Gingerbread Man Cupcakes
by Lili Forberg
12 people
15 minutes
15 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 250 ml Buttermilk
- 2 large Eggs
- 1 handfull Gingerbread Men , to decorate
- 50 g Gingernut Biscuits
- 200 g Granulated Sugar
- 0.5 tsp Ground Allspice
- 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
- 1 tsp Ground Ginger
- 2 tsp Ground Nutmeg
- 1 pinch Salt
- 270 g Self-Raising Flour
- 100 g Unsalted Butter
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 50 ml Vegetable Oil
FOR THE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
-
230
ml
Cream Cheese
, at room temperature
-
370
g
Icing Sugar
-
120
g
Unsalted Butter
, at room temperature
-
1
tsp
Vanilla Extract
Method
- Preheat fan oven to 180°C. In a bowl mix flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground ginger, cocoa powder and crushed ginger biscuits and set aside.
- In a separate bowl, whisk sugar and butter until pale and fluffy. Whisk in oil, vanilla, eggs (one at a time) and buttermilk.
- Fold in the flour mixture and mix gently. Divide mixture between 12 cupcake cases and bake at 180°C for 15 minutes.
- Leave to cool for at least 10 minutes. For the cream cheese frosting mix ingredients with a hand mixer until light and fluffy and pipe using a piping bag or a plastic bag. Decorate with a mini gingerbread man.
