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Winter Ginger Beer Cupcakes with Fever-Tree Ginger Beer

Published on December 19, 2010 by Helen Best-Shaw 12 Comments
Last Updated on January 7, 2019

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Easy to make ginger beer cupcakes are made with a vanilla vegan buttercream frosting. These vegan cupcakes are the perfect treat!

As part of my reward for judging the Tesco Real Food cupcake decorating competition I attended a cake decoration masterclass with Mich Turner MBE at the rather lovely Make Lounge in Islington.   I was both looking forward to, and slightly dreading the class as I was under the impression that my cake decorating skills are limited, happily I was proved very wrong and I now have the cake decoration “bug” and spent £25 last weekend on edible glitter, cutters and fondant icing.   The skills I learnt in the class are a topic for another post, but I put them to good use today to make some Christmas cupcakes.

Several months ago I attended the launch of Fever-Tree’s Mediterranean Tonic Water, which is designed specifically for the vodka drinker, and very delicious it was too.  I feel rather guilty as I have not written about it yet, I am blaming the blog backlog; which I am slowly catching up with.    I was also given some samples of Fever-Tree’s Ginger Beer which I used in my cupcakes.  This ginger beer is brimming with three types of ginger, the drink is light and refreshing, but at the same time warming.    Well worth a taste.

The cakes are based on my ever popular (and most read post on the blog) Easy Peasy Ginger Cake recipe.   I reduced the amount of ginger, and used Fever-Tree Ginger Beer in place of the water.   I think that it is even better than the original recipe due to the excellent quality of the Fever-Tree ginger beer.  Like the original recipe this version still is as easy peasy as “bung it all in the food processor and whizz”, all ingredients are from the store cupboard and the cakes are vegan (and thus cholesterol free), although I used buttercream for icing.

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Easy Peasy Ginger Beer Cupcakes

Ginger beer cupcakes are a fun and festive holiday cake
Servings: 30
Author: Helen Best-Shaw
Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time15 mins
Total Time25 mins
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Ingredients

Cupcakes

  • 350 g plain flour
  • 225 g sugar (I use soft dark brown for colour and flavour but any would work)
  • 100 g cooking oil (sunflower or rape/canola)
  • 1 tsp ground ginger (adjust according to taste and fierceness of the  ginger beer)
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ground allspice
  • ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • Pinch salt
  • About 60g treacle
  • 200 ml ginger beer
  • 25 ml water

Buttercream

  • 250 g butter (or non diary spread - I use Pure)
  • 600 g icing sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 2 tbs milk

Instructions

Cupcakes

  • Place all the ingredients into the food processor bowl and whizz until you have a smooth golden brown batter. Fill cake cases about 2/3 full and bake at GM4/180C for about 14 mins until risen and a cocktail stick inserted into the middle comes out clean.

Buttercream

  • Cut  the butter into small cubes and allow to soften.   Beat with an electric mixer for 5 minutes until pale and fluffy, slowly add half the icing sugar beating all the time.  Add the vanilla essence and milk, beat.  Slowly add the rest of the icing sugar and beat for a good 5 minutes until fluffy.  If you are using a non diary "butter" you may need to adjust the amount of icing sugar.
  • I iced half my cakes then coloured the remainder of the buttercream.   If you use liquid food colouring you may need to add a little more icing sugar.
  • Decorate to your heart's content and enjoy!

Notes

 
 
• Please note that the nutrition information provided below is approximate and meant as a guideline only.
• Unless stated otherwise cup conversions have been made with an online tool. For accuracy please check with your favoured conversion tool. We recommend buying inexpensive digital kitchen scales.
Nutrition Facts
Easy Peasy Ginger Beer Cupcakes
Amount Per Serving (30 cupcakes)
Calories 248 Calories from Fat 90
% Daily Value*
Fat 10g15%
Saturated Fat 4g25%
Cholesterol 18mg6%
Sodium 83mg4%
Potassium 61mg2%
Carbohydrates 38g13%
Sugar 29g32%
Protein 1g2%
Vitamin A 210IU4%
Calcium 17mg2%
Iron 0.7mg4%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Course: Baked Goods, Baking
Cuisine: Baking, Cakes & Bakes
Keyword: Ginger Beer Cupcakes
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  1. Johanna GGG

    sounds very good – and they look so pretty with the snow flakes – just the thing for this british winter!

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  2. C

    They look really beautiful – I love all the glitter and decorations. Whereabouts did you buy them from? – I don’t think there’s anywhere round me that I can find stuff like that! It sounds like you enjoyed the class too.

    I must try vegan cupcakes and these sound amazing – I love ginger!

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  3. erica downs

    these look delicious- if you’ve not eaten them already, pls send one over with Ed. I am sick and have not been interested in eating for 2 days until I saw these ( hope you made them with butter…)

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    • Helen

      Hope you enjoyed them Erica!

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  4. the caked crusader

    I am a fan of everything ginger in baking so these really call to me. Love your red frosting – so hard to get good colour like that!

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  5. Antonia

    What pretty, festive cakes. Love the idea of using ginger beer in the recipe – bet they are delicious.

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  6. Sarah @ Maison Cupcake

    Remarkably good – vegan and festive with that ginger beer. Jolly good idea. You did a good job transferring those snowflakes onto the cakes, they’re so fragile aren’t they?

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    • Helen

      It took me several goes to work out that regal icing for the snowflakes need to be rolled somewhat thicker than for the stars!
      I let them dry for a good few hours.
      I am ADDICTED!

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  7. Sophie Ortega

    5 stars
    They look really beautiful – I love all the glitter and decorations. Whereabouts did you buy them from? – I don’t think there’s anywhere round me that I can find stuff like that! It sounds like you enjoyed the class too. I must try vegan cupcakes and these sound amazing – I love ginger!

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  8. Ian @ All Things Ginger

    Although Christmas is but a distant memory it is still winter. And with ginger beer and cupcakes and buttercream, need I say anymore!

    Reply
  9. Ciara Cummins

    These look wonderful. Definitely going to have to try and make these for Christmas!

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  10. lara

    i think these cupcakes are really nice and christmasy …. I will try and make them sometimes
    thanks for putting the website on the internet
    me and my friend ella like them
    :)

    Reply

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