Best Gingerbread Cupcakes With Lemony Frosting Recipes

GINGERBREAD CUPCAKES WITH LEMONY FROSTING

Steps:

• Gingerbread Cupcakes:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a muffin pan with paper cupcake liners.
• Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and salt into a bowl and mix.
• Whisk the oil, molasses, maple syrup, soy milk, yogurt, and lemon zest in a separate large bowl. Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and mix just until smooth. Fold in the chopped crystallized ginger.
• Fill cupcake liners two-thirds full. Bake for 19 to 22 minutes, until a knife or toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Transfer to a cooling rack and let cool completely before frosting.
• Lemony Cream Cheese Frosting:
• Cream together margarine and cream cheese until just combined. Use a handheld mixer to whip while adding the confectioners' sugar in 1/2 cup batches. Mix until smooth and creamy, then in mix in the vanilla. Add the lemon zest. Keep tightly covered and refrigerated until ready to use.

GINGERBREAD CUPCAKES WITH LEMON CURD FILLING AND WHIPPED CREAM FROSTING RECIPE - (4.4/5)

Steps:

• Make the lemon curd filling: 1. Cream the butter and sugar in the smaller bowl of the stand mixer (with the whip attachment). 2. Mix in the eggs and then the lemon juice. (Mixture will look curdled.) 3. Transfer to a small pot and cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until thickened (about 15 minutes.) The curd should coat the back of a spoon and register 170 degrees F on a thermometer. Do not allow it to boil. 4. Remove from the heat and stir in the lemon zest. Transfer to a heat safe vessel, cover the surface with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until cooled. Make the gingerbread cupcakes: 5. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. 6. Place the flours, sugar, spices, baking soda, and salt in the larger bowl of the stand mixer, and mix on low speed (with the paddle attachment) to combine. 7. Add the cold, cubed butter, and continue to mix on low speed for 2-3 minutes, or until the mixture resembles bread crumbs. 8. Stir in the eggs until incorporated. Mixture will resemble cookie dough. 9. Add the Greek yogurt, molasses, and fresh ginger, and continue to mix until combined. Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl, and beat for about 90 seconds to aerate the batter and develop the cake's structure. 10. Fill each well of a paper-lined cupcake pan with 1/4 cup of batter, and bake for 20 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean. 11. Cool completely, fill with lemon curd, and top with whipped cream. Make the whipped cream: 12. Place 2 tablespoons heavy cream in a small bowl, and sprinkle the powdered gelatin over the surface. Allow to stand for 5 minutes. Stir gently and warm slightly in the microwave (about 15 seconds). Stir again to ensure that the gelatin has dissolved. Allow to cool slightly. 13. Place the remaining cream in the smaller bowl of the stand mixer, and whip on high speed (with the whip attachment), until slightly thickened. 14. Add the sugar, and continue to whip until the soft peak stage. 15. Add the cooled gelatin mixture and whip until the stiff peak stage. 16. Pipe onto Gingerbread Cupcakes, and sprinkle on chopped candied ginger for garnish.

GINGERBREAD CUPCAKES WITH LEMON CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Into a bowl sift together the flour, the ground ginger, the cinnamon, the cloves, the allspice, and the salt. In another bowl cream 1/2 stick of the butter, add the granulated sugar, and beat the mixture until it is fluffy. Beat in the molasses and the egg, beating until the mixture is smooth. In a measuring cup combine the baking soda with 1/2 cup boiling water and stir the mixture to dissolve the baking soda. Stir the mixture into the molasses mixture (the mixture will appear curdled) and stir the molasses mixture into the flour mixture, stirring to combine the ingredients well. Line twelve 1/2-cup muffin tins with paper liners and spoon the batter into the liners, filling them halfway. Bake the cupcakes in the middle of a preheated 350°F. oven for 20 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. (The cupcakes will be flat or slightly indented on top.) Transfer the cupcakes to a rack and let them cool.
• In a bowl cream together the cream cheese, and the remaining 2 tablespoons butter, add the confectioners' sugar and the vanilla, and beat the mixture until it is fluffy and smooth. Beat in the zest and the lemon juice and chill the frosting for 30 minutes. Spread the frosting on the cupcakes and top each cupcake with some of the crystallized ginger.

