Gingerbread cupcakes.

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I've been meaning to post this for days! Taken from Baking with Love, with edits (I meant to scan the page, but eh, I am lazy):

• 1 and 1/3 plain flour


• 1 tablespoon ground ginger


• 1 teaspoon mustard powder


• 1 teaspoon baking soda


• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon


• Pinch of ground cloves


• 1/2 cup of dark brown sugar


• 2 tablespoons olive oil


• 2 egg whites


• 1/2 cup buttermilk


• 5-cm piece of fresh ginger


• 1/2 cup of icing sugar


• 2 tablespoons chopped crystalised ginger

• Line a 12-hole muffin pan, and preheat oven to 180°C.


• Sift flour, mustard, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, and cloves in a bowl.


• In another bowl, place sugar and oil and beat until mixed. Beat in egg whites one at a time until mixture has a light texture.


• Alternate folds of flour and buttermilk into the sugar mixtures -- start and end with the flour mixture.


• Spoon into cases, and bake for 20 minutes or until a skewer spike comes out clean.


• Leave cupcakes to cool completely.


• Make glaze with icing sugar and 2 teaspoons of ginger juice. Glaze cupcakes, and decorate with crystalised ginger.