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We’re making delicious gingerbread cupcakes decorated to look like Santa Hats with red and white buttercream frosting! Perfect for a Christmas party!
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Pin ItHow cute are these Santa Hat Gingerbread Cupcakes?! Made with a moist, gingery cupcake base and topped with easy whipped buttercream, they’re festive, charming, and super simple to decorate – perfect for holiday parties!
To make the Santa hat, I cut a medium sized hole in the piping bag and them piped it in a round circle. You can also use a round piping tip, but make sure it’s big enough to give wide twist, kind of like a twisty ice cream cone!
Santa Hat
For the snowball on the top of the hats of the gingerbread cupcakes, we used a tiny ball of white fondant. You can also use a mini-marshmallow or pipe a star dot, like the ones around the bottom of the hat.
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GINGERBREAD CUPCAKES
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3/4 cup molasses
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2½ cups flour
- 1½ teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup hot water
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
GINGERY BUTTERCREAM FROSTING
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
- 6 cups confectioners’ sugar, powder sugar
- 1 tbsp ground ginger
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 4 tbsp whipping cream
- 10-15 drops red food coloring
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and prepare a cupcake pan
- In a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment beat the butter, molasses, and sugar together until light and fluffy
- Add in the egg and continue to beat until incorporated
- In a separate bowl combine the dry ingredients… flour, baking soda, spices, and salt
- In a wet measuring cup, combine the water and oil together
- Alternate the dry and wet ingredients into the butter mixture with the mixer on slow to medium
- Only beat until incorporated, scraping down the sides
- Fill cupcake liners halfway and bake in a 350 degree over for 20 minutes. Do not over bake
GINGERY BUTTERCREAM FROSTING
- Beat the butter and the sugar on high until light and fluffy
- Add in the ground ginger and vanilla extract and continue to beat
- Add in the whipping cream, one tablespoon at a time, until the frosting is a nice, creamy consistency
- Beat on high, scraping down the sides of the bowl
- Remove ¼ of the frosting and set aside in a bowl to leave it white for the details on the hat.
- Add in 10 to 15 drops of red dye to the remaining frosting to get the desired red color you want
- Add both frosting colors (red and white) into separate piping bags to use to make the Santa hat
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
so darling! going to make these for sure!
Very charming!!! I love those cupcake wrappers! Merry Christmas!
Thank you so much!!! Merry Christmas to you too!
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