Gingerbread Houses

There are a few ways to glue a gingerbread house together, but if you want a solid bond and you’re not concerned with keeping everything edible, you might have thought about using hot glue. Hot glue can be used to glue a gingerbread house together, but it makes the pieces where it touches inedible. The […]

When you’re sticking a gingerbread house together, you want it to stay in one piece fast and not fall apart as you’re decorating it. Different types of glues work better to accomplish this, so I’ve rounded up the pros and cons of four different types of edible glue for making and decorating the houses. So

Every December the videos of people using hot sugar to glue a gingerbread house together start to circulate online. And every year I shudder, thinking of all the severe sugar burns I’ve given myself over the years. Hot sugar is no joke, so should you use it to glue your gingerbread house together, or should

The classic way to glue a gingerbread house together is to use royal icing, which is a decorator icing that dries hard and acts as an edible glue. Royal icing isn’t the same as regular cake icing, so you need to make sure that you’re using the right thing! Using a hardening icing is important

When you’re making a gingerbread house you might be tempted to use regular buttercream icing, but you’ll be running some risks if you do! Using regular icing to assemble and decorate a gingerbread house can be risky because normal icing doesn’t dry hard, so it might not hold the house together. Store-bought icing and other

Humidity is the enemy of sugar and baked goods, so making a gingerbread house when it’s wet outside is a challenge. When I was a kid we lived in very humid places, and I thought that it was normal to use soup cans to prop your house up while it dried. I was also shocked

When you bake a gingerbread house yourself, you’ll need to make sure that you let the pieces cool off and set before you actually work with them to build the house. How long this takes is going to depend on what kind of dough you use, and the humidity where you are. The humidity is

Gingerbread comes in many forms, and you might be wondering if you can freeze it so that you can use it at a later date. Depending on what kind of gingerbread it is, and whether it’s raw dough or cooked pieces, you’ll be able to freeze it, but you might not need to. Gingerbread can

I made The Gingerbread Hotel for a fundraiser for the Richmond Children’s Museum years ago. It was designed to be a fun gingerbread house idea with a riot of color and things going on. The concept behind it was that it’s where the gingerbread men live and hang out when they’re not on duty. It