Christmas is the season for gingerbread recipes!
While gingerbread textures vary — from moist, soft and chewy (yet usually still dense enough to use as a construction material in your Christmas crafts) to hard and crispy (think ginger snaps), those iconic warm and spicy flavors will have you feeling oh-so-very-merry.
Gingerbread ingredients typically include cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves — along with the ginger, of course. Brown sugar and molasses add rich, caramel-y flavor.
The gingerbread recipes featured in the collection below include everything from the traditional gingerbread men to a more modern cake-like confection as well as gingerbread house inspiration.
This medium-sized (4-inch) classic gingerbread man cookie cutter is made in the USA using certified food-safe American steel.
How did a character whose brief life ended so tragically become a hero of the happiest holiday? We have some theories plus four different vintage gingerbread man cookie recipes! In these recipes from the 1950s, find out how to make classic gingerbread cookies — pretty decorated cut-out Christmas cookies with that famous spicy flavor. This delicious gingerbread cake has a light and fluffy molasses meringue topping – perfect for the holidays! Here’s a collection of gingerbread houses to inspire you this holiday. Make a fairy-tale cottage, a half-timbered country house, a marvelous Victorian mansion — take your pick! Here are six ways to make warm and wonderful old-fashioned gingerbread — the kind of classic cookies and cakes your great-grandmother probably used to make! Crisp, freshly-baked gingersnaps, cooling in the kitchen, are sure to entice the whole family. Their appealing spice-laden aroma brings back for many of us, fond memories of the days when our own mothers and grandmothers were found in their kitchens baking such welcoming sweets for us.
Gingerbread man cookies: How did this tragic folklore hero ever become a happy Christmas tradition?
How to make charming Christmas cookies with these vintage gingerbread recipes from the 1950s
Gingerbread cake with molasses meringue topping recipe from 1965
28 classic gingerbread house ideas: Get inspired & find out how to make your own
6 traditional and extra old-fashioned gingerbread recipes (1910)
8 great classic gingersnap recipes
