Gingerbread men cupcakes - recipe


Gingerbread men cupcakes

  • Prepare

  • Serves
    12

  • Cook

  • Skill
    Easy

4.6

Ingredients

For the cakes

For the buttercream

For the decoration

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  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C, gas mark 4) and line a muffin tin with 12 cupcake cases.

  2. 2

    Cream together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, then add the eggs one by one mixing after each one.

    For this step you'll need:

    • 250g Butter (unsalted) softened
    • 250g Unrefined golden caster sugar
    • 4 Egg(s) (free range) medium
  3. 3

    Sift together the flour and ground ginger and carefully fold into the mixture.

    For this step you'll need:

    • 250g Self-raising white flour
    • 1tsp Ginger (ground)
  4. 4

    Spoon the mixture into the paper cases until they are approx. ½ full. Then bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes until golden brown and a skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool.

  5. 5

    To make the buttercream mix together the butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy, then fill a piping bag and pipe swirls of buttercream onto the top of each cooled cake.

    For this step you'll need:

    • 500g Unrefined golden icing sugar
  6. 6

    Mix together some white and brown sugar paste icing until you get a gingerbread colour, then roll this out onto a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar until it is about 3-4mm thick.

    For this step you'll need:

    • 200g White sugar paste icing
    • 200g Brown/chocolate sugar paste icing
  7. 7

    Using a gingerbread man cutter cut out the shapes and leave to one side for about 20 minutes to firm up. You could decorate each gingerbread man with a red bow tie and some buttons using red sugar paste icing.

    For this step you'll need:

    • 50g Red sugar paste icing
  8. 8

    Carefully place the gingerbread men onto the top of each cupcake and serve

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