Gingerbread Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

A perfectly fun and festive Gingerbread Cupcake! Tender, fluffy cake is brimming with well spiced, deep molasses flavor, then it’s finished with a rich, tangy cream cheese frosting. If you want to go all out finish them off with mini gingerbread men and Christmas sprinkles.

Gingerbread Cupcakes
Less than 10 days until Christmas! Are you ready for it? If you said yes you’re wrong, you haven’t made these cupcakes yet so once you do…then your ready for Christmas :).

These cupcakes have perfectly decadent flavor and they taste just like a gingerbread cookie!

Ingredients
Cupcakes

• 1 2/3 cups (234g) all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp ground ginger
• 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp ground cloves
• 1/2 cup (116g) packed light brown sugar
• 1/4 cup (56g) unsalted butter, softened
• 1/4 cup (60ml) vegetable oil
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 cup (120ml) unsulphured molasses
• 1/2 cup (120ml) milk
• Mini gingerbread men for decoration (optional)

Frosting

• 8 oz (225g) cream cheese, nearly at room temperature
• 1/2 cup (114g) unsalted butter, nearly at room temperature
• 3 cups (370g) powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions
For the cupcakes:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a muffin tin with cupcake liners and lightly spray liners and top of pan with non-stick cooking spray. 
2. In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves, set aside.
3. In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment whip brown sugar and butter until pale and fluffy. 
4. Mix in vegetable oil then blend in eggs one at a time. Mix in molasses. 
5. Mix in flour mixture in 3 additions alternating with 2 additions of milk between (mix just until combined after each addition).
6. Scrape down sides and bottom of bowl and fold batter.
7. Divide mixture among 12 paper lined muffin cups filling each 2/3 full. 
8. Bake in preheated oven until toothpick inserted into center of cupcake comes out clean, about 19 - 22 minutes.
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For full instructions please see : www.cookingclassy.com

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