Best Cozy Gingerbread Recipes For the Holidays

These gingerbread recipes are delicious, sweetly spiced and aromatic, and perfect for a setting a cozy Christmas mood! From gingerbread cakes, cookies, candy, drinks, and more, these recipes are lovely holiday treats, and they make beautiful homemade gifts as well.

The molasses-heavy, spice-rich aromatic treat that's known as gingerbread is symbolic of Christmas. It's a traditional favorite with so many variations that there's something for everyone!

We've all seen beautifully decorated gingerbread houses. And of course gingerbread man cookies. I love traditional gingerbread recipes, but the fun doesn't stop there!

Gingerbread cakes, gingerbread candy, and gingerbread drinks are also festive favorites. Gingerbread can take any number of forms, each as festive as the last.

Here are a few different types of gingerbread recipes to suit your preference and satisfy whatever your craving is. They're all festive, full of holiday flavor, and perfect for Christmas.

Gingerbread Breakfast Recipes

There's nothing more festive than a house filled with gingerbread aroma! The holidays are all about making beautiful memories. Wake up early on a holiday or a wintry weekend and make one of these special treats for your family.

Gingerbread Scones Recipe

Gingerbread Scones are soft and fluffy inside and crisp and flaky outside with the perfect amount of warm spices and brown sugar sweetness.

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Gingerbread Baked Oatmeal

Tis’ the season for all things gingerbread! This Gingerbread Baked Oatmeal is lightly sweetened, easy to make, and full of holiday flavor that only takes a few minutes to throw together!

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Gingerbread Muffins Recipe

Subtly sweet, generously spiced and aromatic, this Gingerbread Muffins Recipe is an easy way to get in a festive mood!

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Gingerbread Donuts

Surprise your family with these Gingerbread Donuts! Super easy to make and so delicious!

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Gingerbread Pancakes

These soft and fluffy gingerbread pancakes are perfect for the holiday season. Use cookie cutters to add festive fruit inserts that kids will love.

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Gingerbread Instant Pot Steel Cut Oats

Instant Pot Steel Cut Oats with gingerbread flavors and an eggnog float is perfect choice for wintery mornings. Creamy, with a chewy bite, brimming with holiday flavors.

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Gingerbread Cinnamon Rolls

Fluffy and soft vegan Gingerbread Cinnamon Rolls or scrolls are perfect for Christmas! They're easy to make and more fun than classic cinnamon rolls.

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Gingerbread Granola

This Gingerbread Granola is a festive take on a classic recipe, flavoured with molasses and gingerbread spices.

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Gingerbread Cake Recipes

With everything from cake rolls, to cheesecakes, to pudding cakes, there is something for everyone in this list of gingerbread cake recipes! Whichever one you decide to start with, your family and friends are sure to love it.

Gingerbread Cake Roll Recipe

Soft cake that’s aromatic with warm spices and brown sugar is swirled with a rich, creamy maple cinnamon frosting to make this Gingerbread Cake Roll recipe something truly festive and special.

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Gingerbread Snack Cake with Earl Grey Glaze

Soft, moist, and richly spiced Gingerbread Snack Cake with Earl Grey Glaze is full of festive Christmas flavor, and is the perfect thing to accompany a steaming cup of holiday tea.

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Gingerbread Winter Wonderland Cheesecake

This Gingerbread Winter Wonderland Cheesecake is inspired by a Winter Wonderland theme. Made with delicious gingersnaps crust, creamy, decadent filling with amazing gingerbread flavors, and adorned with a mini gingerbread house and cute little holiday candies. It’s fun, festive dessert recipe perfect for the holidays!

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Chocolate Gingerbread Cake

This Chocolate Gingerbread Cake is a delicious twist on a holiday classic. A rich chocolate spice cake paired with a silky dark chocolate ganache.

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Instant Pot Gingerbread Pudding Cake

A self-saucing dessert, the intense aroma of gingerbread and gooey pudding-like texture makes this perfect with a scoop of ice cream or whipped cream. A wonderful treat for the holidays!

