Add a festive twist to your coffees, cocktails, pancakes, and so much more with this delicious Gingerbread Syrup recipe. This easy recipe uses rich molasses, brown sugar, and spices to add holiday cheer to all your drinks and goodies.
Like most people, when the holidays roll around, I immediately start dreaming of all the delicious goodies that come with it. Gingerbread Lattes and Gingerbread Cookies are at the top of my holiday must-have list every year and there isn’t much that can deter me from indulging in these treats every winter.
I shared my recipe for homemade gingerbread syrup years ago in my Starbucks copycat Gingerbread Latte Recipe but decided to share it separately here because there are so many ways to use this delicious syrup in your kitchen! It felt wrong to only highlight its use in only one (albeit delicious and always on repeat in our household) latte recipe.
This gingerbread simple syrup recipe is wonderful in a wide variety of drinks, both hot and cold. Add some syrup to your favorite teas, to a steaming cup of hot chocolate, or in your cocktail and mocktail recipes and you have an instantly festive drink to get you in the holiday spirit.
It’s uses go beyond drinks too. Pour some syrup on your pancakes, waffles, or french toast for a delicious gingerbread flavor or drizzle it over ice cream.
Why we love this recipe
- It’s delicious! This recipe is full of gingerbread flavor!
- Making flavored simple syrup is so easy to do. Add the ingredients into a saucepan and let them simmer. Before you know it, you have a delicious syrup you can put to good use.
- This syrup is so versatile. You can use it to add sweetness and gingerbread flavor to coffees, teas, hot chocolates, cocktails, pancakes and so much more.
- Syrups make a great homemade gift for the holidays.
Ingredients for Gingerbread Syrup
- Brown sugar: Used in equal parts with water to create the simple syrup. You can use light brown sugar or dark brown sugar. Dark brown sugar is made with more molasses and so will give you a deeper flavor but either can be used.
- Molasses: Adds to the gingerbread flavoring of this syrup.
- Spices: Ground ginger, ground cinnamon, and ground nutmeg.
- Vanilla extract: adds flavor.
**Note: Ingredient quantities and full instructions are in the recipe card at the end of this post.**
How to make Gingerbread Syrup
- Simmer ingredients. In a small saucepan over medium heat, add all of the syrup ingredients except the vanilla extract. Simmer together for 5-7 minutes, whisking often.
- Whisk in vanilla extract. Remove from heat and whisk in the vanilla. Let it cool.
- Cool and store. Once cooled, run it through a sieve and transfer to a mason jar or other container. Store in the fridge.
Storing gingerbread syrup
Once it is cooled, place the gingerbread syrup in a jar with a secure lid or a similar airtight container and store it in the fridge. It can keep for a couple of weeks if stored properly.
Uses for Gingerbread Syrup
This flavored simple syrup can be used in a wide variety of ways, as mentioned above. Our favorites include:
- Coffee. Adding this flavored syrup to your regular brewed coffee in place of sugar or making a delicious Gingerbread Latte Recipe is our favorite way to use this syrup.
- Other hot drinks like teas and hot chocolates. While you could add it to a powdered hot chocolate mix, I prefer making Homemade Hot Chocolate because I can omit the sugar altogether and replace it with as much gingerbread simple syrup as I desire to make a more flavorful drink without it getting overly sweet.
- Cocktails or mocktails. Simple syrups are often used in cocktail recipes and there are no rules against using a flavored simple syrup in place of an ordinary syrup. Have fun adding a gingerbread twist to all your favorite drinks.
- Drizzled over pancakes, waffles, or french toast. This is such a fun way to add a holiday twist to your brunch or breakfast table.
- Spooned over ice cream. Such a fun way to add some gingerbread flavor to your ice cream treat.
- Brushed onto cakes. Add a little gingerbread flavor to your cakes and cupcakes.
I hope you enjoy this gingerbread simple syrup as much as we do. If you give it a try, I’d love to hear your favorite ways to use it!
Happy Holidays!
P.S. Be sure to check out my other favorite simple syrup recipes including Peppermint Syrup and Cinnamon Simple Syrup. It’s always great to have these on hand when entertaining over the holidays or to gift to loved ones.
Looking for more holiday recipes? Be sure to check out:
Gingerbread Cookies
Gingerbread Biscotti
Peppermint Mocha Recipe
Cinnamon Dolce Latte Recipe
Holiday Cocktail with Cranberry
Pomegranate Rosemary Gin Fizz Cocktail
Pomegranate Margarita
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Gingerbread Syrup Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 6 tablespoons molasses
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a small saucepan over medium heat, add all of the syrup ingredients except the vanilla extract. Simmer together for 5-7 minutes, whisking often. Remove from heat and whisk in the vanilla. Let it cool.
- Once cooled, run it through a sieve and transfer to a mason jar or other container. Store in the fridge.
Note: Metric ingredient measurements are provided as a courtesy using a third-party calculator and are rounded to the nearest unit. The recipes provided on this site have not been tested with metric measurements and their accuracy cannot be verified.
Nutrition
The nutritional information provided is based on third-party calculations and is an estimate only. Accurate nutritional facts will vary based on the particular brands used, portion sizes, measurement accuracy and more.
