The name gingerbread is a pretty good description of what it actually is. Gingerbread is a bread product that has been flavoured with ginger.
Ginger is a spice and the name refers to the root, or rhizome, of the plant zingiber officinale, which originated in southern China. The spice has since been spread across the rest of the world, and is used in both sweet and savoury dishes. As well as the ginger, gingerbread is normally flavoured with treacle, or molasses, instead of sugar.
Gingerbread comes in a wide range of products, all of which have gingerbread in the name. These range from types of cakes, to items more reminiscent of a biscuit, or cookie.
One common gingerbread item is the gingerbread man, which is a biscuit/cookie that is shaped in a rough semblance of a man, or woman's, figure. The figure is then usually adorned with such as icing and small candies, to add features to it.
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