Gingerbread Houses and chocolate cupcakes are the most popular holiday desserts.

Why not to combine them together?

Chocolate cupcakes are delicious and  moist, with vibrant spiced orange filling.

Topped with cream cheese  frosting and decorated with gingerbread cookies.

Lets start cooking! Preheated oven to 350 F / 177 C. Roll gingerbread dough about 1/8 ″ / 3 mm thick.

Use a knife or small cookie cutters to cut  different gingerbread houses (ones with smoking chimney, other without  and so on) and Christmas trees.

Also cut some small rectangles to make  fence and tile road. Make more than 11 gingerbread houses, 11 Christmas  trees and 25 road tiles or fences to test and complete the town.

Prepare baking tray, lined with parchment  paper. Put your gingerbread cookies on the tray, leaving some space  between the cookies.

Bake around 8-10 minutes. Small  gingerbread tiles will bake faster, around 5-6 minutes, so make sure to  remove them from the tray earlier.Cool gingerbread cookies completely. 

Add half a cup of icing sugar, a pinch of  salt in a small bowl and start mixing in half tablespoon of milk until  smooth.

Adjust by adding more icing sugar or drops  of milk until you have perfect icing consistency. It should be  pour-able, but very thick.

Drizzle a little from the spoon, if it holds its shape for 6-8 seconds before melting back to icing, it is ready.

Fill the icing in a pastry bag with metal  tip and try it on the piece of parchment paper. Draw a line and see if  it holds the shape.

Draw the border lines on the cookies and let them dry for at least half an hour. Then start decorating the inside of the cookies.

Make dots and garlands on the Christmas trees. Draw roof tiles, snowmen roofs, windows and doors on the houses.

Fill the smoke completely white, helping to distribute icing with a toothpick. Draw stripes and tiles on the “road” cookies. Let the icing dry completely overnight, best time would be 20 hours.

These easy to make chocolate cupcakes with gingerbread town on top are perfect Christmas gifts for your family and friends.

Next, lets make chocolate cupcakes!

Preheat oven to 355 F / 180 C. Mix all dry ingredients in one bowl.  Whisk all wet ingredients in another bowl.

Make a well in the center of mixed dry  ingredients and slowly add half of wet ingredients. Combine until  incorporated, then add leftover liquid ingredients and combine until you  have no lumps.

Prepare cupcake or muffin tray with cupcake liners. Fill until the top with batter. Bake about 30 minutes or until inserted wooden toothpick comes out clean.

As far as we love building gingerbread houses, we think these Christmas cupcakes are so cute and so much easier to make! 

Now lets make orange filling 

Squeeze fresh orange juice from oranges in a small pot. Add sugar, cinnamon, ginger and cornstarch, mix until combined.

Put the pot on the low heat.  Simmer for 10 minutes, stirring, then remove from heat and sieve in the other bowl. 

Add butter cubes one by one, mixing until melted completely. Cover with plastic wrap or lid and let it cool completely. 

To fill the cupcakes, prepare a piping bag  with decorating tip. Add orange curd in a bag. Insert the tip in the  top and center of the cupcake and push it down. 

Don’t make a hole in the bottom of the cupcake, or the filling will drip off.  Squeeze  the filling in the cupcake, moving the bag upwards until you reach the top

Smooth the leftover leaking curd on top of cupcake with a spoon or spatula. After that we will start making white frosting. 

Christmas gingerbread cupcake will make you smile during the holidays! It is a perfect season to make cakes and cupcakes.  

 Whip heavy cream for 5 minutes until stiff peaks.  In a separate bowl whip cream cheese with lemon juice. Slowly fold whipped cream into cream cheese until combined. 

To finally decorate the cupcake, draw around it drips of melting snow – use leftover icing for that.

 Then add white frosting on top and smooth it with offset spatula or spoon.

Insert a house and a Christmas tree in  every cupcake, stick into frosting. Secure them with wooden toothpicks,  cut in half. Add the roads and fences.

Thats it! We hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we did.

Have fun, meet with your friends and family, enjoy the cupcakes and have a very merry Christmas!