Gingerbread Houses

Gingerbread house kits weren’t around when I was a kid, but they’re all over the place now. I hadn’t used them before I started this website, and I learned pretty quickly that they can be improved. And sometimes they need to be improved! So, how do you make a gingerbread house kit better? It would […]

Decorating gingerbread houses is usually done with candy, but it’s hard to decide how much to buy. The size of the house is going to play a part, as will the size of the candy itself and the ages of the people doing the decorating. So how much candy do you need to plan on

Just because Christmas is over doesn’t mean that you should put the gingerbread decorations away. There are a lot of holidays that would make a good excuse to decorate a gingerbread or cookie house, and Valentine’s Day is one of the best. Valentine’s Day gingerbread houses can be decorated with piped designs, or with the

Making a gingerbread house can be more fun when you design your own template, and it’s not that difficult to do. If you keep a few things in mind you should be able to make a house that looks like anything you want it to. Start with a design idea. To design your own gingerbread

When you bake your own gingerbread houses, you can add notches to the side so that they fit together in an interlocking pattern. This is helpful to keep the houses from falling apart as the icing dries, and it’s especially useful in humid climates. I adapted a couple of basic patterns that I’ve used before

When I make a gingerbread house or other item for the first time, I’ll make a mockup of it in cardboard first to make sure that the pieces all fit together. This gingerbread sleigh is a pattern that I got from my mother years ago, and it makes an easy-to-assemble and sturdy gingerbread sleigh that

This template for a gingerbread barn is pretty easy to assemble, and can be decorated with realistic designs or by covering it with candy. I designed this one with doors and a window to glue onto the front, but if you prefer you could cut out the shapes on the front and then add some

I designed this gingerbread lighthouse pattern from a photo that I found online. It’s based on an octagonal design so that you can build it in sections and you don’t need to do any weird baking methods to create curves. I did a cardboard mockup of this one as I designed the pieces to make

Making a template for a gingerbread birdhouse is pretty simple because you can use the basic pattern for a small house and add a few details that are different. For this one I used the interlocking template with no notches house pattern as the basis for the main part of the house, and added a

This is the easiest gingerbread house template there is…A simple to assemble A-Frame with only two shapes and four pieces once it’s cut out. Cutting out the template. This template can be downloaded and printed on a sheet of letter-sized paper or A4 paper. The cardboard mockup shows how simple the construction of it will