Gingerbread Cupcakes with Gingerbread Frosting - Baking At Home

Ingredients

• Cupcakes
• ½ C. Crisco® All-Vegetable Shortening *can also use unsalted butter at room temperature.
• ½ C. light brown sugar packed firmly in cup
• 1 large egg, room temperature
• ½ C. Grandma’s Molasses®
• ½ C. whole milk, room temperature
• 1 tsp. Spice Islands® Pure Vanilla Extract
• 1⅓ C. all-purpose flour
• 1/4 tsp. Clabber Girl® Baking Powder
• 1/4 tsp. Clabber Girl® Baking Soda
• ½ tsp. kosher salt
• 1½ tsp. Spice Islands® Ground Ginger
• ½ tsp. Spice Islands® Ground Nutmeg
• 1 tsp. Spice Islands® Ground Saigon Cinnamon
• ⅛ tsp. Spice Islands® Allspice *can be omitted if you do not have it on-hand
• Frosting
• ½ C. butter unsalted, room temperature
• ½ C. Crisco® All-Vegetable Shortening
• 4 C. powdered sugar
• ¼ C. milk
• 1 Tbsp. Grandma’s® Molasses
• ¼ tsp. Spice Islands® Ground Ginger