I decided to make Gingerbread cupcakes, with lemon flavoured buttercream. I haven't ever made them before, I usually make lemon, chocolate or vanilla cupcakes so it was fun to try something new.
The recipe is from Homemade Baking, which hosts 175 'old fashioned cake, cookie, muffin and cupcake recipes'. I have slightly edited the mixture, by adding in a bit more spice and taking out the fresh ginger and nutmeg as well as ground cloves.
Ingredients: 225g Plain Flour2 Teaspoons Baking Powder1 Teaspoon of Salt2 teaspoons Ground Ginger1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon1 teaspoon Ground Allspice125g Cooking Margarine or unsalted butter150g Soft Light Brown Sugar2 Eggs1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract125ml milk
This recipe makes 12 cupcakes.
1. Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and spices in a bowl.
2. Cream the margin and sugar together in a bowl, until pale and fluffy.
3. Add in the eggs, beating well, as well as the Vanilla Extract, 3/4 of the flour mixture and the milk.
4. Fold in the remaining flour mixture.
5. Spoon the mixture into cupcake cases.
6. Bake in a preheated oven (180 degrees fan) for about 20 minutes.
I then made a lemon buttercream, to go on top and some mini gingerbread hearts! Yum yum yum! The lemon buttercream was made as a usual buttercream and then adding fresh lemon juice and zest of 1 lemon. The gingerbread was a standard gingerbread recipe.
Have you been doing any christmas themed bakes over the festive period? x
