Gingerbread Cookie Time

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Let’s get this party started!

If there’s one thing that warms everyone’s heart, it’s a gingerbread cookie fresh from the oven. The smells, the flavor, the frosting, the decorations – gingerbread cookies are the best! We have found some wonderful recipes and decorations to bring a bit of gingerbread into your home. Scroll down ⬇ to the bottom for our FREE customizeable “Baked with Love” gift tags for your baked goods – featuring our favorite gingerbread men.

Gingerbread Baking: The Basics

Next you’ll need some recipes! To find the best, we enlisted the help of these adorable gingerbread man and lady bakers! They certainly know a thing or two about gingerbread cookies – and they would be a fun decoration for your kitchen too!

The most wonderful gingerbread cookie recipes 🙂

First up is my mom’s favorite gingerbread cookie recipe straight from her hand me down cookbook complete with dog eared pages and a burn mark on the back cover. Every year we would mix up the dough (so fun adding the molasses) let it chill and then the fun began. While mom admitted she was not a fan of gingerbread, she loved making the cookies for the family. And we all loved the smell of them baking and the wonderful gingerbread taste! I’ll give it five stars for sure!

Soft gingerbread cookies

Next is a recipe for soft gingerbread. From the baker “A HUGE influence on how your cookies turn out is having the right amount of flour. Too much and the cookies will turn out dry. Too little and they’ll spread too much. Even a difference of a couple tablespoons can make a big difference” She has several other helpful hints too – you can find her hints and recipe here.

Cream cheese icing please

We love these soft round ginger cookies with cream cheese icing and sweet gingerbread men sprinkles. The baker tells us each bite is richly flavored and “slathered in cream cheese icing” YUM! To start baking these goodies, check out her recipe here.

Cute gingerbread decoration ideas. Once you get your icing tinted, you can get creative! These adorable gingerbread are decorated with knit caps, ear muffs, a pink and white scarf and buttons.

Christmas Cookbooks!

The first book (lower left) simply called “Gingerbread” is authored by Jennifer Lindner McGlinn, a professional pastry chef and dedicated homecook. Another favorite is Holiday Cookies: Showstopping Recipes to Sweeten the Season, filled with favorites like Giant Molasses Spice Cookies and Dark Chocolate–Hazelnut Fudge. Finally, you’ll love the Taste of Home Christmas Cookies Mini Binder with a guide to creating impressive cookie platters and tips for organizing a no-fuss cookie exchange. 

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Gingerbread Decorations

You can really dress up your home – and your cookie party – with these fun gingerbread theme ideas. Below is an old fashioned “Gingerbread Baked Daily Sign” which would add that Christmas touch to your kitchen. Next is the cutest gingerbread cookie jar we’ve ever seen. Imagine the kiddos checking the jar to find a fresh gingerbread or sugar cookie stacked inside.

Below left is an adorable snowman ornament proudly displaying her gingerbread house. That smile shows how happy she is with her creation. And there’s a wonderful “grandma’s kitchen scent” gingerbread candle to keep the aroma going long after the baking has ended..

Gingerbread tray – baked fresh daily

This Gingerbread “Baked Fresh Daily” tray is so sweet with the old fashioned typography and soft tan background. This would surely be a hit for a Christmas theme bridal shower.

Oven mitts and aprons – with gingerbread flair

Cookie mitts for the kids – with cute gingerbread, candy canes and Christmas trees. Your kiddos will love having these special mitts to help with Christmas cookies this year.

With all of the flour, sugar, sprinkles and more, you and your helpers will need some high quality aprons. My favorite for the kiddos is this “cookie tester” apron. Grandma will love this super cute gingerbread pattern. Mom and dad will appreciate the “Christmas Baking Team” aprons.

And of course, there’s baking with grandma! You can even personalize with your grandson or granddaughter’s name.

Gingerbread flavored invitations

If you’re having a cookie party this year, we found some incredible ginger-flavored invitations 🙂 Even though the party might be smaller this year, it’s still fun to get together to bake a little love this season.

Below is my “OH SNAP!” design featuring a pattern of gingerbread, candy canes, Christmas trees and snowflakes with a sprinkling of blue polka dots. The old fashioned rolling pin holds the date and time. And it’s so easy to customize! We have this available as an instant download so you can download and print OR email to your guests.

Next is a nice old fashioned “Holiday Cookie Exchange” invitation featuring pointsettias, candy canes and gingerbread houses.

Gingerbread front and center

Below is a cute Gingerbread cookie party invitation featuring gingerbread men, gingerbread houses and cute fonts. What’s more, its easy to customize too!

This “oh so cute” gingerbread invitation features a giant gingerbread with frosting and sprinkles. You can order this gingerbread cookie decorating party invitation from etsy.

Packaging the baked goods!

If you’re giving baked good treats to friends and family, you can pick up some cute holiday decorated cookie boxes! If you are swapping cookies at your party, these boxes are the best. With a festive pattern and a cute snowman on the top, you can pile in lots of different cookies. Here’s one satisfied customer “We loved these for our work cookie giveaway! They were perfect and great quality!”

These old fashioned stickers would be perfect to add to your treat bags or baked goods.

You can also use these cute stickers to decorate your cookie packets or baked goods.

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Cookies for Santa!

Of course the little ones will want to leave a few cookies for Santa. This year, you can even customize the plate so Santa will know who did the baking.

Santa might also enjoy a warm cup of cocoa. The gingerbread design makes for a cozy winter mug.

Since you may be calling Santa this year – instead of sitting on his lap – your kiddo will get a kick out of the gingerbread phone cover.