Here are 8 Of The BEST Homemade Gingerbread Recipes all in one place! Gingerbread is a yummy treat for all occasions, but especially for holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving!
Your family and friends will love these easy gingerbread recipes! Whether you’re craving gingerbread cookies, gingerbread cake or a sumptuous gingerbread hot chocolate, you’ll find it here!
8 Of The BEST Homemade Gingerbread Recipes
This basic homemade gingerbread recipe is in Volume 1 of our Dining On A Dime Cookbook. Gingerbread is one of my favorite fall desserts! Nothing says fall like pumpkin and gingerbread and this is a long time family favorite!
- If you don’t have whipped topping for your gingerbread, you can use some vanilla frosting on it.
- This gingerbread recipe can be made ahead of time and frozen after it is baked.
Easy Homemade Gingerbread Recipe
- Yield: 9 servings
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup molasses
1 cup sour milk or buttermilk
1 3/4 tsp. soda
2 1/4 cups flour
2 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. ground cloves
1/2 tsp. salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Mix everything in a bowl until smooth.
- Pour in a greased 9×9 inch pan.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes.
Honey Spice Snaps
I absolutely adore this Honey Spice Snaps recipe! It’s got that classic gingerbread taste, but without the overpowering molasses flavor. In fact, my family is not a big fan of molasses, so I make this recipe any time the kids want gingerbread! Every time I make it, they can’t get enough!
- Yield: 2 dozen
Ingredients
1 cup brown sugar, packed
3/4 cup shortening
1 egg
1/4 cup honey or dark corn syrup
1 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. cloves
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
2 1/4 cups all purpose four
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Cream brown sugar and shortening in a mixing bowl.
- Add the egg and honey or corn syrup and mix well.
- Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl.
- Stir into the sugar mixture until well blended.
- Shape into balls.
- Dip half the ball in water, then in sugar.
- Place sugar side up.
- Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet for 12-15 minutes.
Never Fail Freezer Gingerbread Recipe
Looking for a gingerbread recipe that’s both fail-proof and easy to make? Look no further than this homemade gingerbread recipe! The best part? You can even make it ahead of time and freeze it before baking. While the ingredient list may look long, don’t let that intimidate you – most of it is just spices. In fact, this recipe is incredibly easy to mix together, so you’ll be enjoying delicious gingerbread in no time!
Ingredients
1/2 cup boiling water
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup molasses
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. ginger
3/4 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. cloves
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Pour boiling water over shortening.
- Add sugar, molasses and egg.
- Mix the remaining ingredients together.
- Add to the liquids.
- Beat with an electric mixer.
- Pour into a greased 8×8 inch pan.
- Bake for 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Notes
If you want to Freeze the Gingerbread Dough for later:
Soft and Chewy Gingerbread Bars
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 cup molasses
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground ginger
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. cloves
1/8 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. baking soda
2 cups all purpose flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°.
- Mix butter and sugars until fluffy.
- Add egg, vanilla, and molasses
- Beat 1-2 minutes until lighter brown.
- Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well. The batter will be very thick.
- Pour into a 9×13 inch pan or an 8×8 inch pan* lined with parchment paper or foil and sprayed with cooking spray. Because the batter is think, you may have to pat it into the pan.
- Bake until it starts to turn a little brown on the edges.
Frosting
- Beat all ingredients together.
- Frost bars when cool.
Indulge in a warm and cozy cup of hot chocolate with a delightful twist of gingerbread. These Gingerbread Hot Chocolate and White Chocolate recipes are not only incredibly delicious, but they’re also perfect for cold winter days and holiday gatherings. With a blend of rich cocoa, fragrant spices, and creamy white chocolate, you’ll surely fall in love with this festive treat. Give it a try and let your taste buds take a ride to a winter wonderland!
Gingerbread Hot Chocolate Recipe
Indulge in a warm and cozy cup of hot chocolate with a delightful twist of gingerbread. These Gingerbread Hot Chocolate and White Chocolate recipes are not only incredibly delicious, but they’re also perfect for cold winter days and holiday gatherings.
Ingredients
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 cups milk
Instructions
- Combine everything but the milk in a saucepan over low heat.
- Then add the milk.
- Heat, whisking, until hot.
- Serve with whipped cream and sprinkle with cinnamon.
- Add a gingerbread cookie on the side.
Hot Gingerbread White Chocolate
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups milk
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
2 tsp. molasses
1/2 teaspoon apple pie spice (mix of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice and cardamom)
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients.
- Heat either on the stove or in the microwave.
- Top with whipped topping.
White Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies
It doesn’t get much better than walking in the door to the smell of gingerbread! This gingerbread cookies recipe tastes great any time of year but these cookies can really start getting you in the mood for the holidays now!
This gingerbread cookies recipe is great if you have a hurried schedule and have to get things done with just a few moments here and there. If you need to, you can make the dough ahead of time and let it set in the fridge for a few days before baking. You could also mix the batter in the morning and then bake a few cookies when the kids are arriving home from school.
If you don’t have white chocolate chips on hand, make some vanilla frosting or open a can of vanilla frosting to use on these instead. These cookies are fun to serve at a tea too with a dollop of whipped topping like a small tea cake or just sit down and eat some at the end of a long cold day with a hot cup of tea or coffee.
