Description
You will love this Gingerbread Cupcakes With Molasses Cream Cheese Frosting recipe! They are a crowd-pleasing, sweet holiday treat.
Ingredients
Scale
Gingerbread Cupcake Ingredients:
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 2 Tbsp. ground ginger
- 2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. ground cloves
- 1 (8 Tbsp.) stick unsalted butter, melted
- 1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 3/4 cup molasses
- 1 1/2 cups water
Molasses Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients:
- 1 lb (2 blocks) cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, at room temperature
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 8 cups powdered sugar, sifted
Instructions
To Make Gingerbread Cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 24 muffin tins with paper liners or spray with nonstick cooking spray.
- Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon and cloves into a medium bowl.
- Whisk together the melted butter, brown sugar, eggs, and molasses in a large bowl until blended. Add some of the water to batter then some of the dry ingredients to the batter. Continue alternating with the water and flour until everything is added and smooth.
- Fill each paper liner with 1/3 cup of the batter, about 1/4-inch below the top of the liner.
- Place into preheated oven and bake just until the tops feel firm and a toothpick inserted into the center come out clean, about 15 to 18 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool to room temperature. Frost with molasses cream cheese frosting.
To Make Molasses Cream Cheese Frosting:
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the cream cheese and butter on medium-high speed until well combined and smooth, about 1 minute. Mix in the molasses and vanilla extract. Gradually add in powdered sugar to reach desired frosting thickness, beating until smooth.
Notes
These would also be good with crystallized ginger mixed in! Just substitute 1/3 cup crystallized ginger in place of the ground ginger in the cupcakes.
Cupcake recipe adapted from Bobbie Flay.
these look beautiful and delicious! now I need to run out for more molasses to make them for my Christmas Eve dessert!
Gingerbread is my favorite – yum!!!
Not only do they sound wonderful they look gorgeous!
The amount of sugar in the frosting scares me a little :) But this sure looks delicious!
Oh Lord! Talk about decadent! These cupcakes look delicious.
Oh wow, molasses cream cheese frosting sounds incredible!
having just made your snickers cheesecake, which will be enjoyed this evening, I know you know what you are talking about. I haven’t ever tried King Arthur before, but would love to.
these cupcakes were SO GOOD. a huge hit. thanks for bringing them!!
Thanks for the recipe. In the frosting recipe you refer to “1/4 c unsulfered” … is this molasses?
I’m not a big fan of cream cheese but I’m a huge fan of all things gingerbread (and molasses!). Yum!! And aren’t those sprinkles just the cutest? I never got around to using mine this year.
I can smell them thru my screen!! I bet these were amazing!
Love the gingerbread man sprinkles! These look and sound deliscious!!
Hi .. What is unsulfered in the frosting ingredients ? .. thanks
These cupcakes will be great idea for upcoming Christmas season. I love those cute little sprinkles. I’m delighted with these cupcakes. I’ve featured this recipes on my blog! I hope you don’t mind! If you don’t agree with that please contact me and I will remove it. All the best.
Love this recipe…looks delicious! I love cream cheese frosting, too!
Hi there! 3 1/2 cups of flour for a dozen cupcakes seems to be a bit much. Is this a typo or does the recipe really require that much flour?
Made these and brought to work today,everyone rave about them. One girl told me it was the best cupcake she had ever tasted, she also said she would pay $10 to eat one.
thanks what a great recpie .
I only use 4 cups of sugar in the frosting and it came out great.
Thanks for sharing with us Maureen, what an amazing compliment! :D We’re so glad these were a success!
Looks great. Will make tonight
We hope you enjoyed them, Sandy!
Hi! this look amazing :) can I replace molasses with something else? Maybe maple syrup?
Thank you, Aga, we hope you enjoy them! We haven’t experimented with anything other than molasses in this. You could try maple syrup and it might work, but it is much thinner than molasses, and sweeter, so we feel like it would through the recipe off.
A nice recipe to follow. I’m going to make some. They look good. Yum yum.