The Collection of Gingerbread and Candle Making Craft contains wooden molds made in the 19th century used by gingerbread makers and candle makers. It was the basic tool of these craftsmen for shaping dough products, candles and votive offerings. The Ethnographic Museum keeps in its holdings 137 figural and ornamental wooden molds, always made in negative, whose shape gives the desired form to the product. The collection also contains tin molds used to cut dough and shape licitars or gingerbread, which is then painted with edible colors. Due to their diversity, licitars are objects that testify to the craftsmanship of each craftsman, and the motifs are diverse, from hearts, babies, horses, horsemen, to slippers, cyclists, roosters, necklaces with crosses (rosaries), small licitars used to decorate Christmas trees (hearts, cherries, babies, shoes, mushrooms, stars, handbags) and other interesting motifs, the work of master gingerbread makers, created from the 1920s to the present day. The same craftsmen also make candles of various sizes and purposes, and some of them are preserved in the Museum along with the tools they use for their work. Artists Pavlina Klarić Halić and Davor Halić created a series of ceramic positives from original museum wooden mold which they painted and breathed into them a glimpse of the past. The centuries of survival of the gingerbread and candle making craft gradually grew into a traditional craft, widespread in Pannonian Croatia, so today there are still about thirty gingerbread and candle makers active in the area from Karlovac to Osijek. In 2010, this craft was inscribed as the Gingerbread craft ​​Northern Croatia on UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and experts from the Ethnographic Museum also participated in the nomination process. In 2024, the Museum published a bilingual catalogue. The first part is an overview of the history of gingerbread and candle making craft in Europe and Croatia, the development of the museum's collection and the art of making gingerbread and candles, connecting them with the museum's holdings. A list of master gingerbread and candle makers whose objects are part of the museum's holdings is also included. The second part of the publication is a catalogue overview of the Collection with photographs.