Search results 1-10 of 21 for "gingerbread"

gingerbread man

/JIN-juh bred man/
[English] plural gingerbread men

Ginger bread cut into the shapes of men and baked. It is often eaten at Christmas.

boichet

/BWAH-sheh/
[French]

A spiced honey cake or gingerbread.

arbufas

/ahr-BOO-fahs/
[Italian]

A gingerbread made in Sardinia with honey, almonds, cinnamon and raisins.

broonie

A type of gingerbread biscuit (US: cookie) made with oatmeal in the Orkney Islands.

pain d'epices

[French]

"Spice bread." A spiced honey cake or gingerbread from Dijon.

abufaus

/ah-boo-fah-oos/
[Italian]

A type of spicy gingerbread from Sardinia, often containing pine nuts, honey and currants.

couque

[French]

A small sweet raisin brioche or gingerbread from Flanders.

Tirggel

[Swiss_German]

A gingerbread biscuit (US: cookie), well spiced, made around Christmas. They are baked in carved wooden moulds, transferring onto them biblical stories.

alajú

/ah-lah-HOO/
[Spanish]

A flat, rich mediaeval cake or gingerbread, dense and very dark, made with honey, spices and whole almonds. It is similar to Italian panforte.

pan pepato

/pahn peh-PAH-toh/
[Italian]

"Spiced bread." Sometimes gingerbread, but mainly a sort of nougat-like confection with crystallised fruits, almonds and raisins, found in the Marche.