Gingerbread Spice Mix. It is super quick and easy to mix up your own Homemade Gingerbread Spice Mix. With just cinnamon, ginger, clove and nutmeg you can make a mini batch for personal baking or a large batch to give as gifts. I can get a little obsessed with Gingerbread during the holiday season. Gingerbread and eggnog are my favorite. This is a versatile mix of spices that can be added to lots of other things -- yellow cake mix, pancake or waffle batter, ground coffee before brewing, scones, muffins, cookies, whatever you want to have a gingerbread flavor.
Stir this perfect seasonal spice mix -- fragrant with ginger and cinnamon -- into pancakes, coffee cake, and all your other favorite holiday baked treats.
This gingerbread spice mix is the perfect addition to any holiday baking that may be on your radar, but it's also an awesome topping to your holiday beverages!
Just sprinkle on some eggnog, coffee, or hot chocolate!
You can cook Gingerbread Spice Mix using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Gingerbread Spice Mix
- It's 4 tbsp of ground cinnamon.
- It's 4 tbsp of ground ginger.
- You need 2 tbsp of ground nutmeg.
- It's 1 tbsp of ground cloves.
- It's 1 tbsp of ground allspice.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of ground cardamom (optional).
Gingerbread Latte Cake; Caramel Gingerbread Cake; Chocolate Dipped Gingerbread Cookies Just in time for those fast-approaching holidays, recipes for your very own homemade gingerbread spice mix and gingerbread syrup. For all kinds of gingerbread goodness! Gingerbread lattes, smoothie bowls, french toast, hot chocolates, cheesecakes, cakes, truffles, bars, brownies and of course cookies. All you have to do is mix all the ingredients together and you are ready to go.
Gingerbread Spice Mix instructions
- Measure out spices and combine in airtight container..
- Make sure well sealed and shake to mix!.
- Store in cool dry place, out of direct sunlight. I'm using a small mason jar with a label..
- You could also add ground coriander, ground cayenne, black pepper, ground anise or any combination to suit your own taste!.
- Cakes, (standard size) use 3-5 tsp..
- Cookies, (2-3 dozen) use 2-4 tsp..
- Pancakes or waffles, (8 servings) use 1-3 tsp..
- Can be used when making coffee, sprinkled on hot chocolate or even as a rub for chicken! Endless possibilites! And it would also make a great gift!.
- Sprinkled on Apple slices today and loved it! Also was good in herbal tea! :-).
This Christmas spice mix is great in baking. You can use it to make gingerbread cookies, pancakes, quick bread, muffins, churros or cupcakes. By the way, this gingerbread spice mix will make a great homemade Christmas present! Gingerbread spice mix is a pretty flexible combination. I looked up a variety of recipes and usually the ones called "German Lebkuchen Spice" were most appealing to me (probably because of the spice variety they use).