Gingerbread Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

Gingerbread cupcakes topped with a brown sugar cream cheese frosting are just the thing for your holiday celebration.

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What could be more festive than these Gingerbread Cupcakes, especially when decorated with a fun gingerbread man?  The easy scratch cupcake recipe is topped with a Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting, which is also a simple to make recipe.  Everyone is sure to love them.

Make these delicious holiday cupcakes along with other gingerbread treats, such as my Gingerbread Muffins, Gingerbread Pie, Old Fashioned Gingerbread Loaf, or Chocolate Gingerbread Pound Cake.

Making Gingerbread Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting

Now it is time to make these homemade cupcakes and frosting.

Gingerbread Cupcakes

Start with the actual cupcake.

Ingredients You Will Need

• ½ cup Sugar
• ½ cup Butter softened
• ½ cup Molasses
• 2 Eggs
• 2 cup Flour
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• ½ teaspoon Salt
• 1 ½ teaspoon Ginger
• ½ teaspoon Cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon Allspice
• ¾ cup Water

Make Cupcakes

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Once the ingredients for the Gingerbread Cupcake batter are mixed well,  the batter is dolloped into paper liners in a muffin tin. They are baked & cooled.

Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting

Here is how to whip op the easy frosting.

Ingredients needed

• 8 oz Cream Cheese softened
• ¼ cup Butter
• 2 teaspoon Vanilla
• 1 cup Brown Sugar

Prepare the Frosting

The ingredients of Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting are simply whipped together, then piped onto the gingerbread cupcakes.  The cupcakes are then refrigerated for a ½ hour to set, and are ready to serve to your holiday guests.

Make these with one of my other favorite easy holiday treats, Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies, Tres Leches Cupcakes or Old Fashioned Molasses cookies .

Gingerbread Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting

Gingerbread Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting is an easy festive holiday recipe your guests and family will enjoy.

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: brown sugar cream cheese frosting, gingerbread cupcakes

Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 18 minutes minutes

Total Time: 33 minutes minutes

Servings: 18

Calories: 265kcal

Author: Mom Foodie Contributor

Ingredients

Gingerbread Cupcakes:

• ½ cup Sugar
• ½ cup Butter softened
• ½ cup Molasses
• 2 Eggs
• 2 cup Flour
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• ½ teaspoon Salt
• 1 ½ teaspoon Ginger
• ½ teaspoon Cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon Allspice
• ¾ cup Water

Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting:

• 8 oz Cream Cheese softened
• ¼ cup Butter
• 2 teaspoon Vanilla
• 1 cup Brown Sugar

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Instructions

• Heat oven to 350.
• Beat together sugar, butter, molasses, water and eggs on medium speed.
• Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon and allspice.
• Add dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mix until combined.
• Spoon about ¼ cup batter into each muffin cup.
• Bake 17-20 minutes, until toothpick pulls out clean.
• Allow to rest a couple minutes before moving to cooling racks.
• Beat cream cheese until smooth, scraping down sides as needed.
• Add butter and continue beating until mixture is blended and smooth.
• Add vanilla and brown sugar and beat for 5 minutes until sugar is dissolved and frosting is light and fluffy.
• Transfer icing to piping bag with star tip and frost tops of each cupcake.
• Refrigerate for 30 minutes to firm icing.

Notes

Gingerbread man cookie garnish optional, but fun..

Nutrition

Calories: 265kcal | Carbohydrates: 35g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 52mg | Sodium: 257mg | Potassium: 192mg | Sugar: 24g | Vitamin A: 430IU | Calcium: 49mg | Iron: 1.3mg