Gingerbread is flavored with ginger and molasses and is usually in a type of cake or quick bread form. A ginger cookie is flavored with ginger and molasses also but is usually rolled into balls or flattened and cut out in the form of a cookie (a ginger man) and some times it is frosted. Note that you can not use a ginger cookie such as this one to use cookie cutters with, to make ginger men. This dough and similar recipes have leavening agents that do not take on the same smooth flat cookie texture as a cut out cookie dough.