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Apple Gingerbread Cake

Apple Gingerbread Cake is easy to make and perfect for all your holiday gatherings. You can make it any time of year and oh my goodness your taste buds will thank you if you do.

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Gingerbread Bundt Cake

This Gingerbread Cake is incredibly rich and flavorful, and packed with the flavors of ginger, cinnamon, allspice, and molasses. The tart lemon glaze and sugared cranberries are the perfect compliment to the richness of the cake.

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Gingerbread Cookie Recipes

Gingerbread men and gingerbread houses are classics, but there are so many different forms of gingerbread cookies. Things like soft and chewy gingerbread cookies, gingerbread bar cookies, and even gingerbread edible cookie dough!

Soft and Chewy Molasses Cookies with Gingerbread Spices

These soft and chewy Molasses Cookies are full of warm gingerbread spices and rich buttery brown sugar flavor, and they take less than an hour to whip up!

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Gingerbread Biscotti

Traditional Italian cookies spiced with all the flavors of the holiday season; these Gingerbread Biscotti are ready for a dunk in some eggnog!

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Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies

These cookies are perfect for icing with Christmas frosting and decorating. This homemade recipe is chewy, crisp, spiced, and mellow. With hints of cocoa, cinnamon, clove, and molasses all the flavors of the holidays are so tasty.

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Gingerbread Spritz Cookies

Molasses and cozy spices really jazz up these Gingerbread Spritz Cookies! Made with a cookie press, this recipe is a great way to produce shaped holiday cookies quickly.

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Gingerbread Magic Cookies

Gingerbread Magic Cookies are complete with a gingerbread crust, cinnamon chips, and white chocolate. A fun and delicious take on gingerbread!

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Gingerbread Squares with Plum Jam and Chocolate (Lebkuchen Cookies)

These gingerbread squares are small pieces of gingerbread cake that are layered with plum jam and coated with chocolate glaze. This delicious treat is very popular in Austria and Germany.

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Vegan Chai Espresso Gingerbread Cookies

Not your ordinary gingerbread cookies! These are no-chill and no-spread, but also have warming chai spice and a kick of espresso!

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Gingerbread Edible Cookie Dough

Skip the traditional Christmas cookies and try this Gingerbread Edible Cookie Dough in cute-as-can be mini mason jars.

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Gingerbread Candy Recipes

Gingerbread even comes in the form of caramel, fudge, and marshmallows! Any of these treats would make a perfect homemade edible Christmas gift.

Gingerbread Caramels (Homemade Chewy Caramel Without Corn Syrup)

Gingerbread caramels are a fun and festive twist on classic soft and chewy caramel candy. If you’re looking for a homemade chewy caramel recipe with no corn syrup, this is the recipe for you and it's easier to make than you might think!

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Gingerbread Fudge

Soft gingerbread cookies are a classic Christmas treat, almost as popular as chewy fudge is during the holidays. We’ve combined the two vintage desserts into one epic seasonal treat: Gingerbread Cookie Dough Fudge.

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Gingerbread Marshmallows

Gingerbread Homemade Marshmallows have that quintessential Christmas flavor of molasses, cinnamon, nutmeg, and of course ginger. A perfect Christmas treat!

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Gingerbread Holiday Fudge

This delicious Gingerbread Holiday Fudge is perfect for Christmas parties and to give as DIY gifts. Serve it in a present shape or decorate with sprinkles.

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Gingerbread Caramels

Looking for a fun twist on the traditional salted caramel recipe? These Gingerbread Caramels are a delicious and a great Christmas candy to add to your holiday goodie making list. Caramel pairs awesomely with hints of molasses and ginger.

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Gingerbread Fudge

Gingerbread Fudge – Deliciously creamy gingerbread fudge that is made in the microwave, loaded with flavour, and finished off with a white chocolate topping!

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Gingerbread Drinks

There's nothing quite as cozy as curling up on the couch with a soft blanket and steaming gingerbread latte! Of course if you're in a warm climate, a gingerbread smoothie is perfectly festive too. And it doesn't stop there; gingerbread eggnog, anyone?

