As the cookie, gingerbread may be processed into the thinly, crisp cookie (typically known as a ginger snap) or the easy cookie similar to the German Lebkuchen. Gingerbread cookies come typically turn over shapes, particularly gingerbread men.

The variant dough is utilized to produce gingerbread houses à la a "witch's house" found by Hansel and Gretel. These, covered sustaining the kind of candies and icing, are the most common Christmas decoration.

the second variant utilizes a stewed dough that may be moulded like clay to form inedible figurine or even more decorations. The important form of popular art within Europe, major centers of gingerbread mould carving involved Lyon, Nürnberg, Pesth,Prague, Ulm, and Toruń. Ginger bread moulds typically displayed a "news," showing carven portraits of freshly kings, emperors, & queens, for instance. Material mould collections come held at a Ethnographic Museum inside Toruń, Poland and the Bread Museum in Ulm, Germany.

the cake form tends to exist as a heavy, treaclely (molasses-based) spice cake. A select few formula add mustard, pepper, raisins, nuts, and/or other spices/ingredients to the batter.

Originally, a term gingerbread (from either Latin zingiber via Old French gingebras) referred to preserved ginger, then to the confection processed using honey and spices.

Gingerbread is besides an architectural term for extremely adorned Victorian houses.