Our favourite gingerbread cookie recipes to make all holiday season long

Sparkling Double Ginger Cookies

Crystallized ginger gives these scrumptious cookies that holiday sparkle. 

Christmas Light Gingerbread Cookies

Brighten up your holiday season with these colourful Christmas light cookies, complete with royal icing and candy-coated chocolate candies. 

Classic Gingerbread Cookies

These classic holiday treats can be made way in advance! Check out our tip in the recipe for instructions.

Gingerbread Cutout Cookies

Royal icing makes these cutout cookies almost too pretty to eat.

Ginger Molasses Crinkle Cookies

This heavenly combination of crispy and chewy cookies will be your go-to recipe this holiday season.

Buttery Gingerbread Men

Designed to resemble crafty felt gingerbread men, the recipe yields half white and half brown cookies. Decorate with candies to resemble buttons, eyes and hearts as desired.

Snowy Ginger Owls

These sparkly ginger owls are an adorable take on gingerbread men. We've chosen to decorate with snowy colours, but there's enough icing for you to play around with different shades.

Early Grey & Ginger Sandwich Cookies

You can either use fancy molasses or cooking molasses in this recipe. The difference? Fancy molasses is light in colour and has a mild sweet taste. Cooking molasses is more robust and intense but can still be used interchangeably in recipes that call for fancy.