17 gingerbread recipes

Gingerbread Cake recipe

Gingerbread Muffins recipe

Christmas is never complete without a visit from the aromatic, sweet-tasting gingerbread kids.

Have some fun when it comes to baking with these scrumptious cookies your kids will love!

For making gingerbread houses

Parkin is a variety of gingerbread, good warming stuff to eat out of doors in cold weather. When I was a child, it was always a firm favourite for the firework party on Bonfire Night each year. This is adapted from my mother's recipe.