Add molasses and egg beat until the mixture is smooth. Add 1/2 stick of the butter and granulated sugar in bowl and beat until mixture is pale and fluffy.Add flour, the ground ginger, the cinnamon, the cloves, the allspice, and the salt in a bowl and sifc.
The original cupcake baker instructions plus#
1/2 stick (1/4 cup) plus 2 tablespoons unsalted butter.Line wells of cupcake pan with paper liners. Makes 12 cupcakes | Preparation: Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Gingerbread Cupcakes with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting For more Starbucks holiday drinks turned cupcake? Click here for my Peppermint Mocha Cupcakes.Every cupcake that I’ve made that requires either hot milk, hot coffee, hot water-a hot liquid of any kind always yields a moist cupcake. Want to know the key to a moist cupcake? Hot liquids-or so it seems.To decorate the cupcakes, I used a round tip for the the first layer and then rimmed it with crushed gingerbread cookies and then used Wilton’s 2D tip for a ruffled frosting layer and topped it with a gingerbread cookie.The original recipe finishes the cupcakes with crystallized ginger, but I opted for what you see in the picture.The original recipe also calls for cloves, but I subbed it for cardamom-since I’m not a fan of cloves. I subbed out the boiling water for very hot coffee to give it the latte profile. The base recipe I used is Epicurious’ Gingerbread Cupcakes.To right that wrong, I decided to get mixing and flip my holiday kick start into a cupcake.And as I have mentioned before, goodness can always be found between the pleats of a cupcake liner. Yes, I’m still a bit bitter that I spent nearly five dollars on a drink that completely disappointed. I’m not sure if Starbucks changed the formula, but it was overly sweet and artificial tasting-like a stinky bathroom candle. This year my holiday kick start tasted like a hot cup of potpourri. But during the holidays I usually kick start it with a Starbucks Gingerbread Latte and then rotate it with Peppermint Mocha.
Most days I’m a black coffee consumer with a few sugars added to it. A few weeks ago, I ordered a gingerbread latte from Starbucks to kick my holiday mood into high gear.