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Gingerbread Cupcakes with Lemony Frosting

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Nothing says waiting for the holiday season to end like these moist, fluffy gingerbread cupcakes. Bring them to your next familial bash and eat them as you grit your teeth and marvel at your family.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Makes 12 cupcakes

Ingredients

Gingerbread Cupcakes:

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup light molasses
1/2 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup soy milk
2 tablespoons soy yogurt
1 1/2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest
1/4 cup finely chopped crystallized ginger

Lemony Cream Cheese Frosting:

1/4 cup nonhydrogenated margarine, softened
1/4 vegan cream cheese, softened
2 cups confectioners’ sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon of finely grated lemon zest

Preparation

  1. Gingerbread Cupcakes:

    Step 1

    Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a muffin pan with paper cupcake liners.

    Step 2

    Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and salt into a bowl and mix.

    Step 3

    Whisk the oil, molasses, maple syrup, soy milk, yogurt, and lemon zest in a separate large bowl. Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and mix just until smooth. Fold in the chopped crystallized ginger.

    Step 4

    Fill cupcake liners two-thirds full. Bake for 19 to 22 minutes, until a knife or toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Transfer to a cooling rack and let cool completely before frosting.

  2. Lemony Cream Cheese Frosting:

    Step 5

    Cream together margarine and cream cheese until just combined. Use a handheld mixer to whip while adding the confectioners’ sugar in 1/2 cup batches. Mix until smooth and creamy, then in mix in the vanilla. Add the lemon zest. Keep tightly covered and refrigerated until ready to use.

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From Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World © 2006 by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero. Reprinted with permission by Da Capo Press. Buy the full book from Amazon.
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  • Can you say wow? If you can’t and need that extra help, try these cupcakes. They were a knockout for our dinner of seven. Well, only six. We didn’t allow the seventh a cupcake. They were gingerbread authentic where you needed gingerbread authentic; creamy where cream should be; zesty where you need that acidic fix. We substituted the soy milk with soy CREAM. I mean, brilliant, right? Our cook, who is normally responsible and trustworthy, ate the batter shamelessly. Completely without remorse. Please, if nothing else, go toward these cupcakes.

    • brigitte.naughton717

    • Bozeman, MT

    • 3/17/2020

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