Step by step
Put the icing in a pastry bag with a small nozzle (0.5 cm) in a star shape, and decorate the cupcakes. You can add chopped almonds, cherries and coloured sugar if you wish.
Tips
The best accompaniment for your gingerbread cupcakes with meringue and almond icing, especially during Christmas, is a lovely mulled wine.
Trivia
The recipe for gingerbread cupcakes is clearly of Anglo-Saxon origin and is so named due to the fact that these cakes used to be made using ingredients measured by the cup.