Chocolate gingerbread is a sweet baked item made from flour, eggs, honey or molasses, cocoa, butter and flavored with ginger. Gingerbread dough can be made into a cake or cookies as desired; however, chocolate gingerbread cookies are more popular than the cake. Common chocolate gingerbread varieties are chocolate chip gingerbread, triple chocolate gingerbread, fresh ginger chocolate ginger bread, etc.