Baby Led Weaning Gingerbread Spice Muffins with Cinnamon Frosting

The little Gingerbread Men have stolen the show for long enough. It’s time to get back to basics and put the spicy, festive, and nostalgic taste of gingerbread back into a beautifully moist and dense gingerbread spice muffins recipe. Everyone loves muffins especially ones topped with cookies and sweet and cinnamon frosting!

This comforting dense texture of a moist recipe packed with the flavour of festive spices will endear young and old. All without the refined sugar and black treacle traditionally used in this recipe. I use Maple syrup or Molasses as a healthier alternative all throughout the recipe. 

This recipe is a firm favourite in my range of healthy festive treats especially in the mini version! So, this is a great addition to your Christmas baking recipe collection.

Young helpers will delight in helping with the finishing touches. Piping the frosting on top of cooled buns and placing cooled cookies on top. Finally finishing off with a magical sprinkling of cinnamon. For extra creativity let them draw gingerbread faces on the cookies using a nice thin nozzle. 

The lighter ingredients used will leave your family, children and guests feeling wonderfully satisfied without any of the fullness of traditional muffin recipes. 

I adore the smell of fresh cloves and cinnamon so I grind it fresh for this recipe, but the dried seasoning will work just as well. A great tip is if you have fresh cinnamon sticks or cloves just place them in boiling water in saucepan and keep them simmering for about half an hour. 

Turn off after half hour of simmering and let this lovely, nostalgic festive aroma of clove and cinnamon circulate throughout your house. It will last for a few hours. It’s a natural air freshening too so it will neutralise the air even after the scent is gone. 

My toddler has developed a dairy allergy.

You can easily swap out the yogurt and cream for coconut yogurt which is delicious too! For the cookies, I have another great recipe for vegan cookies here

Milk can be replaced by oat, almond or soya milk. Vegan Butter can replace the regular Butter.

Egg Free Muffins for babies

If you are looking for an egg free muffin, you could try this recipe. Simply leave out the mango and add in the molasses and spices to make a delicious

Gluten Free Muffin Recipe

If your baby or anyone in the family has an allergy to gluten, you can swap out the regular flour for Buckwheat flour. I love the Dove Farm one which can be found in most health stores. Its

Refer to Vegan and Dairy free section of Website for further substitutes on other recipes.

I hope you love this easy Christmas recipe! It’s;

Soft
Easy
Spiceful
Festive
& SO delicious!

More Christmas Desserts Recipes your Family will Love!

Santa Brownies
Courgette Healthy Brownies
Baby Mince Pies

If you try this, let us know! Leave a comment, rate it and don’t forget to tag us on Instagram #babyledfeeding 

Aileen xoxox