15 Gingerbread Recipes for Cookies, Cakes and Treats
Ginger is one of THE most delicious spices and what better way to use it than in making mouthwatering gingerbread?! From traditional gingerbread cookies to festive cakes, holiday breakfast bakes and gingerbread desserts, these recipes are full of warming ginger and spice.
Now of course gingerbread is wonderful to serve in the fall, especially at Thanksgiving and thanks to the Scandinavians, it’s also super popular at Christmas.
Choose a recipe for cookie decorating, edible gifts, Christmas morning or a festive dessert table. Each recipe below comes from a top food blogger. To fill out a mixed tin, pair your gingerbread with a few of these easy Christmas cookies for gift boxes.
Cookies, Cakes and Festive Desserts
Gingerbread Cookie Bars
These soft gingerbread cookie bars are so easy to make—no dough chilling or rolling required! Top with spiced cream cheese frosting.
Gingerbread Cookies
This gingerbread cookie recipe is perfect for the holidays! The festive treats are soft, warmly spiced and full of delicious molasses flavor.
Classic Gingerbread Loaf
This super easy gingerbread loaf cake is heavily spiced, with a perfect moist texture. It comes together in only a saucepan and a bowl and is a great holiday loaf cake.
Best Sourdough Gingerbread Cake
A simple, step-by-step recipe for THE BEST moist and fluffy sourdough gingerbread cake made with tangy sourdough discard.
Gingerbread Bars
Gingerbread bars are a delicious treat to share this holiday season. Make-ahead and freezer-friendly recipe.
Gingerbread Cupcakes
These Gingerbread Cupcakes are perfectly spiced and ultra moist with a tender, fluffy crumb and topped with caramel frosting.
Soft and Chewy Gingerbread Blondies
Gingerbread blondies are soft, chewy and full of warm spices. Easy, one bowl recipe with classic flavor. Great for holiday baking and gifting!
Gingerbread Biscotti
Gingerbread biscotti are twice-baked Italian cookies with warm spices and a traditional sweet glaze - perfect for holiday gifting and coffee dunking.
Gingerbread Cinnamon Rolls
These gooey gingerbread cinnamon rolls are soft and fluffy, filled with delicious brown sugar gingerbread filling, frosted with eggnog cream cheese frosting, all while drenched in a truly decadent and sticky brown sugar gingerbread caramel sauce on the bottom. An absolutely incredible, indulgent treat to bake for Christmas!
Gingerbread Cream Pie
Add this Gingerbread Cream Pie to your Cream Pie Recipes list! It's a great break from pumpkin and perfectly fits the holiday season!
Gingerbread Crinkle Cookies
These gingerbread crinkle cookies are chewy in the middle and crispy on the edges. The crinkly tops make them a showstopper on cookie trays.
Christmas Fluffy Gingerbread Pancakes
Delicious Christmas fluffy gingerbread pancake recipe - the perfect Christmas pancakes that are THICK and fluffy and naturally sweetened!
Gingerbread Pecan Wreath
This Gingerbread Pecan Wreath is a delightful and aromatic dessert that fills the air with scents of cinnamon, ginger, and molasses and embodies the essence of the holidays. A beautifully braided spiced gingerbread dough wreath gets it fluffiness from Platinum® Yeast from Red Star® Yeast and is studded with crunchy Schermer Pecans that add a
Gingerbread Trifle
This easy gingerbread trifle layers cake, pudding, dulce de leche, whipped cream, and cookies for a festive, make-ahead holiday dessert everyone will love.
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