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The Ultimate Spice Dessert Guide

Here, you'll discover a range of treats that celebrate the warm and aromatic flavors of spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cardamom. No matter your palate, you'll find recipes here to add nuance and kick to your baking.

Ginger and spice cookies

  • Ginger cookies on a baking sheet resting on a brown parchment paper rectangle. A jar of molasses is nearby.
    Triple Ginger Molasses Cookies
  • Chocolate gingerbread cookies on brown parchment paper.
    Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies
  • Rectangular bar cookies cut into a star shape.
    German Cookies
  • Cookie butter squares on brown parchment paper.
    Biscoff Blondies

Spice cakes and cheesecakes

  • Streusel topped muffins in brown paper parchment liners in a muffin tin.
    Cinnamon Streusel Muffins
  • A slice of gingerbread cheesecake topped with whipped cream and caramel sauce on a white plate.
    Gingerbread Cheesecake
  • Two slices of filled gingerbread cake on a tan platter.
    Piernik (Polish Gingerbread Cake)
  • Brown bundt cake with white glaze on a marble platter with apple branches in foreground
    Applesauce Bundt Cake

Fruit desserts enhanced with spice

  • Two slices of Pink Apple Tart with Cream Cheese Filling on white plates with forks resting nearby; all on a grey background
    Bavarian Apple Tart
  • A slice of moist apple cake on a ceramic plate with three thin slices of fresh apple on top.
    Simple Apple Cake
  • A round coffee cake with several slices cut out of it on a marble platter on a warm tan surface. There is a fan of sliced plums on top of the cake. Nearby are several slices on small plates, a container of pink glaze, and a small bowl of green cardamom pods.
    Plum Coffee Cake
  • Close up of a mini cake on a white plate cut in half, revealing a moist crumb with bits of apples inside. The cake is covered in a drizzle of salted caramel sauce. There are other cakes on a platter in the background with a navy blue napkin.
    Apple Ginger Mini Cakes with Salted Caramel Sauce

More spice recipes

  • Pumpkin cookies with cream cheese centers on a white speckled ceramic platter. The cookies are dusted with cinnamon and coarse golden Turbinado sugar.
    Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies
  • Round butter cookies on brown parchment paper.
    Cookie Butter Cookies (Made With Biscoff Spread)
  • Sliced bars on a white plate with carrots and a jug of milk in the background
    Carrot Cake Nanaimo Bars

Hi! I'm Kathleen.

I'm the baker and food photographer behind The Floured Table. I develop well-tested, approachable dessert recipes that are designed to work in your kitchen.

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