Gingerbread spice
A ready-made spice blend for Christmas baking, usually cinnamon, cloves, allspice, nutmeg, cardamom, coriander, anise and ginger.
In German-speaking countries the blend sits on every supermarket baking shelf in autumn and winter; in English-speaking countries it is more often found in delicatessens, German or Eastern European shops, or by mail order.
Substitute:
It is easy to blend yourself, roughly four parts cinnamon to one part each of cloves, allspice and ginger, plus a pinch each of nutmeg, cardamom, coriander and anise; British mixed spice or American pumpkin pie spice come close, but without added cloves, anise and cardamom they taste flatter and less festive.