Spiced Gingerbread Mini Cupcakes
- Level: Easy
- Yield: 24 mini cupcakes
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- Nutritional Analysis
- Per Serving
- Serving Size
- 1 of 24 servings
- Calories
- 141
- Total Fat
- 8
- Saturated Fat
- 5
- Carbohydrates
- 17
- Dietary Fiber
- 0
- Sugar
- 12
- Protein
- 1
- Cholesterol
- 28
- Sodium
- 65
- Total: 1 hr 15 min (includes cooling time)
- Active: 25 min
Ingredients
Spiced Gingerbread Cupcakes:
Nonstick cooking spray, for the muffin tin
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon fine salt
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup molasses
1/4 cup sour cream
1 large egg
Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting:
3 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 teaspoon freshly grated lemon zest, plus more for decoration, optional
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups confectioner’s sugar, sifted
Yellow sprinkles and sliced crystallized ginger, for decoration, optional
Directions
- For the spiced gingerbread cupcakes: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 24-cup mini muffin tin with cooking spray.
- Stir together the flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl.
- Whisk the melted butter, granulated sugar, molasses, sour cream and egg in a large bowl until smooth. Add the flour mixture and whisk just to combine. Divide the mixture among the muffin cups.
- Bake until puffed and a tester in the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 13 to 15 minutes. Cool in the tin for about 10 minutes, then use an offset spatula to ease them out and completely cool.
- For the lemon cream cheese frosting. Combine the cream cheese and butter in a medium bowl. Beat until smooth and fluffy, about 1 minute. Beat in the lemon zest and vanilla. Add the confectioners' sugar and mix until smooth, then beat until light and fluffy, about 1 minute.
- Split the cooled cupcakes in half crosswise. Spread or pipe a little filling on the cut side of each cupcake bottom. Top with the cupcake tops. Spread or pipe the remaining frosting on top of the cupcakes and decorate as desired.