GINGERBREAD CUPCAKES WITH LEMON CREAM-CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Into a bowl sift together the flour, the ground ginger, the cinnamon, the cloves, the allspice, and the salt. In another bowl cream 1/2 stick of the butter, add the granulated sugar, and beat the mixture until it is fluffy.
• Beat in the molasses and the egg, beating until the mixture is smooth. In a measuring cup combine the baking soda with 1/2 cup boiling water and stir the mixture to dissolve the baking soda.
• Stir the mixture into the molasses mixture (the mixture will appear curdled) and stir the molasses mixture into the flour mixture, stirring to combine the ingredients well.
• Line twelve 1/2-cup muffin tins with paper liners and spoon the batter into the liners, filling them halfway. Bake the cupcakes in the middle of a preheated 350°F oven for 20 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. (The cupcakes will be flat or slightly indented on top.)
• Transfer the cupcakes to a rack and let them cool.
• In a bowl cream together the cream cheese, and the remaining 2 tablespoons butter, add the confectioners' sugar and the vanilla, and beat the mixture until it is fluffy and smooth.
• Beat in the zest and the lemon juice and chill the frosting for 30 minutes. Spread the frosting on the cupcakes and top each cupcake with some of the crystallized ginger.

GINGERBREAD CUPCAKES WITH LEMON ICING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 189C/gas 4 Line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases, or grease it. Put 100g butter, the molasses, sugar and golden syrup in a saucepan, heat gently, stiring until the butter has melted and the mixture is smooth. Remove from the heat and stir in the milk, set aside to cool.
• Sieve together the flour, spices and bicarbonate of soda in a bowl Stir in the stem ginger.
• Once the molasses mixture is cool, beat in the egg, then pour onto the dry ingredients. Fold in and stir with a spatula until smooth. Spoon into the cases so they are half full. Bake for about 15 minutes. Cool on a rack.
• To make the icing, beat the remaining 40 g butter in a large bowl or mixer, until light. Sieve in the icing sugar and beat to incorporate (it will not become smooth at this stage, but don't worry) Add the lemon juice gradually, beating in just enough to bring the mixture together smoothly. It should still be firm enough to hold its shape., Tansfer the icing to a piping bag fitted with a star-shaped nozzle and pipe swirls on top. Cut the crystallised ginger pieces into smaller bits and top the cakes with them.

GINGERBREAD CUPCAKES WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter or line with paper liners a 12-cup muffin tin.
• Cream 5 tablespoons of the butter with the white sugar. Add the molasses and the egg and egg yolk.
• Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg and salt. Dissolve the baking soda in the hot milk. Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture and stir until just combined. Stir in the hot milk mixture. Pour the batter evenly into the prepared tin.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 20 minutes or until slightly springy to the touch. Allow to cool a few minutes in the pan and remove to a rack to cool.
• To Make Frosting: Cream the 2 tablespoons butter and the cream cheese together. Beat in the confectioners' sugar until fluffy. Add the lemon extract and beat. When the cupcakes are cool, frost the tops with the frosting and serve.

GINGERBREAD CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F. Place Reynolds Baking Cups in each of 18 regular-size muffin cups.
• In large bowl, beat granulated sugar, 1/2 cup butter, the molasses and eggs with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, the allspice and water. Spoon about 1/4 cup batter into each muffin cup.
• Bake 15 to 18 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes; remove from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, in medium bowl, beat cream cheese, 1/4 cup butter, the lemon peel, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and the vanilla with electric mixer on low speed until smooth. Gradually beat in powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, on low speed until smooth. Beat in milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, until spreadable.
• Pipe or spread a generous amount of frosting on top of each cupcake. Store covered in refrigerator.