Start with this easy gingerbread cookie recipe and then try adapting it to make gingerbread men and even a gingerbread house.

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These creative gingerbread houses will give you all the inspiration you need to create your best build yet!

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Forget the solitary gingerbread house – why not create an entire village? Go wild and dream up the most extravagant festive table setting! With three free templates to download, our step-by-step guide will take you through how to make this Christmas showstopper. Project and instructions by Lucy Bruns Discover more festive baking projects here >

Gingerbread Biscotti - a fun take on a traditional cookie that everyone will love. The slight spice of the cookie goes well with a cup of coffee or tea.

Bakery style gingerbread muffins are delicious, full of molasses, and spices. A gorgeous muffin top and tastes just like gingerbread.

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There are so many fun activities you can do to go along with “The Gingerbread Man” story! Here are some of my favorite free gingerbread themed printables: emergent reader, patterns, graphing, color by code, and more! Hop on over to my blog to download them! You Might Also Like:Gingerbread Man PrintablesPersonification Lesson: Can ... Read More about Free Gingerbread Activities

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This is just the kind of gingerbread you crave when dinnertime has suddenly become pitch-black and cold, as it now has, and you feel like it’s midnight all the time and like you’re up in Scotland drinking whiskey from the bottle and waiting for spring. It’s big, soft, and comforting, like the down comforter of the cake world, and it fills your house with the spicy, delicious smell of holiday baking, even on a regular old school night. Plus, it will take you no more than 10 minutes to get it into the oven, promise. Or, as we say to the kids when we are quite sure about something but don’t want to get into it later, if there is, say, a surprise hurricane or earthquake, I almost promise. The recipe is hand-written in my recipe binder, and when I was trying to figure out how properly to credit it, I naturally consulted my mother. “Is this your gingerbread?” I asked, and she said, “Oh, is it this?” and pulled out a recipe card titled “Mummy’s Gingerbread” that calls for, among other things, treacle, and the mystifying measurements ½ egg and also 1 gill milk. “I don’t think it’s that,” I said, “seeing as how my gill has been, er, missing since the middle of the nineteenth century.” Hmm. “Is it this?” And strangely, there it was—an ancient clipping from the Times, called “Edna’s Blueberry Gingerbread.” I have never in my life added blueberries (I didn’t even write that part when I copied the recipe), but I suppose you could. But then it would go from a big, comforting cake to a more challenging cake studded with hot, puckery berries, which is not what I’m going for at all. Still, if you want to try adding “1 cup blueberries, lightly floured,” be my guest. I was going to make a note here about how this is a great way to get more iron into your diet, what with the legendary iron-containing properties of molasses, but when I looked at my molasses bottle, I noticed that, to achieve your daily requirement, you’d need to swallow 25 tablespoons of it. If you’re anemic, try eating the whole pan of gingerbread all by yourself, and let me know if you feel a burst of energy afterwards (I’m being ironic. Ha ha.). But I will tell you that Ben and I were talking over dinner about how your body actually needs small quantities of various metals, which surprised and delighted him. “Wow,” he said. “If I died and you melted me down, would there be enough copper in me to make even, like, a tiny, tiny dollhouse spoon?” Kill me. Soft and Sticky Gingerbread I like to grate the nutmeg fresh—not because I’m fancy or because I think it makes such a big difference flavorwise, but because it’s such a pleasant thing to do, and it’s a little job I can give the kids. If you’ve never tried this, do: it involves buying whole nutmegs and a tiny grater, and it’s a small and worthwhile investment. ½ cup sugar ½ cup room-temperature butter 2 eggs 1 cup molasses 2 cups flour (I used half spelt) ½ teaspoon salt (I use one scant teaspoon of Kosher salt) ¼ teaspoon cloves ½ teaspoon cinnamon ¼ teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon ginger 1 cup boiling water 2 teaspoons baking soda Heat the oven to 350, and butter and flour a lasagna-sized (10 by 14 inch) baking pan. Now, in the bowl of an electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugar until it’s light and fluffy, then add the eggs one at a time, followed by the molasses. Take a moment to stop the mixer and scrape the bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula to make sure there’s no butter hiding out down there. Meanwhile, sift together the flour, spices, and salt (and by “sift together” I mean, of course, whisk together, because I’m lazy like that), then mix them into the batter until they just disappear. Now measure the boiling water (I do this right in the dirty molasses cup), add the baking soda to it, call your kids over to see the amazingly foaming mixture, explain the science of it (each crystal of baking soda actually contains a tiny, burping angel), and beat it gently into the batter, which will now seem incredibly runny, which is fine. Pour it into your prepared pan and bake for about 30 minutes, until the cake is starting to pull away from the sides of the pan and a toothpick comes out clean or with crumbs on it, rather than ooky batter still. Serve with whipped cream, if you have company, or plain. Yum.

