Gingerbread Men Cupcakes

Gingerbread-Men-Cupcakes

I got a request for a dozen gingerbread cupcakes for an upcoming ladies book club so I made these little guys! I love this Gingerbread Recipe! It calls for Guinness Stout Beer and molasses as well as freshly grated ginger. The flavor is rich and deep, the perfect foil for the creamy, tangy cream cheese frosting accented with freshly grated orange peel (and i added a little ground ginger to bring it all together). For the "Gingerbread Men" i melted up some dark and white chocolate and piped out little chocoate gingerbread men to use as toppers. The chocolate wont dissolve in the frosting like royal icing decorations or gingerbread cookies would do, but if you want to use cookies put them on at the last minute, just before serving, they should work great too! Enjoy!

Comments

[anna]

Hi Eve!! I miss you guys too! I know you have something exciting going on... i can't wait to see what you're up to!! :-)

[eve]

[this is good] Oh, Anna, I miss you!

[anna]

Thanks Steffy!

[Steffy]

[this is good] You do such great work! They look delish!

[faithy]

Wow..so creative! They look so delicious!!

[anna]

Hi Ana Karin- you dont have to be good at piping!!! i poured melted chocolate bark into a plastic squeeze bottle and just squeezed out the head, arms and legs, they all kind of meld together! i melted up a little bit of white chocolate bark and made a tiny parchment triangle and used that to pipe on the details. It was really simple you could totally do it! i made myself a template of gingerbread men and placed a sheet of plastic over that and then piped on the plastic! I have more detailed instructions here: How to Pipe Chocolate

[dearbarbz]

[this is good]

[Ana Karin]

[this is good] I think I will make these next... but I'm not good at piping, so I'll have to come up with some other cute topping.

[Country By Design]

What a clever idea! Bet they were delicious, too.