Martha Stewart's Gingerbread Cupcakes with Gingerbread Cutouts

Although I am not "officially" a member, I have decided to bake along with the Martha Stewart Cupcake baking people. 

It's another group that gets a book and selects different things in it to cook and discuss and blog.  This is a fun thing to do!  If you enjoy the process, it makes it more enjoyable to share it with like minded people. 

I share my enthusiasm with my DH and he tries very hard to be attentive but I can see the glassy eyed look I get.  Belonging to a baking group means he doesn't have to act interested and he gets to eat some new and hopefully tasty things.

This Martha Stewart Cupcakes book has "175 inspired ideas for everyone's favorite treat".  I'll say!

I've always been a Martha fan.  Since way back.  When her show first came on and the only way you could get the recipe was to write it down while you watched!  Yes, before the website!

Back then you had to be careful which recipe you wanted to try though because she has a way of using some obscure and hard to find things!  And I remember trying to find some particular ingredient to make some particular recipe and since I have to follow a recipe to the letter or I have a melt down I had to have it and when I found it it was so expensive I decided to chuck the whole thing!  And that started a whole other thing!  Don't get me started!

Things are easier to find today and the internet is full of sources for things and sites that tell you what you can use "in place of".

This month's recipe was for Gingerbread Cupcakes with Gingerbread cutouts.  It has no obscure or hard to find ingredients.