Cupcakes with delicious gingerbread spices. Topping this gingerbread classic flavor is a spiced buttercream frosting.
Gingerbread Cupcakes
Gingerbread is a popular flavor in the Fall and Winter months and it's especially loved in adorably decorated gingerbread men. Much like the well-known cookies, these cupcakes are made with the classic flavors found around Thanksgiving and Christmas time.
With the spices of ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon, these cupcakes are comforting, heart-warming, and absolutely delicious.
It's incredibly easy to make these cupcakes! The melted butter and molasses keep these cupcakes moist from start to finish.
Once all the ingredients are combined, the water is slowly added to blend into the mixture. This recipe makes 12 cupcakes and it's a good idea to either line the muffin tin with cupcake liners or grease the cavities well.
The batter gets equally distributed among all 12 cavities and filled to the rim. This will produce beautiful and tall cupcakes.
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Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting
Cream cheese pairs wonderfully with gingerbread and even more so when it's spiced with the flavor of cloves. A little bit of cloves goes a long way to produce lots of flavor. There is only half of a teaspoon of ground cloves in this cream cheese frosting and it's so good!
Always start with room temperature ingredients when making a cream cheese or buttercream frosting. That way, you aren't stuck in the kitchen trying to break down small bits of cream cheese or butter.
Working with chilled or cold ingredients will make it harder to pipe as well because of the small bits and lumps of the ingredients not creating a smooth and creamy frosting.
Make these Cupcakes into Pumpkin Gingerbread Cupcakes
By adding one simple ingredient to this mix and additional spices in the cream cheese frosting, you can turn these already delicious cupcakes into pumpkin gingerbread cupcakes.
It's a great and tasty way to spruce up these already flavorful cupcakes by adding real pumpkin to the batter!
📖 Recipe
Gingerbread Cupcakes
Ingredients
Pumpkin Gingerbread Cupcakes
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- 2 teaspoon ground ginger
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ cup unsalted butter - melted
- ½ cup brown sugar - packed
- ½ cup molasses
- ½ cup water
Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting
- 8 oz cream cheese - softened
- ½ cup unsalted butter - softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves
- 4 cups confectioner's sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
Instructions
Pumpkin Gingerbread Cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line a muffin tin with 12 liners. Alternatively, you can grease the muffin tin well.
- Beat together the melted butter, molasses, and brown sugar.
- Add in the egg and beat until mixed.
- Add in the baking soda, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt.
- Beat in the flour and add the water into the mixture.
- Use the batter to fill up the muffin cavities all the way.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 18 minutes and remove from oven and allow to cool completely for 20 minutes before frosting.
Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting
- Beat together the softened cream cheese and softened butter.
- Add in the vanilla extract and ground cloves
- Beat in the confectioner's sugar a little at a time and add the 1 tablespoon of milk to cream it together.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is an estimate based on third-party calculations. Actual values may vary due to ingredients, measurements, and serving sizes.
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Sonia says
Hi Dana,
I’m in the middle of making your wonderful cupcakes....just have one question.
In the directions, it says to add the egg to the sugar, molasses and butter, but I don’t see eggs in the ingredient list.
I’ll follow the directions and add one egg, I’d love to have your advice for next time.. Hopefully, all will turn out awesome!
Thanks!
Dana says
Oops! Yes Sonia, that is correct! I added the egg in the ingredient list - sorry about that! Hope you enjoy the cupcakes!
Joyce says
Where is the pumpkin? I don’t see it on the ingredient list. How much pumpkin should be added to make pumpkin gingerbread muffins?
Dana says
Hi Joyce, The Pumpkin Gingerbread Cupcakes are found here: https://mamaneedscake.com/pumpkin-gingerbread-cupcakes/
Sharon says
So delicious! I made this recipe without the cloves due to a picky eater in the house but besides that they were fantastic. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Natalie says
These cupcakes look like a perfect addition to my Sunday dinner table. Thanks for sharing the recipe. I can't wait to try this!
Swathi says
Gingerbread cupcakes looks delicious perfect holiday treat.