gingerbread cookies

Holiday baking staple

Gingerbread cookies are spiced cookies flavored with ginger, molasses, and warm spices like cinnamon and cloves.

They're traditionally baked during winter holidays, often cut into shapes—gingerbread men being the classic form—and decorated with icing.

We spent the afternoon decorating gingerbread cookies.

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Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G