Gingerbread Syrup

Sweetly spiced homemade Gingerbread Syrup is perfect for making into a gingerbread latte!

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Gingerbread Martini

This Gingerbread Martini recipe is a delicious Christmas drink with Baileys! It's the absolute best Christmas cocktail to enjoy with friends and family or at your next holiday party.

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Barleycup Gingerbread Latte

This homemade Barleycup Gingerbread Latte is an easy, decadent, delicious hot drink. The quick gingerbread syrup adds ‘wow’ flavour to the classic latte. A great hot drink for winter that’s easily vegan.

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Cinnamon Gingerbread Eggnog

Enjoy the delicious flavors of gingerbread and cinnamon in a delightful cup of eggnog! Cinnamon Gingerbread Eggnog is a delicious drink to enjoy all winter long.

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Gingerbread Latte

Cozy, sweet and spicy Gingerbread Latte, made at home! All the flavors of Christmas in one sip.

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Healthy Chia Gingerbread Smoothie

This energizing, protein-rich Healthy Chia Gingerbread Smoothie has all your favourite gingerbread flavours. This holiday gingerbread smoothie recipe is naturally sweetened with banana, dates, and a hint of molasses.

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More Gingerbread Desserts

If you're feeling festive and want something a little bit different, try gingerbread popcorn, ice cream, dip, candied nuts, or anything else here! All of these recipes are full of holiday flavor. Additionally, they're great to whip up for a holiday movie night!

Gingerbread Popcorn

In this Gingerbread Popcorn recipe, sweet crunchy homemade caramel popcorn gets a festive twist with gingerbread spices and brown sugar!

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Gingerbread Brownies

These Gingerbread Brownies take the warm spiced flavors of gingerbread and combine it with a super fudgy brownie. Top with ice cream for a Christmas brownie sundae!

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Gingerbread Ice Cream

With warm spices and rich molasses, Gingerbread Ice Cream is a flavorful and simple no churn ice cream recipe that is perfect for the holiday season!

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Gingerbread Rice Krispie Treats

No-bake Gingerbread Rice Krispie treats are filled with delicious spices and taste like traditional gingerbread cookies.

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Gingerbread Cream Cheese Dip

Gingerbread Cream Cheese Dip is a super easy dessert dip that's perfect for cookies!

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Gingerbread Holiday Pecans

This holiday season, nosh on a handful of these spiced Gingerbread Holiday Pecans for a sweet and savory snack.

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Gingerbread Brownies

Gingerbread Brownies are simple to make and have a wonderful festive taste. The fudgy chocolate brownies are full of gingerbread spices and topped with gingerbread cookies.

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Healthy Gingerbread Treats

Did you know you can get your gingerbread fix in a healthy way? With everything from energy balls to healthy lattes and nutritious cookies!

Keto Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies

This Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies recipe is warmly spiced with rich notes of caramel, and has just 3g net carbs per cookie!

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Gingerbread Energy Balls

With the flavor of freshly baked gingerbread and lots of energy-boosting ingredients, these Gingerbread Energy Balls are going to power you through all your holiday to-dos!

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Healthy Gingerbread Latte

This Gingerbread Latte is so easy to make. Simply delicious + a much healthier version of Starbucks' holiday drink!

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Raw Gingerbread Cookie Bites

No bake Gingerbread Cookie Bites make a fun and tasty holiday treat that kids love to make and eat!

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Gingerbread Energy Balls

These no-bake Gingerbread Energy Balls are the perfect healthy way to get that spicy, warming flavor of gingerbread during the holidays! They’re flavored with lots of warming spices and sweetened naturally with raisins and dates, with just a hint of molasses. And the pecans add a perfect crunch.

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Gingerbread Breakfast Cookies

These Healthy Gingerbread Breakfast Cookies are the perfect nutritious, on-the-go breakfast! Gluten free, dairy free, low in sugar and so yummy!

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