gingerbread

/ˌdʒɪndʒərˈbrɛd/

/ˈdʒɪndʒəbrɛd/

Other forms: gingerbreads

Gingerbread is a rich, spicy cake or cookie. Some people mark the Christmas season by making gingerbread houses covered in icing and candy.

The key ingredient in this delicious treat is the spice called ginger. The original meaning of the word gingerbread was "preserved ginger," and then it came to mean "ginger candy made with honey and spices." It was some time in the 15th century that what we now know as gingerbread was first invented: a rich, flavorful cookie or cake full of ginger and other spices and sweetened with molasses.

Definitions of gingerbread

1. noun

   cake flavored with ginger
   type of:

   cake

   baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat