Homemade gingerbread is a Christmas tradition. Nothing screams the holiday season more than fresh, warm, and cozy gingerbread. You can spice up your holidays with gingerbread cookies, cake, and more! These homemade gingerbread recipes are guaranteed to fill your house with the smell and warmth of delicious Christmas gingerbread.
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Not only does homemade gingerbread taste and smell amazing, it also benefits your stomach in multiple ways! Ginger has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects making it perfect for stomachaches. The holidays tend to come with a lot of over eating and stomachaches so having some homemade gingerbread on deck isn’t a bad idea.
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Expert Tips for Making Gingerbread Recipes
There is so many different kinds of way to incorporate gingerbread into your food. Gingerbread recipes are perfect for hosting a holiday get-together, watching your favorite holiday movie, and even gift giving. Making homemade gingerbread is rather easy, just remember to keep the dough moist and soft.
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- Moist Gingerbread: While making gingerbread, if you notice your dough is too crumbly mix in 1 tbsp of milk until the dough becomes soft again.
- Chilling Tip: Chilling gingerbread dough for at least two hours gives the ingredients a chance to absorb one another, making it so much easier to roll out the dough without it cracking.
- Cookie Cutter: If you want to make gingerbread men and fun shaped Christmas cookies, try out these festive cookie cutters.
Homemade Gingerbread Cookies
While gingerbread men are a classic gingerbread cookie, there are plenty of other types of gingerbread cookies that are just as tasty, if not more! These homemade gingerbread cookies are exactly what you need to start off your holiday season.
Classic old-fashioned gingerbread cookies. Bust out your cookie cutter and make this classic Christmas treat! You can cut them into gingerbread men or use any other fun shape.
Soft, chewy chocolate gingerbread cookies! Made with dark chocolate, cocoa powder, and fresh ginger.
Did you know that you can make reindeer cookies using an upside down gingerbread man cookie cutter? These are so fun to make and the kids will enjoy helping.
Soft Gingerbread Sandwich Cookies filled with Vanilla Buttercream are my favorite way to enjoy gingerbread. Great for the holidays for homemade gifts.
Chocolate Cranberry Gingerbread Cookies are sweet, gingerbread spiced chocolate cookies are filled with dried cranberries and miniature chocolate chips.
Gingerbread Biscotti is a delicious spiced cookie drizzled with white chocolate that is perfect when dunked into your favorite hot beverage.
Let’s make Soft Gingerbread Cookies this holiday season! Soft, pillowy gingerbread with sunken centers and slightly crisped edges, plus little nooks and crannies packed with ginger spice and molasses. These are SO GOOD!
These Gingerbread Cookies are soft, chewy, and lightly spiced—and have no molasses! They’re fantastic with a cup of tea!
Traditional cut-out gingerbread cookies are spiced with grated orange peel for a subtle new taste.
Traditional soft ginger cookies made extra special with the addition of brown butter, molasses and a lovely sweet and tart lemon icing.
These soft gingerbread cookies get more rave reviews than any other cookie I make! A quick, easy, chewy gingersnap molasses cookie recipe.
These aren’t your average sugar cookies though, these are the thin, crispy kinds that are super addicting. These are also extra special because we’ve made our own traditional German gingerbread spice which give these cookies SUCH a nice gingerbread flavor.
These Gingerbread Cheesecake Cookie Cups are the perfect way to start off Christmas! A soft, chewy gingerbread cookie cup is filled with a brown sugar spiced no bake cheesecake. SO good!
Soft, chewy eggnog stuffed gingerbread cookies with a creamy eggnog filling. These tasty cookies are perfect for your holiday cookie exchange!
Santa, meet your new favorite cookie. I’m seriously obsessed with these Gingerbread Linzer Cookies with dulce de leche centers!
Gingerbread Cocktail Recipes
If you’re looking for a delicious holiday themed cocktail for this coming holiday season, then these gingerbread cocktail recipes will be perfect for you.
This gingerbread martini recipe is a delicious Christmas drink with Baileys, the absolute best Christmas Cocktail to enjoy with friends and family or at your next holiday party.
Looking for a yummy holiday cocktail idea? This Ginger Snap Cocktail tastes just like a Christmas cookie! Fantastic for a holiday party!
