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Easy and sweet gingerbread cupcakes with a gingerbread sponge, ginger buttercream frosting, and the cutest decoration! Perfect Christmas cupcakes. <\/h2>\n

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Gingerbread<\/h3>\n

Ohhhhh HELLO to my first Christmas recipe of 2021\u2026 GINGERBREAD CUPCAKES! Yes, that is right, I thought I would start off with an absolute bang and do something that I get requests for over and over all of the time\u2026 this beauty of a recipe. <\/span><\/p>\n

I have many gingerbread recipes on my blog such as my gingerbread loaf cake<\/a>, my gingerbread millionaires shortbread<\/a>, and my gingerbread trifle<\/a> just to name a few\u2026 but cupcakes? Cupcakes are where it is at as they are easy, simple and delicious. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Sponge <\/h3>\n

A gingerbread cake is meant to be denser, fudgier in a way and just absolutely perfect for the colder weather\u2026 and these gingerbread cupcakes emulate that exactly. The cake is not your average sponge cake with spices added in, it\u2019s just on its own little level. <\/span><\/p>\n

This sponge uses butter, dark brown soft sugar, golden syrup, and black treacle melted together in a pan – this bit is important as it makes sure that everything will incorporate really well. I use dark brown soft sugar and black treacle as I want the deep flavour, but these can be switched to light brown soft sugar and just golden syrup if needed. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Flour and spices<\/h3>\n

The mixture uses self-raising flour in comparison to plain flour as the raising agent comes in handy for cupcakes – and I love it slightly lighter in cupcake form. But don\u2019t worry, because of the ingredients mentioned earlier on, you still get a deep texture on these beauties. <\/span><\/p>\n

The spices I use in my gingerbread cupcakes are simple ground ginger and ground cinnamon. Yes, they are \u2018gingerbread\u2019 but gingerbread spices aren\u2019t always just ground ginger. You can even add in a little nutmeg you wanted, but honestly, if you don\u2019t like cinnamon, you can just add in a smidge more ground ginger instead. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Eggs and milk<\/h3>\n

In contrast to a victoria sponge where the dry ingredients should match the weight of eggs in their shells, you don\u2019t need nearly as much egg here. I only use two medium eggs for these – and it’s perfect. You do, however, use a reasonable amount of milk. <\/span><\/p>\n

The milk is a key part of these gingerbread cupcakes, and cannot be left out. It is also important to use whole milk, and not semi skimmed or skimmed. I stand by this – for the best bake, you need to use full fat ingredients (like I always say!) so it is worth buying it. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Frosting<\/h3>\n

For the frosting, I went for a ginger flavoured buttercream frosting – because why not?! It\u2019s the dream of dreams. The ground ginger in the buttercream creates an ever so slightly less sweet topping, but something that marries SO well with the gingerbread cupcake sponge still. <\/span><\/p>\n

I always believe in doing what you want when it comes to flavours, and whilst the chemistry behind the ratios of ingredients, types of ingredients etc need to stay the same, the flavouring can change. Use less or more ground ginger, use more cinnamon, use a little mixed spice\u2026 do what you want to do! <\/span><\/p>\n

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Decoration<\/h3>\n

As always, for the decoration, I used my favourite piping tip<\/a> because I wanted the most beautiful swirl\u2026 and this piping tip<\/a> is by far my favourite one to use, and has been for a good while. I also use these piping bags<\/a> because I find them so good to use, and easy to hold. <\/span><\/p>\n

I found these cute gingerbread sprinkles<\/a>, and these larger gingerbread person toppers<\/a> for the cupcakes – but obviously these are not entirely essential – I just think they are so so cute and I am slightly in love. <\/span>I hope you guys love these gingerbread cupcakes as much as I do – enjoy! x<\/span><\/p>\n

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Easy and sweet gingerbread cupcakes with a gingerbread sponge, ginger buttercream frosting, and the cutest decoration! Perfect Christmas cupcakes.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n