Gingerbread Biscuits & Baking Mixes

Discover soft gingerbread biscuits, white-iced Pfeffernüsse and Dr Oetker baking essentials for homemade treats. Choose something ready to share with tea or coffee, or fill the kitchen with the aroma of freshly baked gingerbread.

Soft Lebkuchen Gingerbread Biscuits

Our Lebkuchen gingerbread biscuits combine honey sweetness and warming spices with a soft, gently chewy texture. Made in Hungary, where this kind of biscuit is known as mézes puszedli, they are an easy treat to put out when friends and family visit.

Enjoy them with a pot of tea, freshly brewed coffee or a warming cup of mulled wine. For a simple dessert, serve a biscuit beside stewed apples and custard or softly poached pears.

White-Iced Pfeffernusse Biscuits

For a different finish, try our Pfeffernusse biscuits. These small gingerbread bites have a smooth white sugar glaze that gives a delicate crunch before yielding to a soft centre. Honey and aromatic spices bring warmth beneath the sweet icing.

This Hungarian version is known as habos puszedli. Arrange them beside the lightly glazed Lebkuchen for a choice of textures, or add a pack to a Christmas food hamper.

Gingerbread Baking Mix for Homemade Biscuits

Our Dr Oetker Gingerbread Cookie Baking Mix 450g provides a prepared flour-based mix for rolling, cutting and baking your own biscuits. It already contains warming spices and honey powder, and the pack includes decorating sugar for finishing your homemade treats.

Add butter or margarine, milk and egg yolks according to the pack instructions, then roll out the dough and cut into stars, hearts or other festive shapes. The pack makes approximately 50 biscuits, depending on the size of your cutters. Let them cool before decorating, then share with visitors or package them as small homemade gifts.

Gingerbread Spice Blend for Your Own Recipes

If you prefer to make the dough from scratch, our Dr Oetker Gingerbread Spice Mix 16g combines cinnamon, cloves, ginger and orange peel. Use it with your own flour and other ingredients to give biscuits and honey cakes a rounded, fragrant spice flavour.

It is a seasoning blend rather than a flour-based baking mix, so follow your chosen recipe for the quantities of flour, sweetener and other ingredients. For honey-based doughs, explore our honey collection. A little spice mix also brings a festive note to pancakes, porridge, hot chocolate or stewed apples.

Discover more baking and dessert essentials in our Dr Oetker collection.

Build a Christmas Biscuit Plate

Combine soft gingerbread and white-iced Pfeffernüsse with our crumbly Vanillekipferl vanilla crescent biscuits for a mix of spice, icing and mellow walnut flavour. A few of each style make a welcoming plate to share over tea or coffee.

For help choosing between the different styles, read our guide to German Christmas biscuits. Our guide to Lebkuchen explores the wider gingerbread family and its different recipes and finishes.

Whether you are sharing ready-made biscuits or baking your own Hungarian mézeskalács, discover more festive food and gift ideas in our Christmas collection.