X'mas Offering...Gingerbread Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

I have always wanted to know what gingerbread tastes like,I wasnt in the mood to make cookies, and I found this great recipe for gingerbread CUPCAKES. You can have it with or without the frosting. Tastes great either way.

Ingredients:
225 gm golden brown sugar
3 eggs, room temp.
225 gm flour
1 1/2 tbsp bak.powd.
2 1/2 tsp grated cinnamon or ground cinnamon
1 tsp fresly grated ginger
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp ground cardamom
salt
3/4 cup butter, melted
2/3 cup cream/milk
Optional: 1/4 cup brandy, whisky or rum.
Frosting:
12 oz(340gm) cream cheese Room temp
6 tsp unsaled butter, R.T
2/3 cup maple syrup/golden syrup
1 1/4 cup icicng sugar
Sprinkle od ground cinnamon

Method:

1. Line muffin tins. Preheat oven to 180 Degree C.
2. Whip sugar and eggs until foamy. Add the dry ingredients and gently sir.
3. Comine butter and cream and add slowly to the batter.
4. Bake for 20 -25 mins. Cool. 

• Combine cream cheese and butter in a bowl. Add the syrup and powdered sugar and mix.
• Frost the cupcakes.
• Sprinkle with cinnamon.
• Have a merry Xmas!!

Red Velvet

I made these nice Red Velvet Cupcakes...I dont have a picture, but for those of you who have no idea what it is...Check out Red Velvet Cake. Its the same thing, but the recipie for cupcake's slightly different. Well, mine came out dark orange velvet cake, because the red food colour was not fully red. It was orange red.
Its good with a Cream Cheese frosting and some red sprinkles. Its actually a Valentine day's Cake.
Now this recipie is a bit too much, so I used only half the quantity of Ingredients.
2 1/2 cups cake flour
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
2 sticks butter(1 cup)
5 large eggs
1 cup butter milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp red food colour

Method:
1. Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Sift it 3 times to get the velvety texture.
2. Cream together butter and sugar till fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
3. Add the dry ingredients and buttermilk alternately, starting and ending with the flour.
4. Mix in vanilla and food colour. Fill cupcake pans half full of batter
5. Bake at 350F for 20 mins.
Frost with cream cheese frosting.

Cup Cakes Marble Style!

Hi. Its been a few days...
So, today I tried a variation of the marble bread/cake . I made marble CUPCAKES!! Came out good. Nothing to it. Just make the batters for marble bread/cake and put small spoonfulls of batter in the cupcake cases, both chocolate and vanilla and swirl!! You got marble cupcakes! I know I know, not very original, but I was sorely lacking in creativity after the week I had. Husband not in town for a week, 24/7 company of the kids over the weekend... Anybody's brain would turn into mush!!

PS: Dont forget to swirl a knife through. I forgot!!

Enjoy!!