Gingerbread Muffins with Coffee Glaze

It’s that time of year.

Crowds, uncanny mall Santas, and gingerbread.  Gingerbread houses are engaging things, aren’t they?  On one hand, they can be beautiful, and nonetheless on a other palm they can seem impossibly germy.  The chairman creation a residence apparently manhandles a ruin out of any piece, and one has to breathe deeply with a wish that a gingerbread-house-maker cleared her hands a whole heck of a lot while convention a architectural cookie masterpiece.  Like after any singular time she wiped her drippy Dec nose.  Like after any singular time she non-stop a fridge doorway to get some pomegranate juice.  Germs live everywhere, people.  Including on a really people clamoring to slice a cookie shingles and walls and stairs off a gingerbread residence in a midst of a dessert feeding frenzy.  If a gingerbread builder isn’t a source of disease, a filthy hands of a residence eaters will certainly get we ill over a holidays.

Cheers to me being a gingerbread residence ba-humbug, eh?  So revoke a widespread of holiday germs and make gingerbread muffins instead.  Very little touching, and really little group-eating.  And really festive, of course.  And WAY reduction time compulsory than creation a residence with topping shaped to demeanour like eaves troughs.

(But really- we WILL make a gingerbread residence one day, while wearing a hazmat suit.  Totally germ-free.)

Adapted from epicurious’s recipe…

2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

4 1/2 teaspoons belligerent ginger

2 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon belligerent cinnamon

1/8 teaspoon belligerent cloves

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 crater (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature

1/2 crater and 2 tablespoons sugar

2 eggs

3/4 crater light molasses

1 1/3 cups cold water

GLAZE:

1 crater confectioners’ sugar

2 – 3 tablespoons really clever coffee or Kahlua

1. Preheat oven to 350°.  Grease 16 customary muffin cups.
2. In a middle bowl, drive flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves and salt until combined.
3. In a vast bowl, kick unsalted butter and sugarine for 4 minutes.  Add eggs one during a time, violence 45 seconds between each.  Beat in molasses until good combined, scraping down sides of bowl.  Add a third of dry ingredients, violence until blended.  Beat in half of a water, afterwards kick in another third of dry ingredients.  Beat in remaining apportionment of water, then remaining dry ingredients.  Divide beat equally among prepared muffin cups.
4. Bake muffins for about 25 mins (until tester extrinsic into core comes out mostly purify of crumbs).  Transfer to shelve and cold for 10 minutes; mislay muffins from vessel and place on shelve with a piece of polish paper/foil/parchment paper underneath (to locate glitter drips).
5. GLAZE: in a little play or measuring cup, drive confectioners’ sugarine and coffee/Kahlua until smooth.  Spoon glitter over tops of muffins.

Tips:

• No coffee or Kahlua in a house?  Go forward and use divert instead.  You’ll skip that coffee flavor, though whatever.  (Oh- we could use OJ instead if you’d like. Orange and gingerbread are a classical combo.)
• Garnish: a few years ago we sprinkled candied lemon liking over a muffin tops while a glitter was still setting.  I had photos though only deleted them since they looked wholly sum (it’s a lighting, a lighting was shit).  If we wish to candy liking like a penetrating baker, balance into this recipe (it’s for my Classic Carrot Cake, that we competence die happy eating) for a liking instructions.  I also done candied pistachios to pulp over a tops of little gingerbread muffins (with a cream cheese frosting).
• Glaze options: I oped to put my glitter in a little ziploc bag, and cut off a little dilemma to emanate a neat(ish) drizzle.  Another choice would be to only brush glitter over a tops of a muffins while they are still warm, so a glitter soaks into a muffin.  Yes.
• I am losing my mind.  I totally forgot we done this Gingerbread Cake with Lemon Glaze final year, like roughly to a day.  The muffins in this post were going to have lemon glaze, too, since apparently we adore that shit.  Thank God we satisfied it before baking my heart out with fundamentally a same recipe deja-vu.  And also- appreciate God we done Kahlua glaze, since it’s Kahlua.  I need not contend more.
• Enjoy!

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