Winter cupcake recipes

Ingredients

• 4 tablespoons boiling water
• flour, baking powder, cinnamon
• butter, sugars, rum, vanilla
• eggs
• 1/3 of the sifted dry ingredients (prevents curdling!)
• dried fruit
• milk
• 2 whole oranges (scrubbed, not peeled, thinly sliced)
• 600g caster sugar
• 1tsp baking powder
• 200g ground almonds
• Candied orange peel or grated orange zest
• 100ml double/heavy cream
• 150g dark bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
• 600g mascarpone cheese
• 120g golden syrup
• 120g black treacle/dark molasses
• 200ml double cream
• 250g plain all-purpose flour
• 2tsp baking powder
• 1tsp ground espresso
• 2tsp ground ginger
• 1Ž2 tsp ground all spice
• 1Ž2 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1Ž4 tsp salt
• 135g butter cubed and soft
• 125g dark brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• Gingerbread men sugar sprinkles to decorate