I love cupcakes… but who doesn’t love cupcakes! In my world mini cupcakes are the way to go. I can eat one, or maybe two and not feel like I have fallen on track. The holidays are a great time to whip up some gingerbread cupcakes, however I can eat gingerbread recipes all year long. These little gems of a cupcake have a secret ingredient that make them stick out from the rest…Want to know what it is? Crushed up ginger snap cookies… um hello my new favorite cupcake. 🙂
Mini gingerbread cupcakes
2sp/1pp each
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup crushed ginger snap cookies
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup almond milk, at room temperature
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 1 t vanilla extract
- 1.5 cups white flour
- 1 t baking powder
- 1/2 t baking soda
- 1 t cinnamon
- 1/2 t ginger
- 1/2 t all spice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F
- Using a electric mixer beat together applesauce, sugar and crushed cookies.
- Add egg, milk, molasses and vanilla and continue beating for 2 minutes.
- In separate bowl mix dry ingredients together then add to wet. Mix well..
- Fill a paper lined mini muffin tin 3/4 way full, I find it best to give the paper cups a little spray to prevent cupcakes from sticking. Bake for approx. 15-17 minutes.
- Yields 36 mini cupcakes. Top with some Betty crocker vanilla icing. 1 cupcake is 2 smart points or 1 points plus , not incl icing, add another point for icing
- Nutritional info per cupcake.. Calories 43...Fat 0.4g...Sat fat 0.1g...Carbs 9.2g... Fiber 0.7g...Sugars 3.9g..Protein 0.8g
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What did you use for the little gingerbread men?
They are just little sprinkles from my local bulk food store 🙂
I’m on the hunt for a points-friendly gingerbread cookie recipe … I don’t suppose this one would work, right? Have you tried adjusting it to make cookies?
Hi there, I just made some that I will be adding to the blog this weekend, they are a large soft textured gingerbread and everyone in my house loved them! Hopefully be up on the blog by Sunday