Gingerbread Spice Blend: Warm Spices for Your Favorite Holiday Dishes
Gingerbread spice is simply a mix of warm fall or winter spices. The most basic or main spices in gingerbread spice are cinnamon and ginger in equal quantities. That’s it! You can add other common warm spices to spruce it up and fit your preferred tastes. A gingerbread spice might include other spices like cloves, allspice, anise, coriander, cardamon, or even black pepper. Check out the recipe below and adjust it to fit your preferred flavor profile.
Servings: 4 tablespoons
Ingredients
- 16 g (2 tbsp) ground cinnamon
- 11 g (2 tbsp) ground ginger
- 2 g (1 tsp) ground cardamom
- 2 g (1 tsp) ground coriander
- 2 g (1 tsp) ground cloves
- 2 g (1 tsp) ground allspice
- 1 g (½ tsp) ground nutmeg
Instructions
- In a small bowl combine all ingredients. Stir until combined using a small whisk or the back of a spoon to break up any small masses of spices. You can also use a small sifter or mesh sieve.
- Scoop or use a small funnel to transfer the spices from the small bowl to a spice jar or container that has a tight lid. This recipe makes a little over a ¼ cup (4+ tbsp).
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Notes
Storing:
Store spices in a sealed container for up to a year or based on the shortest expiration date of the oldest individual spice. Consider shaking or stirring the spice prior to using as some contents may settle. If you keep mace on hand, you can also add 1 g (½ tsp).
Usages:
Add this gingerbread spice as you would a commercial version in a 1:1 ratio in your favorite recipes that call for gingerbread spice, apple pie, or pumpkin pie spice. Of course, you can use it in gingerbread and gingerbread cookies. Sprinkle it over your breakfast oatmeal, toast, eggnog, coffee, apple cider, mulled wine, or hot chocolate. Add it to your favorite oatmeal raisin cookies in place of cinnamon, spiced nuts, or seeds. Why not add it to squash soups or roasted fall squash like acorn, pumpkin, or delicata? Add a little gingerbread spice to pancakes, waffles, muffins, or cinnamon rolls by mixing a couple of teaspoons in with your cinnamon. Try it on ice cream or in cake frostings.
Substitutions & Variations:
This recipe is based on my preferred spice flavors; however, you can adjust or leave out any spices that you don’t like or don’t have. In fact, you can add or subtract ½ tsp of any one spice to test a variation you may prefer. If you have kids with sensitive taste buds, you may only want to include cinnamon and ginger. Really you only need 2-3 of the above ingredients to make a gingerbread spice. As long as you have cinnamon and ginger, you can add or subtract any of the other spices.