Ingredients for the Gingerbread Chocolate Mini Cupcake ?
The batter of this insanely easy gingerbread chocolate mini cupcake consist of few basic ingredients that includes butter, flour, sugar and egg along with cocoa powder. The spices are are what makes it so good - cinnamon powder, ginger powder and all spice powder. The batter includes cocoa powder so you got to add little hot water to the batter to get the perfect crumbs.
Ingredients for the creamy frosting:
ButterSugarCinnamon powderVanilla essence
As you can see this gingerbread chocolate mini cupcakes doesn’t include some fancy ingredients. Just few warm spices to make it festive!
QUICK TIP I LEARNT – If you want to quickly soften a stick of butter, just place the butter stick with the wrapper in the microwave for 10 to 15 seconds. It will come out perfectly soft and ready to make frosting.
These gingerbread chocolate mini cupcakes were actually a result of an accidental shoot. The accident happened while shooting the video for the Christmas cake. I cracked the eggs, whisked the sugar and then realized that I totally forgotten to start the shoot. The camera was just in screen view mode. Duh! So, I kept that mixture away, cracked two more eggs and continued with the video. I was planning to use the whisked eggs and sugar mixture for pancakes or waffles or may be another fruitcake.
Then, I came across cute little Christmas theme mini cupcakes liners and I couldn’t resist. I knew exactly how to use the discarded whisked eggs and sugar mixture. Of course, I couldn’t go with the exact measurements but I was hoping it would work. And it totally did! The cupcakes came out soft and moist. Because my little fella loves frosting, I quickly whipped up a simple butter cream frosting with a hint of cinnamon and vanilla essence. Well, thanks to that accidental move of mine, we got to enjoy these gingerbread chocolate mini cupcake! And because these came out perfect, I just had to share. Hope you will give it a try.
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