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Or go abstract and top a plain frosted cookie with chocolate or gumdrop polka dots. “It’s so much easier than doing the whole ‘make your own melted sugar,’” Boake adds. If you love the idea of gingerbread houses but don’t want to tackle building a 3D structure, just make a batch of your favorite cutouts!
All you have to do is cut out holes for the windows and doors and decorate your creation with paint, paper, glitter, and other craft materials. If you’d like a more traditional look, you can use graham crackers and wood craft sticks to create a life-size model home covered in frosting. Add ornaments to your icing trees, add lights to your holiday garland or create a cute walkway out of jumbo sprinkles. You can have all kinds of fun customizing the roof of your gingerbread house. Then cover it with sparkling sanding sugar or sprinkles to create a fun design. Use frosting tips to get a petal or leaf look for the garland and trim.
A Large Gingerbread House with Stylish Frosting Ideas
Southern Living is part of the Dotdash Meredith publishing family. Divide Cookie Dough in half; shape each half into a disk , and wrap in plastic wrap. Beat in egg yolk, molasses, milk, and vanilla on low speed just until combined, about 30 seconds, stopping to scrape sides of bowl as needed. With mixer on low, gradually add flour mixture, beating on low speed just until combined, about 1 minute. A former in-house editor at Taste of Home, Kelsey now writes articles and novels from her home in Milwaukee. Her debut novel, Girl in the Rearview Mirror, will be published in June 2019 by William Morrow.
To get you brainstorming for how to win best of show, here are 40 gingerbread house decoration ideas. These cool gingerbread house ideas are the best part of the holiday season! With these unique decorating designs, you’ll delight the entire family from kids to adults.
Gingerbread House Decorating Party
Just five minutes in the oven at 350ºF is all you need to make these windows. A fantastic and whimsical design that shows off your artistic talents. Blue frosting forms a lovely trim that provides just the right amount of contrast to showcase the floral pattern.
Having a gingerbread house decorating party during the Christmas season is really fun, but it can also be REALLY expensive if you're the one throwing the party. To make colorful trees, roll an ice cream cone that’s been covered in royal icing in sprinkles so that it gets covered. Santa will be happy to land on the rooftop of this cute gingerbread house made from an A-frame kit. The impressive chimney made from graham crackers, icing and red chewy candy is just big enough for him to slide down. These gingerbread house ideas are great places to start when making your edible Christmas village.
Marshmallow Snowmen
This year I turned my little front porch into a Christmas Candy Land. I was on a mission to create something fun and whimsical that would have my kids SUPER excited for Christmas. Every time we walk through the door it is like we enter our own little gingerbread house. You only need a few miscellaneous household items to create your very own giant candy and giant candy garland. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough to 1/8-inch thickness. Gingerbread people are classics, but feel free to use your favorite Christmas cookie cutters.
Follow us onPinterest,Facebook, and Instagram for all of the latest recipes and content. You just need to make sure that whatever you insert the sticks into is strong enough to hold them up. If you make a light outside the house or over the front porch, you can use a yellow gumball as the light part of it. If you’re in Florida, you might want to go with real cotton balls for a longer-lasting chimney smoke.
Peppermint Roof and Camel Chimney with white Frosting Smoke
A sugarplum, that quintessential Christmas treat, is really a blanket term for candies, pastries and anything delectable and sweet. Park a life-size decorative nutcracker in the front yard, next to Santa's fancy sleigh and the reindeer, and sugarplum the rest of the landscaping. Painting a dropcloth strawberry-pink or chocolate-brown is a fun and messy project for school-age kids, who can help with draping the trees, too. If you have no suitable trees, make upside-down cones from dowels or bamboo garden poles and cover them in burlap with a scoop of canvas ice cream. Make or buy large standing gingerbread boys and girls to edge the front walls of the house or the front porch railing.
They’re square and are the consistency of a hard taffy, so you can melt them and they’ll solidify when they cool off. They can also be stuck to the house if you want a peppermint theme or just a border. The bears can also be assembled in the courtyard of your house to be the citizens of the gingerbread land. The little square pretzels can be used for windows, or to make fences and gates in the garden.
It may look like there's no gingerbread in this piece of work, but there is! It's just hiding under the pretzels for a yummy sweet and salty combo. Make pink a Christmas color this year with this gorgeous gingerbread shop. This cottage may take a longer to create than some of the others, but the details and end result make it worth it.
This small and green gingerbread house design has charming details. The house has red and green candies used as Christmas lights on the roof and a short chimney. A fun take on the traditional gingerbread house with more emphasis placed on the front of the house. Multi-colored gumdrops form a narrow little path out of the snow, bringing more focus on the frosting and candied details of the front door. This small, gingerbread house that has quite a lot of character.
It has a fantastic combo of sweet and salty flavors with a hint of spice. Made by@constellationinspiration on Instagram for Cherry Bombe’s holiday issue last year, it’s a little easier than other more intricate houses and comes together in a few hours. An Epicurious gingerbread house by Judy Kim that the Brady Bunch would love.
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