11/28/2025
Gingerbread Five Spice Brownies
These gingerbread brownies are light with the five spice powder adding more warmth to the overall experience!
Originally when planning this out, I was thinking about a gingerbread cake. But after playing around with this a bit, I decided that brownies was really what my heart wanted instead :) These are a great soft alternative to gingerbread cookies and a lot less hassle to make!
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup Vanilla EVOO
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup molasses
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp ground ginger
- 1 tbsp five spice powder
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 13x9 pan with cooking spray or butter.
Melt butter in saucepan and remove from heat. Add both sugars and mix together. Add in vanilla evoo and whisk to incorporate - it will be a little stubborn so mix carefully and consistently. Once the majority of it has been absorbed into the sugars, add the molasses and whisk in completely. Add eggs and whisk again.
In a small bowl, mix flour, baking soda, salt, ground ginger and five spice powder. Add flour mixture to molasses mixture and whisk gently until all combined.
Pour batter into prepped pan and bake for 30-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean or with slight crumbs. Let cool before cutting.
Not feeling the five spice powder? you can leave it out and just do plain gingerbread brownies!
