Gingerbread Muffins
Light and fluffy, Gingerbread Muffins are perfect for Christmas morning. This easy-to-make muffin recipe is made in one bowl, making clean-up easy as well.
Ingredients
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup white sugar
- ½ cup melted butter, cooled
- ½ cup molasses
- 1 egg
- ½ cup unsweetened apple sauce
- 2¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 Tbsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- ¼ tsp ground cloves
- ¼ tsp allspice
- 1½ tsp gresh grated ginger
- ½ cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400℉.
- Line a muffin pan with papers, or lightly grease the pan.
- In a large bowl, whisk the sugars and butter together until smooth.
- Beat in the molasses, egg, and apple sauce until combined.
- Add the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, salt, baking soda, nutmeg, cloves and allspice, stirring until just combined.
- Stir in the fresh ginger and the milk.
- Fill the muffin pan cups equally with the batter.
- Bake at 400℉ for 10 minutes, then reduce the heat to 375℉ and bake an additional 8 minutes or until the centres of the muffins are just baked. Don't overbake.
- Cool in pan for 5 minutes, before transferring to a cooling rack to finish cooling.
- Store cooled muffins in an airtight container.