Soft and moist cake-like gingerbread bars with that classic gingerbread flavor and scent. Paleo, gluten-free, dairy-free, and really wonderful! Serve with a big scoop of Gingerbread Ice Cream for even more gingerbread goodness.

Who here identifies gingerbread with the holiday season? Go ahead, raise your hand. Let us count one, two, twenty, and everyone. Got it. I was once the same way.

For a long time, I thought gingerbread was only intended to be in cookie form, shaped like tiny guys with no phalanges or neck, coated with royal icing, and eaten solely at Christmas.

You draw small worry expressions on them, chew their legs and limbs, and make low screaming sounds until they can no longer feel pain and you bite off their heads.

Is it just me? If you haven’t guessed it yet, I have a dark sense of humor.

What is gingerbread made of?

Traditional gingerbread recipes call for a variety of spices such as ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and some people add cardamom and anise.

Alternatively, dark corn syrup. Sweeteners are often a blend of brown sugar, molasses, and honey.

Nevertheless, because Ive made this recipe more paleo-friendly, were going a bit off the old fashioned road by adding coconut sugar in place of the other sweets.

Gingerbread is different than gingerbread cookies

So nevertheless one day I found gingerbread. Gingerbread, not gingerbread cookies. I fully know it is completely backwards since it began as a delicious loaf cake and not anatomically wrong cookies.

Aside: I’ve also heard these called ginger molasses bars, which clears up any confusion.

I had no idea it could be a flawlessly fluffy cake with the same tastes, covered with any number of frostings cream cheese, brown butter, maple buttercream, and so on.

Just look at that moist crumb its everything I never knew I needed in a gingerbread bar.

Is molasses paleo-friendly?

I will confess, some of you may not think these are genuinely paleo due of the molasses, but as Ive stated before I feel that moderation is vital. Everything will be OK as long as you use genuine blackstrap molasses.

Molasses is the dark syrup left over after sugar cane crystals are removed during sugar cane manufacture. Molasses is the dark syrup left over after sugar cane crystals are removed during sugar cane production. Sugar cane is a natural plant, therefore it is theoretically Paleo-compliant, but I completely understand if you disagree.

Can I add a frosting to the top of gingerbread bars?

You absolutely could! However, to be honest, I haven’t found a paleo frosting that I enjoy yet since everything I’ve tried requires refrigeration or is too runny for my taste.

Here are a few of my favorite frostings that would go well with these bars:

• Cream cheese icing
• Cookie butter icing
• Whipped mascarpone cream icing
• White chocolate icing

Perhaps the best part about these gingerbread bars is that they don’t need any additional toppings. If you slightly underbake them, they will be so moist and tasty that you won’t miss the icing.

Ingredients for paleo gingerbread bars

• almond butter cup (aff link)
• a cup of coconut sugar
• 2tablespoonscoconut oil,solid
• 2 room temperature eggs
• cupmolasses
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• a cup of almond flour (aff link)
• 1tablespooncinnamon
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1teaspoonginger
• teaspoonnutmeg
• teaspooncloves
• teaspoonsalt

How to make gingerbread bars

Even though they are paleo, they are a rather simple gingerbread recipe, so don’t let that put you off!

1. Cream together almond butter (aff link), coconut sugar, and coconut oil in the bowl of a stand mixer equipped with the paddle attachment until creamy.
2. Mix in the eggs, molasses, and vanilla extract on medium speed until combined.
3. In a separate large basin, stir together almond flour (aff link), cinnamon, baking powder, ginger, nutmeg, clovers and salt.
4. Add dry ingredients to bowl of wet ingredients and whisk until well incorporated.
5. Bake for 20 minutes, or until the center is firm and a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out with only wet crumbs.

Boom! That’s all there is to it, my friends.