Round #8 of the delicious. Bake Club is all about getting in the festive cheer ahead of Christmas. Try your hand at this gingerbread house recipe and get ready to dazzle your friends and family this season.

Here’s something for everyone to enjoy at Christmas. This gingerbread has enough warm spice to make a sophisticated treat for the grown-ups, but not enough to turn youngsters off. The kids can get involved in making them, too; cutting out the shapes and icing them can be a lot of fun. This is an edited extract from The Tivoli Road Baker by Michael James with Pippa James (Hardie Grant Books, RRP $60), available in stores nationally.

No Christmas is complete without gingerbread people. Grab some icing and get the whole family involved in this fun recipe. You'll need gingerbread people cookie cutters (we used 13cm x 10.5cm and 12.5cm x 10.5cm cutters to make 16 gingerbread people) and a piping bag with a 2mm opening for this recipe.

Perfect for a day baking in the kitchen with the kids.

Forget the gingerbread house, this Christmas it's all about the gingerbread ice cream cake.

A no-bake, decadent Christmas dessert made in under 30 minutes.

Can it really be called Christmas without devouring a whole batch of these? Use this as a base recipe for making a gingerbread man or a gingerbread house.

Pineapple, booze and gingerbread...sounds like a dream Christmas to us.

Topped with a drizzle of chocolate and a dusting of icing sugar, indulgent gingerbread brownies make the perfect festive gift.

Valli Little's gingerbread milkshakes will delight both the young and young at heart.

Spell it out: these fun "Scrabble tiles" can be made for gifts, or use them to create place names at your table.

Cute little gingerbread are fun to make and tasty to eat.

Gingerbread ice cream? That's a yes from us!