The Great Big Gingerbread Roundup: 25 Recipes

While I like to play with pumpkin recipes in the fall, my heart really belongs to gingerbread. When I was small, I would buy a box of gingerbread mix at the grocery store. Every December, I would decide what I wanted to make with it: gingerbread cake or gingerbread men. If I diligently followed the box’s directions for cake, I’d carefully craft a rose of canned whipped cream on top and eat it warm, just out of the oven. If I decided on the more labor intensive ginger people (and moons, houses, and cats too), I’d spend time decorating the figures with colored gel pens, raisins, and m&ms. They always tasted best plain, but half the fun was in decorating. Okay, maybe three quarters.

Now, I bake my gingerbread desserts from scratch, taking pleasure in the precise measurements and time spent in the kitchen whisking or whirring the mixer. The smell always brings my family into the kitchen from wherever they are in the house. And when my little cousins come over, I lower the cooling rack and let them pick which gingerbread man they want.

December is for gingerbread. Get your spices out and see what happens.

Breads & Muffins:

Gingerbread Cinnamon Rolls with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting – The Law Student’s Wife

Gingerbread Loaf – Sprinkled With Jules

Gingerbread Muffins – The Lean Green Bean

Breakfast:

Gingerbread Granola – Cookie + kate

Gingerbread Pancakes – Alida’s Kitchen

Gingerbread Apple Pancakes – Healthy Seasonal Recipes

Chocolate Gingerbread Granola – The Almond Eater

Gluten Free Gingerbread Protein Pancakes – The Lemon Bowl

Snacks:

Gingerbread Glazed Roasted Nuts – Diary of an Ex Sloth

Smoothies:

Energizing Gingerbread Smoothie – JJBegonia

Gingerbread Pecan Butter & Gingerbread Smoothie – Ari’s Menu

Pumpkin Gingerbread Smoothie – oh she glows

Desserts:

Gingerbread Bread Pudding – Kara Lydon

Raw Gingerbread Snowballs– The Almond Eater

Gingerbread Pumpkin Cheesecake with Walnut Gingersnap Crust – Healthy, Seasonal Recipes

Quinoa Gingerbread Cookies – Noshed

 Ginger Molasses Cake with White Chocolate Glaze – Ari’s Menu

Pumpkin Spice Crumble with Gingerbread Pecan Topping – Veggie Desserts

Construction Gingerbread for Gingerbread Houses – King Arthur Flour

Gluten-free gingerbread cookies – King Arthur Flour

100% Whole Grain Pumpkin Gingerbread – Texanerin

Gingerbread Biscotti – Smitten Kitchen

Pumpkin Gingerbread – Snack Girl

Low-fat Gingerbread Cookies – Skinnytaste

Lightened Up Chocolate Gingerbread Brownies – Running With Spoons

Gingerbread Doughnuts – Weelicious