PrintWhite Chocolate Topped Gingerbread Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter, at room temperature
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup molasses
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
3 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Beat the butter and brown sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Add molasses, egg and vanilla; beat well.
- Add flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg and salt and mix to make a dough.
- Press dough into a flat disk.
- Wrap in plastic wrap and chill 4 hours or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Shape the dough into 1-inch balls.
- Roll in granulated sugar.
- Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until the edges of the cookies just begin to brown.
- Immediately press about 5-6 white chocolate chips into the center of each cookie.
- Remove to wire racks; cool completely.
- Store cookies in airtight container up to 5 days.
White Gingerbread Cake
Our readers are such great cooks and give us some of the best recipes. Here is a white gingerbread cake recipe from Bea that sounded different and interesting. If you don’t like the molasses flavor in regular gingerbread, this recipe may be for you because it has no molasses. It is like a spice cake.
I think it would be delicious for breakfast, dessert or snack and might be good drizzled with a little vanilla or caramel frosting.
PrintWhite Gingerbread Cake Recipe
Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Mix all ingredients into the flour mixture.
- Put 1/2 cup of the reserved topping on the bottom of a greased baking pan.
- Pour the batter on top.
- Sprinkle the other 1/2 cup topping over the top.
- Bake for about 35 minutes or until a toothpick pushed in the center comes out clean.
Gingerbread Milkshake Recipe
Ingredients
1 cup vanilla ice cream
1/4 cup milk
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp. ginger
1/2 Tbsp. molasses
Instructions
- Blend all ingredients in a blender.
- Garnish with some whipped topping.
- Add a little cinnamon.
Mom’s Homemade Gingerbread Men! Or Cookie Men as the kids call them!
For the last 25 years mom has made these cute gingerbread men for Christmas. She just sells them to friends and family but has made up to 500 dozen of the little ones (yes, that 5,000-7,000 gingerbread men) in November and December. She packages them by the dozen in cellophane bags tied with a piece of red curly ribbon.
A few years ago she came up with the big ones (at the top). They are about 12 inches tall and the kids just loved them. She gives one to each of the grandkids each Thanksgiving and most of it’s gone by the next morning! LOL
The best part is that they taste even better than they look! She found a great recipe years ago in an old cookbook and has used it ever since. (Sorry, we can’t give it out. When we are done with the book business we will go into the gingerbread men business. 🙂
I thought I would share a picture since everyone is always asking about them.
Tawra
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The recipe for the Never Fail Freezer Gingerbread Recipe says to bake it in an 8″x8″ (square) pan, but the photo shows a loaf of bread baked in a rectangular bread pan. Can you clarify?
I think that was the only picture they had of it at that time. You are suppose to bake it in an 8×8 pan. Sorry for the confusion.
Its hard to get an 8 x 8 pan now. Double recipe and put in 8 x 12.. Or cook longer in bread pan or bunt pan
I don’t know where you are Sharon but 8×8 pans are pretty common here and on line. You could use a 9×9 pan but it just won’t be quite as thick.
bah humbug, really hoped you would share the cookie man recipie! I really want to have a gingerbread man, hopefully one ii can make gluten free! guess I’ll have to pillage used cookbooks till I find something.
Love all the recipes you share and your wisdom. If I could make one suggestion though, it would be to please indicate self-rising or all-purpose in your recipes. Some have it but a lot do not.
Dorothy the norm for writing recipes is that when it says flour it means all purpose and if you are to use any other kind then you mention self rising, bread flour etc. that is why some have it and some don’t because all purpose is always used unless stated other wise.
Can you substitute gluten free flour and omit eggs in the gingerbread for the unfortunately allergic people like me with autoimmune disease who really misses gingerbread at Christmas! I used to make gingerbread men and spray to hang on tree. Punched a hole before baling. Of course we had some un sprayed ones to eat!
You could try to substitute the flour but often they don’t try out quite the same. I would use an egg substitute for the eggs if you can. Both will change the texture of it quite a bit if you aren’t careful but you could try.
The gingerbread hot and white chocolate both sound great. Now that the weather is getting colder and the holidays are almost here, these will be perfect. Thanks for sharing.
hello jill/tawra
i am looking for a recipe for cookies using the bisquick mix in your book
can i make cookies with it??
he who thinks he must be obeyed (lol) – isnt a fan of muffins hence why i ask
thanks
liz
Liz I don’t have a lot of Bisquick cookie recipes but googled it and there is a bunch. You can pretty much can use any of your regular cookie recipes by leaving out the flour and baking powder or baking soda and replacing it with Bisquick.
MERRY CCHRISTMAS TO YOUTAWRATHANK YOU FOR ALLL TH E NICE RECIPIES IAM GOING TO MAKE THE GINGERBREAD CAKE RECIPIES AND A BLESSED NEW YEAR 2021 DIANE
DIANE
Hi from London. I wish to make a Gingerbread House (or two) actually. Not made before! I am hoping to use your basic Gingerbread recipe but Any suggestions in terms of strengthening the dough for walls, roof etc or is the recipe more than capable to accomplish this!? Thankyou for all your recipes, books and more! Richard
PS. Tried to buy Vol 1. Dime but unavailable in UK even through Amazon! We are all missing out here!
Does this not have an egg in it?
No it doesn’t.
This is absolutely delicious! Even my husband who doesn’t like gingerbread is enjoying a slice. Would be an easy beginner baker recipe , made with common ingredients it quickly goes together.