With the colder season upon us, there is nothing quite as cozy as a Warm Gingerbread Cocktail. Made with a spiced gingerbread simple syrup and milk.
This gingerbread white Russian is the perfect holiday cocktail full of rich coffee flavor mixed with a sweet molasses drizzle. Say cheers!
This warming cocktail is just as nice without the vodka – simply leave it out to enjoy a family- friendly mocktail
This Spiked Gingerbread Eggnog recipe is creamy, delicious and taste identical to gingerbread cookie with a hint of bourbon. The perfect holiday cocktail.
I love gingerbread and I love cocktails! So I give you my Gingerbread Baileys Holiday Cocktail for your festive season. Now go forth and be merry!
Everyone’s favorite Christmas cookie gets a grown-up twist in this must-make holiday cocktail.
Gingerbread Cakes
While cookies are the most known Christmas dessert, sometimes you got to switch it up and have a good cake. These gingerbread cakes are the perfect combination of moist, delicious, and cozy, they will be sure to please everyone!
Quick and easy gingerbread recipe, made with simple ingredients. This old fashioned, classic gingerbread cake is soft, moist, loaded with molasses & spices. Baking this gingerbread or ginger cake is one of the highlights of my holiday season.
Ultra-moist and rich pumpkin gingerbread coffee cake with a crumb topping! Pumpkin Gingerbread Crumb Coffee Cake.
Light, moist and full of rich gingery, molasses, spiced flavor. This Gingerbread Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting is perfect for serving this Christmas!
A moist, homemade gingerbread cake filled with homemade white chocolate pudding and topped with whipped cream and caramel sauce — great for Christmas!
Soft gingerbread and tart cranberries come together in this low calories dessert for one.
Moist, tender, spicy gingerbread baked as a bundt-style cake.
Celebrate the holidays in style with this incredible Christmas Gingerbread Cake. Three layers of moist gingerbread are covered with a cream cheese frosting for an amazing Christmas dessert that will impress everyone!
Here’s an exceptionally simple recipe for super moist gingerbread spice snack cake. The spice flavor is incredible!
This super moist, mild flavored Gingerbread Cake is topped with homemade caramel icing to create an easy dessert that is perfectly delicious!
Old-fashioned gingerbread is a Christmas classic. This moist cake has a delicious ginger molasses flavor with hints of brown sugar and cinnamon. It tastes warm and cozy, and is delicious served warm with butterscotch sauce and whipped cream.
This No Bake Pumpkin Gingerbread Icebox cake is the best make-ahead holiday dessert for Thanksgiving or Christmas! Only 5 ingredients, and takes 15 minutes to make!
Other Gingerbread Recipes
If cookies and cakes aren’t your favorite, don’t worry! There is plenty of other gingerbread recipes that are fun, festive, and tasty.
Gingerbread House White Chocolate Bark is a fun and festive Christmas Bark sprinkled with marshmallows, soft peppermints, gumdrops, M&Ms, and of course ginger cookies!
Soft and fluffy pancakes that taste just like gingerbread cookies! They’re perfectly spiced and flavorful, and it’s like a treat for breakfast that no one can resist.
These spice and chocolate cakes can brighten up your day, whether you’ve had a very tired Monday at work or are bored at home on a Sunday.
Want to spice up classic cinnamon rolls? Our gingerbread cinnamon rolls go great with coffee, tea, milk, and more. Eat for breakfast or as a snack.
These Gingerbread Chocolate Chip Muffins are a delicious treat to make with your Christmas morning breakfast! Whole wheat and dairy free too!
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Gingerbread Cheesecake is creamy and tangy and full of warm holiday flavors that is the perfect ending to your favorite holiday meal.
Christmas gingerbread donuts are baked in donut tins to make a festive holiday breakfast treat.
A super easy and festive gingerbread pie made with Athens Foods’ phyllo dough sheets and topped with fresh whipped cream!
I love a good make-ahead breakfast. Especially when it’s buttery soft French toast that tastes a lot like soft gingerbread and molasses cookies.
Deliciously creamy gingerbread fudge that is made in the microwave, loaded with flavour, and finished off with white chocolate!
This gingerbread pots de creme combines seasonal flavors of ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg with butterscotch and bourbon with a dash of smoky sea salt to come together in a silky, creamy and perfectly spiced custard.