[[!meta title="Honey Baked Ham Cupcakes"]]
Makes 17-20 cupcakes (If you aren't baking in ham, this recipe would produce fewer cupcakes.)

## Ingredients
+ 1 3/4 C all-purpose flour
+ 1 1/2 t baking powder
+ 1/2 t baking soda
+ 2 t ground cinnamon
+ 1/4 t ground cloves
+ 1/4 t ground allspice
+ 1/2 C vegetable oil
+ 1/2 C honey
+ 3/4 C granulated sugar
+ 1/4 C brown sugar
+ 2 large eggs, room temperature
+ 1/2 t vanilla extract
+ 1/2 C pineapple juice
+ 1/2 C whiskey
+ 17-20 thinly sliced pieces of ham (I used Black Forest ham, which has those nice looking black edges.)

## Directions

In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking
soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves and allspice. Add oil, honey, white
sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, juice, and whiskey. If you use
the same measuring cup and you measure your oil before the honey,
it will be easier to get all of the honey out of the cup. Using a
strong wire whisk or in an electric mixer on slow speed, stir
together to make a thick, well-blended batter, making sure that no
ingredients are stuck to the bottom. Place one slice of ham in
each well of the cupcake tin. Try to make sure that the part on
the bottom and sides of the pan has no holes in it. I found that
most of the slices of ham I bought had holes, so I just ensured
that the holes were positioned toward the top of the cupcake tin.
Spoon batter into the ham, as shown in the photo above.

Bake at 350 F for 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
If you put this recipe into a normal cupcake liner sans ham, it
will bake in about 20 minutes.

## Cream cheese frosting
### Ingredients
+ 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
+ 1/4 C (half stick) butter, room temperature
+ 1 t vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
+ 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon (add more to taste)
+ 2-3 C powdered sugar (add more or less to make it a stiffness that you like)
### Directions
+ Mix cream cheese and butter well.
+ Add vanilla and cinnamon.
+ Add powdered sugar.

[[!tag desert cupcakes]]