These Gingerbread Cupcakes with White Chocolate Pudding Frosting are to die for! The cupcakes are so soft and filled with all the glorious gingerbread flavors. And don’t even get me started on the incredibly tasty frosting!
Gingerbread Cupcakes with White Chocolate Pudding Frosting
So this frosting, you guys.
It’s sort of perfect.
It’s way different from my usual kill-me-now frosting. So if you’re looking for a really stable buttercream, this isn’t for you.
But if you want something a little lighter (not necessarily healthier) you’re barking up the right tree.
It’s fluffy, it’s sweet, it’s got pudding in it.
Here’s how this happened…last week I was innocently shopping and came across this…
I didn’t even know Hershey made pudding…so of course I tweeted, instagrammed and obsessed over it. Typical.
Within a few minutes of tweeting it, Maria tweeted me back saying she had just made Oreo White Chocolate Pudding Cookies...so I decided I needed to make something different.
I saw this frosting a while back and knew it would be the perfect vehicle for the pudding. I mean, Pudding Frosting? Hello…yes!
Deciding on a cupcake for this frosting to sit on was easy peasy.
So here’s what I did…
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I started by making the cupcakes. Which required me to break out my very lonely jar of molasses. Homeboy doesn’t get much play.
The batter is super easy…I filled up some cute cupcake liners about 2/3 full and baked away!
While they were baking I made the frosting…
Note, this frosting requires about an hour in the fridge before frosting, so leave a little time for that!
You’ve got cream cheese, milk, pudding, and powdered sugar in there. Beat it until it thickens…
I transferred mine into an airtight container to chill for a bit.
When the cupcakes were cooled and the frosting was chilled, I did some piping and I ate.
Seriously.
And I’m just gonna say this, I bet this frosting would make a great “mousse” served in cups or jars topped with fruit, or chocolate. Nothing like frosting you can eat straight.
Now hop over and check out Maria’s (Two Peas and Their Pod) Oreo White Chocolate Pudding Cookies.
I’ve also done some Oreo Pudding Cookies with Oreo Pudding, so check those out too!
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Gingerbread Cupcakes with White Chocolate Pudding Frosting
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 18 minutes
- Total Time: 43 minutes
- Yield: 10 cupcakes 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
These Gingerbread Cupcakes with White Chocolate Pudding Frosting are to die for! The cupcakes are so soft and filled with all the glorious gingerbread flavors. And don’t even get me started on the incredibly tasty frosting!
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 1 1/4 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/4 cup butter (4 Tbsp), room temp
- 1/3 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup very hot water
Frosting
- 1 box white chocolate instant pudding (3.5 oz box – 4 servings)
- 1 cup cold milk
- 1/3 cup powdered sugar
- 4 oz cream cheese
- 8 oz tub Cool Whip, thawed
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 350° and line muffin tin with cupcake liners..
- In bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Set aside.
- With your mixer, beat butter, brown sugar, and molasses together until creamy and smooth.
- Add egg and mix well.
- Turn mixer to low and alternately add the dry mixture and water, starting and ending with dry mixture. Mix until smooth.
- Fill liners 2/3 full and bake 18-20 minutes.
- Cool completely before frosting.
Frosting
- In stand mixer beat cream cheese until smooth and light, 1-2 minutes.
- Add in pudding mix, milk and powdered sugar, beating until blended and thickened, about 2 minutes. Fold in the Cool Whip until evenly incorporated.
- Chill frosting for an hour before frosting cupcakes to firm.
Notes
Store frosted cupcakes in refrigerator, or frost just before serving.
frosting recipe adapted from Confessions of a Cookbook Queen
cupcake recipe adapted from McCormick
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 319
- Sugar: 24.4 g
- Sodium: 224.9 mg
- Fat: 12.3 g
- Carbohydrates: 46.9 g
- Protein: 5.8 g
- Cholesterol: 43.2 mg
Oh my gosh – I love LOVE all the unique pudding flavors! I need to find this! And that frosting looks divine… actually all of it looks divine…
Try it also with Jello Cheesecake Pudding. It’s crazy good!
This looks so light and fluffy. The gingerbread cupcakes sound so good with it!
Pudding frosting just has to be some kind of wonderful magical thing that I’m going to want to eat out of the bowl with a spoon. I can feel it.
quick question…where does the Cool Whip come into play? It’s an ingredient for your frosting, but it doesn’t say when/where to add it. Did I miss something?
You fold it in at the end…It’s at the end of the recipe 🙂 I left that out, but corrected it a few hours ago. Thanks so much!
thank you Shelly. Really, really looking forward to trying this 🙂
great looking!! PINNED
that does look like perfection!!!
Buttercream is usually too much for me, so this sounds like a good alternative. I always feel so guilty when I have to scrape most of the frosting off of a cupcake…
I am in love with the frosting and cupcakes! Thanks for teaming up for a fun white chocolate pudding day:) xo
oh these look delicious, I LOVE gingerbread!