19 Amazing Gingerbread Recipes You Need To Make This Holiday Season

Truffles are the ultimate one-bite wonder, and these gingerbread ones have a delightful touch of holiday magic in each bite. Bonus: They’re rolled in crushed gingersnaps for a zippy ginger bite and a pleasingly crunchy texture.

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For us, gingerbread should have a lot of ground ginger, a bit of cinnamon, and a tiny amount of cloves. It's the perfect Christmas formula. But if you don't have cloves (or really loathe them), you can just leave them out. As for the ginger, it's necessary but negotiable. Feel free to use less.

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Building a gingerbread house from scratch might sound like a huge undertaking when you can just reach for a kit—but it's not! We've got the best tips for assembly, so you can get creative and focus on the decoration.

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With only five ingredients—sweetened condensed milk, white chocolate, and gingerbread spices—this holiday fudge is insanely easy to make.

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Want your kitchen to smell like Christmas? Make gingerbread cake! Enjoy it warm or cold, for breakfast or after dinner, plain or topped with whipped cream, from a plate with a fork or straight out of your hand. No judgment here.

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Move over, gingerbread cookies. You can get all that spicy molasses flavor, plus caramel frosting in these easy bars. The gingerbread people-shaped sprinkles optional, but they ARE cute if you can find 'em.

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Gingerbread cookies are a holiday staple. That said, no one EVER turns down a slice of cheesecake at our holiday celebrations. This beauty merges the two for a festive cheesecake worthy of your holiday table. (Plus, the purists in the group still get their cookies! 😅)

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Cutest Christmas dessert of all time? We think so! Feel free to use store-bought or homemade gingerbread people here. Hot tip: This is also a great way to use any left over from making a gingerbread house.

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The holidays are the time to binge on gingerbread, and the only way to make it taste better? Caramel sauce.

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Don't have the time to decorate gingerbread cookies? We feel you. These blondies have everything you love about them but are way easier to make. They're spicy and chewy and might just become your new holiday go-to!

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Out of all of our amazing keto desserts (we have a lot), these easy low-carb gingerbread cookies might be the most adorable. Cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg are what make gingerbread taste so nostalgic and Christmas-y. Not carbs.

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These adorable gingerbread bread puddings are perfect for a holiday dinner party. Bonus? Because they're mini, no one has to share!

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Christmas without gingerbread? No thanks. We kept this loaf cake simple, so you can serve it all day long, from Christmas breakfast to dessert.

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Gingerbread men are great, but just wait until you've tried these. Store-bought gingerbread cookie dough—particularly the kind that comes in already rolled-out sheets—is a huge time-saver. If you want to make your dough from scratch, though, try our gingerbread cookies recipe.

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Gingerbread MAN, these are good! We used melted caramel chips to make the mousse here, but feel free to swap for store-bought or homemade caramel sauce if you like (and then drizzle some over top too!).

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We took our love of classic banana bread and gingerbread cookies and turned it into a seasonal combo that is unbeatable. The spices, molasses, and dark brown sugar help bring out the bananas' intense flavor. It’s the perfect dessert—or breakfast. Hey, it’s the holidays, after all!

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Nothing screams, "It's the holidays!" like the smell of gingerbread. Embrace that sweet, earthy spice mix with this these muffins that will get you through these cold winter months with a smile.

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Lick your spoon clean: Made with stevia sweetener, this spiced, layered trifle is absolutely guiltless. You might just want to put the butterscotch sauce on everything.

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We're presenting a very special treat this holiday season: a gingerbread recipe that's been handed down through the generations of our Video Director Julia's family! It's super-spicy, super-dark, and super-rich with that molasses-y goodness. Yum!

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