Make Your Home Smell Like Yummy Ginger Cookies

The Warm Aroma of Fresh Baked Ginger Cookies

Ginger cookies are my all time favorites. I never go a Winter without some sweet, spicy, molasses-y ginger snaps or chocolate-coated Wicklein Nürnberg gingerbread (learn more). Ginger essential oil, both distilled and CO2, is also a favorite. The aroma is warm and uplifting…just like how I feel eating ginger cookies!

So, how could I not wrap up this series of posts on gingerbread without a ginger cookies essential oil blend?!

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The Inspiration

“(For making Gingerbread) take…one Ounce of Ginger beaten and sifted, of Mace, Cloves, and Nutmeg all together half an Ounce beaten very fine, Coriander-Seeds and Carraway-Seeds [sic] of each half an Ounce…”(1)

B. Powell, The Guide to Preferment or Powell’s Complete Book of Cookery (c. 1785)

In this old-fashioned gingerbread recipe, from Powell’s 18th Century cookbook, the amount of ginger alone is nearly the same as all the other spices combined. That’s a lot of ginger!

Powell’s gingerbread recipe inspired this ginger-forward Warm Ginger Cookies essential oil blend. You’ll see it’s more complex than most gingerbread essential oil blends you’ll find. That’s because this one is made “from scratch” to reflect the complexity of the aroma of freshly baked ginger cookies!

⭐️Warm Ginger Cookies Blend Recipe

• 4 drops distilled Ginger essential oil (Zingiber officinale)
• 2 drops Ginger CO2 (Zingiber officinale)
• 2 drops Clove bud essential oil (Eugenia caryophyllata)
• 2 drops Coriander essential oil (Coriandrum sativum)
• 2 drops Black Pepper essential oil (Piper nigrum)
• 1 drop Nutmeg essential oil (Myristica fragrans)
• 1 drop Caraway essential oil (Carum carvi)
• 1 drop Tangerine essential oil (Citrus reticulata)
• 1 drop Cinnamon Bark essential oil (Cinnamomum verum)

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Tips for Making Warm Ginger Cookies Blend

I recommend making this blend in a small bottle and letting it sit for 5 minutes or so before using. To me, the aroma is different after a short resting period.

When the blend rests, the earthiness of the Caraway mellows, allowing the softer licorice aroma to shine. A fresh, breath opening aroma is more apparent. The spices sweeten and seem to become richer. And the fruity aromas of Coriander and Tangerine combine with the spices to create an almost perfume-like note.

Warm Ginger Cookies has a warm comforting aroma. It’s uplifting, energy cleansing, and harmonizing. And as a bonus, all of these essential oils are potent air purifiers, meaning it’s a wonderful blend to use throughout cold & flu season.

3 Ways to Use Warm Ginger Cookies Blend

1. To diffuse, add 7-8 drops per 100 ml water to an ultrasonic diffuser.

2. Or for a softer ambiance, add a few drops of Warm Ginger Cookies directly to a passive diffuser or natural potpourri.

☀️Spotlight on Mace and Nutmeg: Two Halves of the Whole

As illustrated in this beautiful plate by HA Köhler, nutmeg and mace both come from the same fruit!

The inner nut is the nutmeg we grate onto eggnog. The nutmeg nut is covered in a red casing—this is mace. Like nutmeg, mace is lovely in baked goods. And it also makes a great seasoning for braised meats!

Mace has an aroma and taste similar to nutmeg, but softer, with a subtle citrusy, pepperiness.

In this aromatic Warm Ginger Cookies blend, we are using a touch of Black Pepper and Tangerine essential oils to emulate that Mace “note.”

I’d love to hear about your favorite way to use the Warm Ginger Cookies blend! Please let us know in the comments below.

More About Gingerbread

• Making Gingerbread Houses (a book review)
• Yuletide Sugar and Spice Sprinkle
• Gingerbread History – A Short Sweet Look

Mom’s Shopping List

You can find all of these essential oils in my Amazon shopping list of Favorite Winter Oils. And here are my preferred sources for each of the essential oils I personally use for Warm Ginger Cookies.

• Black Pepper essential oil (Piper nigrum):
  • Plant Therapy, organic (Direct and Amazon)💛
  • Aromatics International, organic.

• Caraway essential oil (Carum carvi):
  • Edens Garden, sustainable (on Amazon).

• Cinnamon Bark essential oil (Cinnamomum cassia / C. zeylanicum):
  • Aromatics International, organic
  • Plant Therapy, organic (Direct and Amazon).

• Coriander essential oil (Coriandrum sativum):
  • Aromatics International, organic
  • Plant Therapy, sustainable (Direct and Amazon).

• Clove Bud essential oil (Eugenia caryophyllata):
  • Aromatics International, sustainably wildcrafted
  • Plant Therapy, organic (Direct and Amazon).

• Ginger essential oil (Zingiber officinalis):
  • Aromatics International, organic distilled
  • Plant Therapy, distilled, sustainable (Direct and Amazon)
  • Plant Therapy, organic CO2 (Direct and Amazon).

• Nutmeg essential oil (Myristica fragrans):
  • Plant Therapy, sustainable (Direct and Amazon)
  • Aromatics International, sustainably wildcrafted.

• Tangerine essential oil (Citrus reticulata):
  • Plant Therapy, organic (Direct and Amazon)💛
  • Edens Garden, sustainable (on Amazon).

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All recipes provided are for personal use and are not designed for re-sale or large-scale manufacturing.
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