Sticky Ginger Christmas Cupcakes

• Vegetarian

• Produce

  • 3 tsp Ginger, ground

• Refrigerated

  • 4 Eggs

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • 640 g Icing sugar
  • 200 g Muscovado sugar, fine dark
  • 50 g Muscovado sugar, light
  • 200 g Self raising flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp Spice, mixed

• Dairy

  • 43 g Butter
  • 150 ml Double cream
  • 420 g Margarine unsalted butter

• Desserts

  • 100 g Fudge piece

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Description

Directions

• Preheat the oven to 180°C / 160°C fan / 350°F / gas 4 and line a 12 hole muffin tray.
• Cream together the butter and sugar until everything is combined and is nice and fluffy.
• Add the eggs and mix until everything is combined.
• Add the flour and baking powder and mix on a medium speed until everything is combined.
• Add the ginger and mixed spies and stir into the mixture.
• Dust 55g of the fudge pieces and in self raising flour and add to the mixture, stir in.
• Divide the mixture evenly between the cases and weigh out 20g of the fudge pieces then sprinkle them on top of the cakes.
• Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes.
• While your cakes are cooking make the toffee sauce. Add all the ingredients to a saucepan and keep stirring until everything has dissolved and turned into a toffee colour, until it starts to bubble.
• Pour it into a jug so it cools down quicker.
• Take your cakes out the oven an place them on a wire rack to completely cool.
• While your cakes are cooling make your frosting. Place margarine into the bowl and sift the icing sugar, you may have to do this in batches as there is quite a lot.
• Once all the icing sugar has all been sifted, on a low speed start to whisk it up and gradually up the speed until you have a thick paste.
• Add 3 tbsp of toffee sauce and stir in so it loosens the mixture.
• Pick a nozzle of your choice and add a bit of frosting to your piping bag followed by a big dollop of toffee sauce then some more frosting.
• Pipe the frosting quite high on your cake, decorate with little gingerbread men and Christmas sprinkles.
• Serve and enjoy!