One of my favorite units to teach in December is the Gingerbread Man. I love that there are so many version of this story and so many great activities to do, including story sequencing and comparing different versions of the story. I recently discovered the story Gingerbread Girl and felt it was a great story for compare and contrast. I always begin with the original version of the story and have so much fun with this story. The students have so much fun independently reading their own little emergent readers. We create these sequencing graphic organizers to tell the beginning, middle and ending of the story. You can either have students cut and paste the pictures in the correct order or they can be more open ended and students can draw events that happened in the beginning, middle and end of the story (and if you do this, you can use it for any version of the story!) Or students can complete story sequencing based on several different version of the story. I can included pictures for the version by the version by Jim Aylesworth, Catherine McCafferty, Gail Yerrill, and Eric Kimmel. I also love having student sort pictures from the story and those that do not belong. This gets students thinking more about the story and story elements. We have a blast using our phonics skills to label the Gingerbread man and a phonics activity where we are listening for the middle sounds in a word. And a writing activity where we write our own name and draw a picture of ourselves chasing after the Gingerbread man. I love saving this sheet for all of my students and creating a class book out of it. Students love re-reading it in our classroom library. Students can also complete a gingerbread man directed drawing which is always a fun activity and write about it. We also love doing some Gingerbread man themed math. Included is a simpler version with numbers to 10 as well as additional practice with teen numbers. Finally, I tie in other versions of the story. One of my favorites is The Gingerbread Girl. We compared The Gingerbread Man and The Gingerbread Girl using a Venn diagram. There are two version included (which are included as a freebie at the end of this post). You can use the selected cut and paste pictures or students can draw or write their own pictures or words to compare and contrast the two stories. (note- the version of The Gingerbread Man that includes a snake and wolf can be found here The Gingerbread Man- retold by Catherine McCafferty affiliate link) Included is also a more open ended version where students can write or draw their own pictures You can find the Gingerbread Man story sequencing and other Gingerbread Man activities in my Gingerbread Man Sub Packet. This includes all of the activities above and more that can be used as a full day worth of activities including writing, math, sequencing, an emergent reader. These activities can also be used as a story extension. And the free Gingerbread Man and Gingerbread Girl Venn Diagram here: I hope that you and your students enjoy these activities!

Looking for some cute Christmas décor? Try one of these adorable crochet gingerbread man patterns. There are several to choose from.

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Healthy Flourless Gingerbread Muffins- naturally sweetened and packed full of fiber, these fluffy muffins are perfectly moist. No one would ever guess they are gluten-free! Muffins lovers, rejoice! It’s been a long time since I’ve shared a flourless muffin recipe and it’s high time for an encore. If you’ve made them before then you know […]

Gingerbread scones with maple glaze are a delicious holiday breakfast treat. They are spiced with ginger and sweetened with molasses.

Step by step crochet tutorials with Amigurumi gingerbread ideas paid and free patterns... Lots of amigurumi free and paid crochet patterns are waiting for you.

Remember the Christmas houses from last year? Well, the second template was a bit off (the roof was a tiny bit too small), so I fixed it. And I made another extra tall house to share too, for this year's amusement. Go here for all the directions. I'm thinking I want to make itty bitty houses this year. I'll take pictures if I do. If you make some, I hope you'll take pictures too.

Check out these 10 playful and engaging activities that turn a simple gingerbread man coloring page into a launchpad for creativity and learning for your kiddo.

Here is a slightly bigger, updated version to my Crochet Gingerbread Man Cookie Pattern! I figured if I made this guy a little sturdier, he could be used for more decor... like on a wreath, strung as garland, tree ornament, dinner table place holders, etc. Plus, you can add more embellishments (like a bow) to

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Gingerbread Name Craft For Kids | Simple Christmas activity i. Use a free printable PDF template to learn how to make. Great for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and elementary.

These are the BEST vegan gingerbread cookies you will get your hands on. They are easy to make, don't require any funky ingredients and are SO DANG GOOD!

A recipe for Welsh Gingerbread with a sweet glaze and candied ginger topping. Inspired by the gingerbread sold at old Welsh Fairs, it's a delicious treat.