Gingerbread Cupcake Fun Fest

Girlee and I had fun today assembling our Gingerbread Granny Cupcake.

Recipe

• 1 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon of nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon of ground cloves
• 1/8 teaspoon of ground allspice
• 1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1/2 cup (1 stick of unsalted butter)
• 1/4 cup of hot water
• 1/2 cup of packed dark brown sugar
• 1/2 cup of unsulphured molasses (not blackstrap)
• 3 large eggs, room temperature
• 1/4 cup of grated ginger
• if you like moist cupcake add 2 tbs apple sauce to mixture
  

Prep

• preheat oven at 350 degrees
• combine wets, but be careful of eggs don't want them cooking in the hot water
• combine dry
• add dry to wet mixture in parts
• add final mixture to muffin cups
• bake for 18-20 minutes

 Cool then Decorate like you want

Frosting Choices

• Lemon Cream Cheese is great
• Cream Cheese
• Chocolate
• Molasses Cream Cheese
• Mango Buttercream
  

We added Rudolph to top ours off .

Then Selah and I cut loose on these decorations!!