Giant Gingerbread Muffins Recipes

GINGERBREAD MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F. Line standard size muffin tin with paper liners.
• Make Muffins: In a bowl, whisk together flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt. In a separate large bowl, whisk together melted butter, brown sugar, molasses, vegetable oil, egg, and hot water until smooth. Add liquid mixture to dry mixture and whisk until no dry pockets of flour remain. Divide batter among 10 of the lined muffin cups, filling each about two-thirds full. Bake until the center of the muffins springs back to the touch and a toothpick inserted comes out clean, about 15 minutes. Allow to cool completely before frosting.
• Make Frosting: Beat together cream cheese and butter until smooth, about 1 minute. Add powdered sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon and mix on low until combined. Increase speed to medium high and beat until lightened and fluffy. Transfer Frosting to a piping bag with a star tip and pipe small swirls in the center of each crater on the top of each muffin.

GINGERBREAD MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners.
• Combine 1/2 cup sugar, applesauce, molasses, vegetable oil, and egg in a medium bowl; beat with an electric mixer until combined.
• Stir together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, cloves, ginger, and nutmeg in a separate bowl. Add flour mixture to applesauce mixture, stirring until combined. Add water; mix until well combined. Pour batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each about 2/3 full. Sprinkle lightly with remaining sugar.
• Bake in the preheated oven until tops spring back when lightly pressed, 20 to 25 minutes.

SUGAR 'N SPICE MINI GINGERBREAD MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease two 24-cup mini muffin pans.
• Combine molasses, margarine, white sugar, brown sugar, egg, lemon zest, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves in a large bowl. Beat using an electric mixer at medium speed until well mixed. Add flour and sour cream; continue beating until well mixed.
• Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, 10 to 12 minutes. Let stand for 5 minutes before removing from the pans.

GINGERBREAD BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and line a standard 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners. Spread the wheat bran evenly on a rimmed baking sheet and bake until fragrant and toasted, about 8 minutes. Remove the bran from the oven and increase the heat to 450 degrees.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the toasted bran, graham flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and cloves. In a large bowl, whisk together the molasses, vegetable oil, dark brown sugar and eggs. Stir in the buttermilk, raisins and ginger.
• Gently stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, just until everything is evenly moistened. Don't overdo it.
• Divide the batter evenly among the prepared cups. Transfer to the oven and immediately reduce the temperature to 350 degrees F. Bake until the tops are nice and puffed and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with moist crumbs attached, 22 to 25 minutes. Transfer the muffins to a rack to cool completely.

GIANT GINGERBREAD MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Grease muffin cups and top of pan. (do not use papers).
• In medium bowl stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda; set aside.
• In large bowl beat margarine 30 seconds.
• Add brown sugar and beat until fluffy.
• Beat in sour cream and molasses until blended.
• Beat in eggs.
• Stir flour mixture into creamed mixture until moistened.
• Fold in cereal.
• Fill muffin cups even with the top of the pan.
• Bake at 375 degrees 25 minutes.

RAISIN GINGERBREAD MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in sour cream and molasses. Combine 2 cups flour, baking soda, ginger, allspice and cinnamon; add to creamed mixture just until moistened. Toss the raisins with the remaining flour; stir into batter., Fill paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full. Bake at 375° for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

TRIPLE-GINGER MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 375 degrees and line a standard muffin tin with paper liners.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine the sugar, butter, eggs, milk, molasses and grated ginger, and whisk until smooth.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, ground ginger and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until just combined. (Be careful not to overmix! The batter will be slightly lumpy.) Stir in 3/4 cup crystallized ginger, reserving the remaining 3 tablespoons for the topping.
• Using an ice cream scoop or a large spoon, divide the batter between the 12 muffin cups. Sprinkle the reserved crystallized ginger onto the tops of the muffins, and bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean and the muffins spring back when lightly pressed. Cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then carefully transfer muffins to a cooling rack and cool completely.