Breezy Bakes

Gluten Free Gingerbread Cupcakes

December 5, 2018 By Brielle

Santa is sure to visit your house this season with a plate of these Gluten Free Gingerbread Cupcakes waiting his arrival! Make them extra special with a buttery graham cracker crust and cinnamon molasses cream cheese frosting.

Are ya’ll having a holly jolly Christmas yet?! I sure hope so. Despite the chaos, clutter, craziness of the holidays, there is nothing better than Christmas music, a plateful of Christmas goodies, and some of your favorite people snuggled up by your side.

I give that description as if this is my house during the holiday season. Nope; it’s not. Despite what you may think, it ain’t no Hallmark holiday special over here during the month of December. This is how our “holly jolly” holiday season has panned out so far:

I broke my toe on Thanksgiving. You can read all about that fun misfortune on my previous post. No need to bore you again with that story, although I will say that my poor toe has graduated from sore and throbbing to just achy and occasionally numb…not sure if that is normal or not. Oh well.
I’ve mopped my kitchen about half a dozen times. Apparently when your kids help you make 500 dozen Christmas goodies, layers of powdered sugar, dried egg whites, and splotches of greasy butter become the new finish on your floor.
The hatchback door on my car broke which made for some sketchy Christmas deliveries. We had to put all the seats down and shove platefuls of Christmas goodies to the back from the side doors. Braelyn cruised around with no seat belt (or even seat, nonetheless) corralling the goodies as we ran a muck through the neighborhood.
My children and husband continue to remind me that despite it being festive to join in with the Christmas stations, I should still NEVER ever sing.
After an excruciating ten hours of Christmas decorating, which included hanging Christmas lights, we shorted out the most important strand of colored lights on our roof. We replaced it and immediately shorted out another strand. It looks like only half our house will be lit this season because I’m totally over it. Also, I already used up my nine lives hanging lights on the roof in the first place, so I’m not about to go up there again! Let’s not push my mediocre lucky streak any further.
I finally got Christmas cards ordered. Yes, this sounds positive. However, the one and only decent picture of our family wouldn’t upload. Santa, please bring me a new computer! Not only were there issues with the pictures, but I couldn’t think of a single exciting thing to say about myself. Ordering Christmas cards quickly turned into a depressing pity party and a possible midlife crisis on my end.
The parental joys of having THREE elves on the shelf have begun. Enough said.