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Gingerbread Recipes To Spice Up Your Holidays

By Midwest Living editors Updated November 15, 2022
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Gingerbread cookies, cakes, muffins, waffles and pancakes will fill your home with the magical scents of nutmeg, ginger, cloves and more.

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Gingerbread Latte Cake

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Rebekah Stuber of Bay Laurel Baking Company in Des Moines says her flavor-packed spice cakes always earn the most raves. Her secret to airy cream cheese frosting? Folding in whipped cream.

Related: Meet Five Midwest Cake Creators (and Try Their Recipes)

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Crispy Gingerbread

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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.)

Related: 11 Scandinavian Cookie Recipes

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Cocoa Gingerbread with Heaven Frosting

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A humble snack dresses up for company. With its nutty flavor and tiny flecks of toasted milk solids, browned butter elevates a simple cream cheese frosting to saintly levels.

Related: Ultimate Cake Recipes

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Pumpkin Gingerbread Truffles

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Gingersnaps, cream cheese, pumpkin and chocolate make an unbeatable combo. 

Related: Pumpkin Recipes We Absolutely Love

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Glazed Gingerbread Cake

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

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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.

Related: Christmas Cookie Recipes to Treasure

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Gingerbread Pancakes

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

Related: Perfect Pancake Recipes

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

Related: Divine Slow-Cooker Desserts

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Gingerbread Scones

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

Related: Must-Try Recipes for Scones

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Gingerbread Waffles with Hot Lemon Curd Sauce

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The B&B Southmoreland on the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri, shared their recipe for spicy waffles.

Related: Festive Brunch Recipes

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Gingerbread Cake Roll

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The cinnamon, molasses and maple glaze will transport you to bonfires and s'mores in just one bite.

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Gingerbread-Sour Cream Muffins

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We took a traditional holiday dessert ingredient—gingerbread—and turned it into a muffin. Crystallized ginger tops off these treats.

Related: Quick and Easy Muffin Recipes

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Gingerbread Cupcakes

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

Related: Our Best Cupcake Recipes

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