Making a batch of gingerbread cookies is an essential for the holiday season: not only are they tasty, but your house is bound to smell like Christmas as they bake. These cookies are crisp on the outside and chewy in the center, perfect with a hot cup of tea and a roaring fire. The extent that you decorate these cookies is up to you. Maybe you want to use a small straw and poke a hole in each Read more

Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Google, posted a list of his favorite tips and tricks for Android 2.3 Gingerbread yesterday. These tips (along with some great app suggestions), will come in handy for new Android and Nexus S owners this holiday, as well as other device users that will be upgrading to the Gingerbread OS. Android has had quite the year, so I'm Read more

It's been a busy Monday for Google already, as the company officially announced the next version of its flagship Nexus One smartphone, called the Nexus S, which will be the first Android device to run Android 2.3 (codename: Gingerbread). The Android-toting masses won't be able to download Gingerbread just yet — that honor will first be bestowed on the Nexus S, which will launch next week on Read more

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us, it's time to turn our attention to the remaining Winter holidays! A recipe that you'll want to have on hand is this one for classic gingerbread cookies. These crowd-pleasing cookies are chewy, moist, and delicious. Thanks to freshly grated ginger, they have a rich and intense ginger flavor. The simplest way to make them is to shape the dough into balls, dunk Read more

Google's Nexus One was put to death earlier this Summer, but rumors are swirling that the next-generation device could be coming as soon as Nov. 8 thanks to press conference invites coming from Google and Samsung. Inside sources say that the Nexus Two is also touting the latest Android 2.3 operating system (code name: "Gingerbread") and could be coming to multiple carriers soon. However, Read more

New details about the next iteration of Android have found their way onto the Internet, and it looks like Android 3.0 (aka "Gingerbread") is going to be a big change from Android 2.0. Rumored to be coming in October, Gingerbread will support a resolution of 1280x760 for devices with displays that are four inches or larger — hello, Android tablet! It also means that we can expect the trend of Read more

This story was written by member FinnLover and comes from the Savory Sights group in the YumSugar Community. My husband and I visited Bergen's annual gingerbread city yesterday. Every year during Christmas time, children, adults, and local businesses donate homemade gingerbread houses to create what is supposedly the largest gingerbread city in the world. It is hosted in a huge tent in the city Read more

Here's a post from OnSugar blog Smörgåsbord: I made the trees by stacking star-shaped gingerbread cookies. To keep them from toppling over, I inserted a shortened skewer down the center of the stack of stars before they cooled, and hardened, completely. Then I dusted them with icing sugar and dotted them with a few silver dragees. Want to see more? Start following Smörgåsbord or start Read more

A couple of weeks ago I was asked to make a birthday cake for a friend. His favorite flavors are ginger, pumpkin, and chocolate — in that order, so I wanted to make some sort of layer cake that incorporated these elements. After an extensive Internet search, I couldn't find a recipe. There are tons of ginger chocolate desserts and lots of pumpkin chocolate confections, but nothing that Read more