Gingerbread Man Cupcakes

Gingerbread Cookies Gingerbread Cookies

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

  1. 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.
  2. In a separate bowl, whisk sugar and butter until pale and fluffy. Whisk in oil, vanilla, eggs (one at a time) and buttermilk.
  3. Fold in the flour mixture and mix gently. Divide mixture between 12 cupcake cases and bake at 180°C for 15 minutes.
  4. 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.
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