Prepare for rave reviews of "the best Christmas muffin" once you bake these bakery-style gingerbread muffins! Coated with a sweet vanilla glaze, they capture the essence of gingerbread cookies.
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time24 minutesmins
Rest Time15 minutesmins
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Keyword: gingerbread muffins
Servings: 10muffins
Author: Beth
Ingredients
3cups all-purpose flour360 grams
½cupgranulated sugar100 grams
½cupbrown sugar, packed107 grams
3tspbaking powder
1tspsalt
2tspground cinnamon
1tspground ginger
½tspground nutmeg
¼tspground cloves
½cupunsulphured molasses118 ml
2largeeggs
¾cupvegetable oil180 ml
½cupmilk118 ml
Vanilla Icing
1cup powdered sugar113 grams
½tspvanilla extract
2Tbspheavy cream or milk
Instructions
In a mixing bowl combine the flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. Stir together and set aside.
In a larger mixing bowl combine the molasses, eggs, vegetable oil, and milk. Stir to combine.
Gradually mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, mixing just until combined. The batter will be very thick.
Cover the bowl with a towel and allow the batter to rest for 15 minutes. During this time, preheat the oven to 425ºF / 220ºC.
For bakery style muffins, line a 12 count muffin pan with 6 muffin liners, meaning you’ll only fill every other muffin well with batter. Fill the liners with 8-10 heaping tablespoons of batter. Place one pan in the center of the oven and bake for 7 minutes at 425ºF / 220ºC, then keep the muffins in the oven, turn the temperature down to 350ºF / 180ºC and bake for 15-19 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow the muffins to cool in the pan. Repeat with the remaining batter, bumping the temperature back up to 425ºF / 220ºC.
Once they are cooled, dip the tops in glaze. In a small mixing bowl, combine the powdered sugar, vanilla extract and heavy cream or milk. Whisk until smooth. Dip each muffin and allow the glaze to set.
Notes
For a richer and stronger gingerbread flavor, increase the ground ginger to 1 1/2 tsp, the ground nutmeg to 1 tsp and the ground cloves to 1/2 tsp.