 oz of Philedelphia cream cheese (cold)
  • 3 cups of powdered sugar
  • ½ tsp nutmeg, or cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
Instructions
Cupcakes
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Line 36 muffin tins with liners (or spray).
  3. Cream together the butter and sugar until light. Slowly beat in the molasses, mixing well.
  4. Add eggs and egg yolks one at a time beating lightly after each.
  5. Dissolve the baking soda in the hot milk, set aside.
  6. Sift together the flour, cocoa, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg and salt.
  7. Add to creamed butter mixture stiffing just until moistened. Stir in hot milk mixture.
  8. Evenly divide batter amongst muffin tins (a large ¼ c size pampered chef scooper works well for this, or use a scant ¼ cup measure).
  9. Bake muffins in preheated oven for 15 - 20 minutes until springy to touch. Remove from tins and cool on wire rack.
Frosting
  1. Beat the butter and cream cheese together on medium speed until very smooth and fluffy. Scrape down sides once or twice. Beat in the vanilla extract and nutmeg.
  2. Slowly beat in powdered sugar 1 cup at a time until you get desired sweetness and thickness. I beat mine on high speed for a couple minutes to make it fluffier. Chill in fridge for 10 minutes.
  3. Spread with knife or spatula, or use a piping bag to frost your cakes.
  4. Optional Ingredients
  5. Use either small Gingerbread man cookies, gumdrops or a Marshamallow Gingerbread in the center of each cupcake. Sprinkle with a pinch of raw sugar. Enjoy!
Recipe by A Hen's Nest - NW PA Single Woman Mom Blog at https://ahensnest.com/2010/12/festive-gingerbread-cupcakes-cream-cheese-frosting.html