25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (2024)

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Kick off the holiday season with a good ole gingerbread recipe! Luckily we have 25 delicious recipes for you to choose from.

1. Gingerbread Cake

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (2)I have been eyeing on this cake for quite sometime ever since i came across in nigella christmas cookbook. I wanted to try it so badly finally i made in couple days back. I don’t know about you, but I have a addiction towards spiced cakes. Spices works beautiful in baked goodies specially in cakes. And this is the answer for that.

2. Gingerbread Pancakes

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (3)These Christmas Gingerbread Pancakes are light and fluffy, with a hint of cinnamon and ginger – perfect for Christmas Day Breakfast!

3. Soft Gingerbread Cookies

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4. Gingerbread French Toast

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (5)Make your loved ones gingerbread French toast with cinnamon honey sauce! A great breakfast-in-bed or brunch recipe with a hint of Christmas & mouth-watering sauce!

5. Vegan Gingerbread Moose

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (6)A delicious, “healthyish” coconut mousse with the warm flavours of gingerbread. Vegan, gluten-free and absolutely addictive, this easy gingerbread mousse is sure to become a favourite!

6. Gingerbread Cake Roll

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (7)This Gingerbread Cake Roll is filled with a sweet and tangy Tangerine Curd and Vanilla WhippedCream! Perfect for any holiday occasion.

7. Warm Gingerbread Cake

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (8)I am still reminded that it is the holidays with the Christmas lights and holiday baking. And gingerbread. Love gingerbread! But this cake was THE BEST GINGERBREAD CAKE I have had in my life! In fact, it was probably one of the best cakes I have ever had! You guys will not even believe how amazing it is. It baked perfectly and was so moist. But the caramel sauce. Oh.my.gosh. The caramel sauce on top was mind blowing. It went together so well on top of this warm cake. And then with a dollop of fresh whipped cream. Wow! I can’t get over how incredible it was. If you know what is good for you run to the store and get the ingredients to make this. Your family will go nuts over this amazing cake. It is perfect for the holidays and so amazing, I might just make it year round!

8. Gingerbread Fudge

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (9)It appears this week is unofficially gingerbread week at Sweetest Menu. We’ve already eaten more then our fair share of Chocolate Chunk Molasses Cookies and now I have another sweet gingerbread treat for you. Smooth and creamy Spiced Gingerbread Fudge that is bursting with holiday flavours.

9. Gingerbread Cupcakes

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (10)Let me introduce you to gingerbread cupcakes. This cupcake recipe not only looks like it would make you want to suck the icing right out of the piping bag, but its one of the moistest spiced cake recipes I’ve made to date. Full of gingerbread flavor dressed with a basic cream cheese frosting.. it’s the thing that adult gingerbread dreams are made of.

10. Gingerbread Cookie Dough Bites25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (11)

11. Gingerbread Soufflé with Butterscotch Sauce

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (12)Let’s talk Gingerbread Soufflé and how incredibly delightful it is with a pouring of warm Butterscotch Sauce. A soft fluffy cake made with molasses and pumpkin spice, served with a dusting of powdered sugar and a drizzle of creamy butterscotch. If you haven’t tried your hand at baking a soufflé, I suggest you grab a few ramekins or mugs and try this recipe. Your gingerbread loving tastebuds will thank you!

12. Gingerbread Fig Bars

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (13)Flour covering every surface like kitchen snowfall.Metaloutlines of snowflakes and bellsand holly. Rolling pins and baking sheets haphazardly strewn. Stealing the scraggly bits of the cookie dough to nibble. Smell of sugar wafting. Oven warmth emanating. Timer beeping. Not an un-sticky surface in sight. That’s the stuff that Christmas cookies are made of. Yes, yes flour and sugar too, but the chaotic kitchen behind the sweet treats isthe real magic.

13. Gingerbread Muffins

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (14)I love this recipe for Gingerbread Muffins because they aren’t overly sweet and the flavour of gingerbread really comes through with each bite. They are a great addition to your morning coffee especially during the festive holiday season!

14. Gingerbread Cookie Bars

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (15)Gingerbread Cookie Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting are ultra thick, soft, and chewy with tons of aromatic spices and a generous layer of tangy frosting!

15. Gingerbread Cheesecake 25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (16)

16. Cider-Gingerbread Bundt Cake

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (17)The bold, rich flavors of boiled cider and gingerbread are perfectly matched in this ultra-moist cake, which brings these traditional fall and holiday flavors together. This recipe fits a smaller-sized, 5- to 6-cup Bundt pan, but can be easily doubled to fit a 10- to 12-cup pan. Small or large, though, this cake is always big on flavor.

17. Gingerbread Waffle

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (18)These Gingerbread Waffles are the perfect breakfast for the holiday season. They’re a little bit spicy, a little bit sweet, and completely delicious.

18. Toasted Almond Gingerbread Scones

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (19)We’re having Gingerbread Scones with Christmas breakfast. Gingerbread is a popular flavor this time of year and it makes a tasty scone. These are extra special with frosting and almonds throughout and on top.

19. Gingerbread Hot Chocolate

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (20)Rich and creamy Gingerbread Hot Chocolate spiked with all the very best gingerbread spices. The perfect festive drink!

20. Slow Cooker Gingerbread Pudding

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (21)Have you started planning for Christmas? The food I mean rather than the presents. If you want to have a change from a Christmas pudding, or are catering for a crowd and want an alternative to add to your menu, how about a slow cooker gingerbread pudding? Inspired by the flavours of sticky gingerbread cake, but served as a steamed pudding, this dessert is bound to please a crowd.

21. Gingerbread Sablé

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (22)Gingerbread Sablé, a Christmas twist on a traditional French butter biscuit.

22. Gingerbread Magic Cookies

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (23)Love magic cookies? Then you’ll go crazy for this gingerbread Christmas version of the classic! That’s right, it’s Gingerbread Magic Cookies, complete with a gingerbread crust, cinnamon chips, and white chocolate. It’s just as good as the original … hmmmm, perhaps even better!

23. Gingerbread Truffles

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (24)If you are looking for the best holiday snack, you have just found it. These Gingerbread Truffles are out of this world. The best part is, they only require a few ingredients, and come together in minutes.

24. Gingerbread Doughnuts

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (25)If you adore gingerbread men but want something a little healthier, then these Gluten Free Gingerbread Doughnuts are the perfect Christmas treat for you! Oven baked, they make a fantastic alternative to unhealthy fried doughnuts, and they’re packed with sensational Christmas flavours to keep you feeling festive. They’re even topped with a light cream cheese icing, helping to keep them low fat whilst remaining super tasty!

25. Gingerbread Roll

25 Festive Gingerbread Recipes - Brighter Craft (26)This Gingerbread Roll with Lemon Cream Cheese Filling – a delightful dessert that’s not too sweet, is loaded with warm, aromatic spices and flavored with just the right amount of molasses
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