500 ginger cake recipes

Honey-ginger snaps with cinnamon, cloves, and real honey for a chewier, more fragrant twist on classic gingersnap cookies. Chill, roll, and bake.

Card gingerbread cookies shaped into playing-card rectangles and scored with lines, made with molasses, brown sugar, ginger, and cinnamon. A vintage rolled cookie for the holidays.

Slice and bake gingersnap cookies with molasses, ginger, and cinnamon. Make the dough, freeze in logs, and bake fresh cookies anytime for up to six months.

Slice-and-bake molasses cookies with ginger, brown sugar, and a crisp, thin snap. Shape the dough into a log, chill, slice thin, and bake for 8 to 10 minutes.

Molasses ginger snaps with the classic crackled tops that form as the dough balls melt and spread. Warmly spiced with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves, these crisp-edged cookies are a holiday baking staple.

Joe Froggers, the giant New England molasses cookies. Spiked with rum, dark with molasses, warmed with ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice. Roll, cut big, bake.

Classic Joe Froggers are old-school New England molasses cookies sized like dinner plates, spiced with ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg for a chewy, sailor-strong bite that holds up for weeks in a tin.

Old-fashioned gingerbread cake with New Orleans-style molasses, ginger, and cinnamon. A moist, dark, warmly spiced snack cake served hot with whipped cream or applesauce.

Delicious, light and fluffy! These taste of Fall, and the crystallized ginger gives then a lovely little zing. Even people who don't like pumpkin love these cupcakes. These disappear as fast as I can set them out!

Easy spiced apple cake bakes a small one-bowl batter with cinnamon, ginger, and fresh sliced apples in a pie tin. Quick fall snack cake with light and dark brown sugars.

Crisp rolled molasses cookies with a full tablespoon each of cinnamon and ginger, dark molasses, lemon extract, and a splash of vinegar for tang. Thin and snappy.

Ginger Puffs are soft drop cookies made with cooked oatmeal, molasses, brown sugar, ginger, allspice, and cinnamon. One bowl, 30 minutes, yields 4 dozen warm-spiced cookies.

Gingerbread baked in jars makes individual spiced molasses loaves perfect for gifting. The jars seal as they cool, keeping the gingerbread fresh for weeks. A clever holiday project.

Hot fig pudding with molasses, buttermilk, dried figs, and ginger baked in a tube pan, served with a warm sherry-butter sauce with nutmeg and lemon. A British-style steamed pudding baked in the oven.

St. Nicholas cookies are buttery, spiced Dutch-style holiday cookies loaded with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger, and chopped almonds. Slice-and-bake or press into carved wooden molds.

Zucchini bread with a bright citrus twist from lemon zest and orange extract, spiced with cinnamon and ginger. Moist, tender, and loaded with grated zucchini.