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Gingerbread Cupcakes

3.12.12 By Annie N

Gingerbread Cupcakes

It’s December!! My kitchen now constantly smells of mint, cranberries, ginger, nutmeg, cloves… you name it, my kitchen smells of it! I’m stupidly excited about all of my holiday baking and have barely been out of the kitchen, which unfortunately means I haven’t been doing an awful lot of Uni work…

I’m at that point where I’ve had enough and I’m so fed up I just can’t be bothered. It will get done, but not until tomorrow.

Now, I may love Christmas, but I don’t love busy shops. We went to the supermarket yesterday and it was awful. It was so busy you could barely move and there were loads of people ambling round like we all have all day to do our shopping, when in actual fact we don’t. Then there are the noisy amblers, who amble randomly down aisles they don’t need and then speak really loudly about the products, picking them up then telling everybody within ear shot some story about the particular products, basically getting in the way… JUST MOVE, I need some Marmite and I don’t want to stand there looking and feeling it for 10 hours!

I’m a woman on a mission in the supermarket, I’m in and out as quickly as possible, I have a list, I know exactly what I want and I go straight to it. It becomes quite funny when you come across another person like this. Trolley collisions become frequent as we’re all shooting down aisles like a gust of wind. My boyfriend was nearly punted straight up another aisle as someone whizzed out of an aisle! He was miserable and glaring, which there’s no need for either so I may have called him something not very nice…

I will now only be going shopping in the dead of the night when sensible people are at home in the warm, so I can get my shopping done in peace and I’ll be avoiding town like the plague. After 1st December town becomes off limits. If I need anything, I’ll just order it online, much better for my stress levels. πŸ™‚

So yes, I’m incredibly festive and love Christmas, but only at home. I can’t wait to go and buy our Christmas tree on the 15th. No point in buying it now as it will be half dead and just a few stalks by Christmas day. I love decorating the tree, it feels properly like Christmas when the tree is up, we got some new decorations in the sales last year so I’m excited to finally use them!

Mind you before the tree goes up, we have to have a domestic in Homebase about which tree we should get and then we have to decide where to move the table to so we can fit the tree in…

Oh well, it will look pretty when it’s up πŸ™‚

Since it’s nearly Christmas I decided to make Gingerbread Cupcakes because it’s not Christmas without Gingerbread OK? These turned out beautifully, a richly spiced dense cake with a smooth cream cheese frosting. Yum is the only work I can use to sum them up.

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Makes 12

Recipe for the cupcakes adapted from Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes

Ingredients for the cupcakes:

> 3/4 cup plain flour
> 1tbsp ground ginger
> 1tsp ground cinnamon
> Pinch of ground nutmeg
> 1/8tsp ground cloves
> 1 1/2 sticks of butter (170g)
> 3/4 cup caster sugar
> 2 eggs
> 1/2tsp vanilla extract

Ingredients for the frosting:

> 125g full fat cream cheese (I used Philly)
> 50g unsalted butter, softened
> 300g icing sugar, sifted

Method:

> Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C and line your cupcake tray.
> Place the flour and all the spices in a medium sized bowl and stir together until combined.
> Place the butter and sugar in a large bowl or the bowl of your stand mixer.
> Beat until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
> Add in the eggs and vanilla and then mix until well combined.
> Add in the flour mix.
> Starting on a low speed, fold in the flour, then turn the mixer up to medium-high and mix until well incorporated and smooth.

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> Split the batter between the cupcakes cases, about 3/4 full.
> Place in the oven for 20-25 minutes until an inserted skewer comes out clean.
> Take out of the cupcake tray as soon as possible to stop the liners peeling away from the cakes and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
> Once cooled, make the frosting. This makes enough frosting to pipe the 12 cupcakes.
> Place the butter and cream cheese in a large bowl and cream together until light and fluffy about 2 minutes.
> Add in the sifted icing sugar and then mix until incorporated, start on a slow speed to avoid the icing sugar cloud!
> Fill a piping bag and pipe a swirl onto your cupcakes πŸ™‚
> Will keep in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days.

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Enjoy πŸ™‚

Entered into Thursday’s Treasures atΒ Recipes For My Boys

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Comments

  1. Patricia Hinkel says

    3.12.12 at 4:45 pm

    These look and sound delicious. Thank you for sharing.
    Pat

  2. AndiWinslow says

    3.12.12 at 11:53 pm

    Hi I just made Gingerbread Cupcakes this past weekend. Very good so nice idea we both had andi

  3. Jennifer Hicks says

    4.12.12 at 6:07 am

    Gingerbread cupcakes sound fantastic, pinning this!

  4. london bakes says

    4.12.12 at 2:08 pm

    I've been planning to make gingerbread cupcakes for ages – you're so right, it's not Christmas without gingerbread! These look really delicious.

  5. Annie Standing says

    4.12.12 at 4:48 pm

    Thank you, they were πŸ™‚

  6. Annie Standing says

    4.12.12 at 4:50 pm

    Brilliant idea πŸ™‚ I'd never made them before, but definitely will again!

  7. Annie Standing says

    4.12.12 at 4:50 pm

    Thanks so much πŸ™‚

  8. Annie Standing says

    4.12.12 at 4:51 pm

    Thank you πŸ™‚ I kept writing lists of things to bake and they kept coming up on it, but didn't get round to it until now! So glad I made them now though πŸ™‚

  9. Pam Fields says

    4.12.12 at 11:46 pm

    These look so amazing!!! Pinned and making ASAP!!!

  10. Cynthia Landrie says

    7.12.12 at 9:59 pm

    First off let me say, as soon as I read Marmite, I knew you were English! Hello there across the pond. I have some good friends in Australia and one of them sent me some Vegemite! I will say, it is not my favorite!
    I love the way you describe your kitchen. I can almost smell it!
    This recipe looks so good. We love gingerbread in our house and I will have to give these a try.

    Thank you for linking up to Foodie Friends Friday. I hope you will bring another wonderful recipe next week.

    Off to pin this! Cynthia at http://FeedingBig.com

  11. Annie Standing says

    8.12.12 at 11:44 am

    Thanks very much πŸ™‚ Enjoy!

  12. Annie Standing says

    8.12.12 at 11:47 am

    Haha I love my marmite! πŸ™‚ I love gingerbread, but this was the first time I'd ever made it, but it was so delicious, homemade is so much better than shop bought!

  13. Jill @Two Yellow Birds Decor says

    12.12.12 at 2:23 pm

    Those sound so yummy! What a fun treat! Thanks so much for sharing at Thursday's Temptation. I am going to be featuring your cupcakes tonight on my blog!
    Jill

  14. Annie Standing says

    12.12.12 at 4:49 pm

    Thank you so much! πŸ˜€

  15. Anonymous says

    13.7.13 at 3:41 am

    Good share of such great things. Will come to visit again.
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