Gingerbread Recipes
Everything Gingerbread
Ginger, molasses, sugar, butter and flour are the basic building blocks of gingerbread cake and cookie dough. This lens is a collection of recipes for basic gingerbread cake and variations, cookie dough, pancakes, puddings, scones and even a gingerbread latte or martini!. You'll also find instructions, books, and tools for creating gingerbread houses. When I started this lens I had no idea that such a wide variety of recipes have been created using the gingerbread base. It appears to be a hu...

Gingerbread Recipes for the Holidays
Gingerbread is made in many forms, depending on what country you are in. 2 ingredients that are in almost every recipe are ginger & molasses. Soft as in cakes and breads or hard that is used for cookies. In Germany gingerbread is made in a harder form, served at carnivals and street markets such as the Christmas markets that occur in many German towns. The hard gingerbread is cut in decorative shapes, and then decorated with candies and icing. The tradition of cutting gingerbread into shapes...

The Best-Ever Ginger Crinkles Molasses Cookie Recipe
An Easy and Delicious Recipe For Ginger Crinkles
This recipe for ginger crinkles is definitely a favorite in my house.  It is one which we associate with the holidays although there is nothing to keep you from devouring these cookies all year around. It is an extremely easy recipe with all of the ingredients coming together in two bowls with a wooden spoon. You then shape the dough into small balls, roll them in sugar and place them on the pan.  Nothing could be easier. When the cookies are finished cooking, the result will be cookies that ...

Old Fashioned Gingerbread
Imagine this... your house smells of Ginger and Cloves.... it's a warm comforting smell... your mouth starts watering in anticipation. Then you hear it..... BING! The oven timer goes off, and it's time to pull the Old Fashioned Gingerbread out of the oven. Oh wow... it looks perfect... brown from the molasses, domed high from baking, and it smells like Mrs. Claus's Workshop. You let it cool for five minutes, flip it out of the pan, and slice yourself a BIG piece. (Because it's Christmas t...