What Is Gingerbreading?

What Is Gingerbreading? Gingerbread refers to a broad category of baked goods, typically flavored with ginger, cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar or molasses. Gingerbread foods vary, ranging from a soft, moist loaf cake to something close to a ginger snap. What gingerbread means? 1 : a cake whose ingredients include molasses