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Get recipes for gingerbread cookies, gingerbread cake, gingerbread muffins—even gingerbread waffles and pancakes. These treats will fill your home with the scents of nutmeg, ginger, cloves and more.
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Classic Gingerbread Cookies

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Flavored with molasses, ginger, cinnamon and cloves, these traditional gingerbread cookies are perfect both for decorating and eating!Classic Gingerbread Cookies

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Glazed Gingerbread Cake

Glazed Gingerbread Cake

Lemon glaze and a sprinkle of crystallized ginger enhance the flavor and presentation of this old-fashioned gingerbread.Glazed Gingerbread Cake

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Crispy Gingerbread

The nose-tickling scents of ginger and clove float from ovens as pepparkakor bakes. Gingerbread is a Scandinavian holiday staple, with crisp cookies shaped into animals, hearts or petite cottage walls.Our recipe yields cookies sturdy enough for houses but delicious for snacking in any shape. Whether you use a gingerbread house cookie cutter as we did or improvise, here are a few pro construction tips: Measure and trim the warm cookies for clean edges. Then decorate all pieces (walls, roof, chimney) separately and let them dry. Use soup cans or crumpled foil to support the joined walls from the inside as they dry, and wait until the walls are fully set to attach the roof. (Insert pins until the roof dries, if necessary.)Crispy Gingerbread

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Gingerbread Pancakes

Gingerbread Pancakes

This recipe features ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, molasses and fresh-picked apples sliced paper-thin.Gingerbread Pancakes

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Easy Gingerbread Pudding Cake

Store-bought gingerbread mix makes this warm, gooey dessert extra easy to assemble. Gingerbread Pudding Cake

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Gingerbread Scones

Gingerbread Scones

Ginger and molasses unite in our spicy breakfast bread. Ground ginger and crystallized ginger give a double dose of the popular seasoning.Gingerbread Scones

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Gingerbread Waffles with Hot Lemon Curd Sauce

Gingerbread Waffles with Hot Lemon Curd Sauce

The B&B Southmoreland on the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri, shared their recipe for spicy waffles.Gingerbread Waffles with Hot Lemon Curd Sauce

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Gingerbread Cake Roll

Gingerbread Cake Roll

If this isn't a forkful of fall, we don't know what is. The cinnamon, molasses and maple glaze transport us to bonfires and hayrack rides in just one bite.Gingerbread Cake Roll 

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Gingerbread-Sour Cream Muffins

Gingerbread-Sour Cream Muffins

We took a traditional holiday dessert ingredient -- gingerbread -- and turned it into a muffin. Crystallized ginger tops off these treats.Gingerbread-Sour Cream Muffins recipe

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Gingerbread Cupcakes

Gingerbread Cupcakes

These crackly-topped low-calorie cupcakes will remind you of gingersnap cookies.Gingerbread Cupcakes

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Gingerbread Tea Cake

Gingerbread Tea Cake

Set a lacy doily on top of this moist, spiced cake before sprinkling with powdered sugar to get a pretty pattern suitable for tea time.Gingerbread Tea Cake recipe

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