Gingerbread Cupcakes
Jan 10, 2025 01:44 PM
These homemade gingerbread cupcakes are soft, spiced, and bursting with holiday cheer. Each one gets topped with a swirl of the silkiest white chocolate cream cheese frosting. It’s the perfect treat for the holidays!
The festive season just ended, but I can’t wait to have these gingerbread cupcakes on repeat again! These soft, moist gingerbread cupcakes taste a lot like my soft-baked gingerbread cookies, flavored with caramelized brown sugar and a hint of molasses. Here’s what makes these fluffy gingerbread cupcakes so great:
Easy ingredients. Just about every ingredient in these cupcakes is a pantry staple, apart from maybe the molasses. Luckily, I had a jar left over from my last batch of molasses cookies! In any case, everything you need is easy to find in the grocery store.
They taste just like gingerbread! I love how close in flavor these homemade cupcakes are to classic gingerbread cookies. There’s plenty of sweet burnt caramel and warm spice in each fluffy bite. The tangy cream cheese frosting compliments the gingerbread perfectly!
The best cream cheese frosting. Speaking of frosting, I make the white chocolate cream cheese frosting with a box of white chocolate instant pudding mix. It’s a game-changer. The texture of the frosting is silky smooth and it tastes like it came from a bakery.
Perfect for the holidays. If holiday cheer was a dessert, it would be a frosted gingerbread cupcake. They’re super festive and easy to customize, you can decorate them any way that you like.
Ingredients:
For the Cupcakes
- 1 1/4 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/4 cup butter (4 Tbsp), room temp
- 1/3 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup very hot water
For the Frosting
- 1 box white chocolate instant pudding (3.5 oz box – 4 servings)
- 1 cup cold milk
- 1/3 cup powdered sugar
- 4 oz cream cheese
- 8 oz tub Cool Whip, thawed
Prep Time:
25 minutes
Cook Time:
18 minutes
Total Time:
43 minutes
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