While gingerbread houses often take center stage at this time of year, gingerbread cakes are making a name for themselves. And it’s no wonder, really. With the housing market skyrocketing, who can blame it for diversifying its real estate portfolio?
Think of gingerbread cakes as the cozy vacation cottages of baked goods. We can’t wait to give them five stars on Airbnb. The flavors marry well with other winter tastes, like chocolate, eggnog, and even Guinness. Too far? You’re no fun.
These gingerbread confections are sure to spice up your holiday season. Posh, Scary, and Sporty all agree.
25 Gingerbread Cakes
1. Gingerbread Bundt Cake
May your table be bundt-iful this holiday season with this classic Gingerbread Bundt Cake. We’re sure you’ll get a bundt-ch of compliments. Maybe even more if you cool it with the bundt puns.
2. Gingerbread Bundt Cake 2.0
Your guests will be thankful for a slice of this cake. We’ll take the slice with the most powdered sugar, please. No, not that one, the one next to it.
3. Vegan Gingerbread Cake
Gingerbread cake plus gingerbread cookies equals the most delicious way to celebrate Christmas. No offense to the ham, who we are also grateful for.
4. Vegan Gingerbread Loaf Cake
Single file formation please, one at a time. We know this Starbucks copycat loaf cake will be a hot commodity, but let’s not forget our manners. Ugh, were they in your lost checked bag, too?
5. Gingerbread Latte Cake
This Gingerbread Latte Cake is coming at you hot from the French presses. Literally, there’s actual coffee in it. But, like, don’t stop pouring that cup for us.
6. Gingerbread Cake
This gingerbread cake comes with cream cheese frosting, meaning it’s sugar and spice and everything nice. Seriously, we’ve been invited over to your house twice now and always leave with leftovers. Your parents raised you well.
7. Gingerbread Trifle
It’s time to layer up with this Gingerbread Trifle. Vanilla, caramel, and a splash of brandy make for happy campers. Good thing, because we forgot to bring the sleeping bags.
8. Gingerbread Latte Cake 2.0
Another Gingerbread Latte Cake? Where have these been all our lives? Don’t say in that neglected hall closet that no one touches.
9. Guinness Gingerbread Cake
You’ll want to bid a top o’ the morning to this Guinness Gingerbread Cake. Eating this beer-soaked cake in the morning is quite a move, but we respect it.
10. Gingerbread Layer Cake
A dessert box with cookies all tied up with string. These are a few of our favorite things. Only if we can have it and eat it, though. What’s the point in having cake if you can’t eat it, too?
11. Gingerbread Banana Cake
There are a few things we go bananas for, and anything baked with bananas are a lot of those things. Add gingerbread to the mix, and our heart is yours. We never claimed to be hard to get.
12. Pear Gingerbread Upside-Down Cake
In Stranger Things, is an upside-down cake actually a right-side-up cake? And will Eddie be returning for season five? Asking the important questions over here.
13. Gingerbread Spice Cake With Eggnog Frosting
Finally, eggnog has something to do other than hangout in the punch bowl. It’s off the bench and ready to play. Eggnog clearly plays well with frosting, because this combination is a touchdown. We’ve learned so much thanks to Taylor.
14. Gluten-Free Gingerbread Loaf
This Gluten-Free Gingerbread Loaf adds spicy goodness and subtracts gastrointestinal side effects. You’re going to want to multiply this recipe, because it divides up fast. If there’s not enough to go around, that equals some serious side eye.
15. Moist Gingerbread Snack Cake
The number one rule of cakes is to bake until moist and fluffy, not dry and crumbly. Actually, the number one rule of cakes is to preheat the oven, but this one is pretty high on the list.
16. Gingerbread Cake Roll with Eggnog Whipped Cream
Cinnamon rolls may have started the trend, but gingerbread is following close behind. We love a dessert with hidden swirls of frosting. Or non-hidden swirls. Either works.
17. Gingerbread House Layer Cake
We love a cake that pays homage to its architectural roots. The candy cane columns are divine and the roof piping is simply exquisite. We must find the name of their decorator. (It’s us.)
18. Gingerbread Layer Cake
Your guests with be on the edges of their sweets to try this one. Maybe not the most sanitary thing in the world, but you showered today, right?
19. Gingerbread Bundt Cake with Vanilla Glaze
In the Rock, Paper, Scissors game of flavors, it’s a tough call when classics like chocolate and vanilla face off. But in this case, vanilla took the cake.
20. Gingerbread Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
Are you wondering what makes this cake better than all the rest? It’s simply the zest. Even the cream cheese would agree. Yeah, we know he usually has a big head.
21. Old-Fashioned Gingerbread Cake
Like wine, cheese, and designer handbags, some things get better with age. Not cake, though. Cake is best when it’s fresh. Trust us.
22. Super Moist Gingerbread Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Move over, carrot cake and red velvet cupcakes. Cream cheese frosting has found a new partner to square dance with. It’s nothing personal. It’s just gingerbread’s time to shine.
23. Gingerbread Cake with Caramel Icing
Caramel’s sweetness sticks with you long after the first bite. It’s worth every extra minute you have to spend brushing your teeth. According to us, not your dentist.
24. Sourdough Gingerbread Cake
You won’t even need your sourdough starter for this one. Oh, you already took it out of the refrigerator? Well, this is awkward.
25. Gingerbread
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