Gingerbread just screams Christmas. Gingerbread men, Gingerbread houses and now meet the not so distant cousin, Gingerbread cookie bars. It’s an easy and soft version with perfect gingerbread flavor that is strong and pleasant, but not too intense. The real star is the cream cheese frosting, but when is cream cheese frosting not the star?
These gingerbread cookie bars with cream cheese frosting are so delicious and so addicting. They always get rave reviews and people coming back for “just one more tiny bite.” I highly suggest adding these to your list of easy dessert recipes for Christmas. Because let’s face it – the holidays need something easy!
Even better? You probably have a lot of the ingredients in your house already!
Before I made my own gingerbread cookie bars, I always kind of thought that gingerbread might be complicated to make. There are so many flavors and spices! There’s hard gingerbread for gingerbread houses and soft gingerbread cookie recipes for gingerbread men.
And if you want to know how to make gingerbread cookies without a cookie cutter? Well, there’s a recipe for that, too! The good news is, it’s this one! My gingerbread cookie bars are the perfect solution for gingerbread lovers who don’t want to mess around with rolling out dough, cutting out shapes and then trying to frost them to perfection.
These gingerbread cookie bars with cream cheese frosting are a simple gingerbread cookie recipe even the most time-starved holiday human can get on board with!
If you want to make these, you’ll want to grab a few key ingredients:
For the cream cheese frosting you’ll need:
What exactly are gingerbread spices? While the proportions will vary a bit from recipe to recipe, the actual spices in gingerbread cookies tend to remain the same:
The rich flavor of molasses and brown sugar bring these spices together in my gingerbread cookie bars with cream cheese frosting.
This is one of my favorite easy dessert recipes for Christmas, but there are a lot of other great options out there for recipes that won’t keep you in the kitchen all Christmas Eve.
Are you hosting a party this holiday season? Add this easy gingerbread recipe to a dessert board with other holiday favorites and wait for all the compliments to rain down upon you!
Some of my favorite easy holiday dessert recipes include:
Serve your Christmas dessert board with some Gingerbread Egg Nog and you’re in for a wonderful night!
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All the Gingerbread cookie feels and tastes in an easy bar form and, of course, topped with the best cream cheese frosting ever! Perfect holiday treat!
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 1/4 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) Hiland butter, room temperature
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup molasses
Cream Cheese Frosting
8 ounces Hiland cream cheese, room temperature
1/2 cup (1 stick) Hiland butter, room temperature
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
2 cups powdered sugar
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2 Responses
Mine gingerbread turned out really dry—any ideas of what I did wrong?
So weird, bummer! It is a thick dough but mines never been dry before. Maybe too much flour?