We love all things gingerbread! Some of our other gingerbread recipes are How to Make a Gingerbread House, Soft & Chewy Molasses Cookies, and Soft & Chewy Gingerbread Men Cookies! I’m starting a new thing I’m calling “Reader Requests.” For the past few weeks, I’ve had a survey up on some of my most popular blog posts and have been collecting feedback from visitors to my site. One of the questions where I asked readers if they had any specific recipes they would like to see on the blog has been eye-opening for me and inspired me to start this new series. Guys, I’m seriously blown away by the responses! There have been so many great ideas (some that were already on my radar and others that I hadn’t even thought of) that I started compiling a spreadsheet to organize them and help me plan my calendar for next year! As much as I can, I will try to work my way through and give a shout-out to the requester or requesters (some recipes have had multiple requests – I’m looking at you lasagna) when I share it. Stay tuned to see if I cover your request! To get things rolling, Carmen J. asked for more cupcake recipes (I’ve got s’mores cupcakes with graham cracker frosting and chocolate cupcakes, which, obviously that’s not enough because who doesn’t need more cupcakes in their life?!). And Christine P. specifically mentioned gingerbread cupcakes. Um, YES PLEASE! I adore gingerbread. Really I do. The warm spices and the deep rich molasses flavor get me every time. I think gingerbread men cookies are just the best, I’ve used gingerbread spices to make gingerbread whipped cream for crepes, and I love a good molasses cookie! One of these years I’m going to get around to sharing my favorite gingerbread cake with whipped cream and bananas, but for now, let’s talk gingerbread cupcakes!
How to Make Gingerbread Cupcakes
This recipe makes 12-14 cupcakes as written.
What Frosting to Use for Gingerbread Cupcakes
Speaking of frosting, I’ve got an AMAZING eggnog buttercream frosting recipe for you that I used to frost this batch of gingerbread cupcakes. Not to toot my own horn, but really, they were pretty phenomenal. I took these to a church Christmas party and had multiple people who were initially skeptical and said they didn’t like eggnog come up to me and say that it turns out they DO like eggnog in frosting form apparently. For the record, I also truly think that most people who say they don’t like eggnog have only tried store-bought eggnog, which is by and large no bueno. Do me a favor and make a batch of homemade eggnog and THEN tell me what you really think. I’m betting more than half of you will have a change of heart. But if you are truly skeeved out by eggnog, you could go with a classic vanilla buttercream, or (and I think this would be amazing and I want so desperately to try it but just haven’t had the time this season) make a batch of homemade rainbow chip frosting and color the chips red and green! (Seriously, I’m going to have to make that happen soon because I love, love, love gingerbread and white chocolate together!). I’m also very interested in the cinnamon cream cheese frosting that King Arthur Flour pairs with their gingerbread cupcake recipe. So many frostings, so little time. Sigh.
More Christmas Desserts That Aren’t Cookies
Sticky Toffee Pudding (soooooo good – my mom declared this her favorite dessert) Black Forest Cheesecake Cranberry Orange Pull-Apart Monkey Bread Old-Fashioned Divinity Candy Best Red Velvet Cake
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