Decorate a Gingerbread House
and make a little Magic!

Decorating a gingerbread house is magical... the smell... the taste... the creativity and freedom you feel while building your own, colorful dream home! There's nothing like it for getting "visions of sugar-plums" dancing around in your head! Building and decorating a gingerbread house is a wonderful tradition for kids to grow up with. Best of all, it let's us adults rekindle that magic for a little while!

In case you haven't guessed it yet, this site is all about Gingerbread. We'll share our favorite recipes, tips for making icing and decorating, kits, patterns and plans, candy suggestions, and lots and lots of photos for inspiration! From ornate and intricate to a model of simplicity to down-right strange, you'll find something to inspire you and help you come up with your own decorating ideas.

We've built and decorated our own gingerbread creations, of course, AND we've visited many contests to bring you the best of the best (and the strangest of the strange!) Best of all, other visitors to this site have shared hundreds of photos and stories of their own, making it truly a community effort! Did you ever think you'd be part of a gingerbread community?? Well, you are now!

No More "Cookie Cutter" Gingerbread House Designs

We offer for sale our own gingerbread house patterns as well as several terrific free templates. There's a place to request a particular pattern or vote on other people's suggestions, and we can even build you your own custom-designed template if you wish!

Gingerbread isn't just for Christmas anymore.

We'll also share plans and patterns for lots of non-holiday edible decorating ideas, as well as ginger recipes and even how to grow your own ginger.

Our pages on fondant, gum paste, marzipan,... can help you learn which sugar craft "clay" to use for each kind of decorating. You'll get recipes and learn skills that you can use for cake decorating as well as gingerbread!

Want the fun, but not the work?

Anyone who's built a gingerbread house from scratch knows that it can take quite a bit of effort (even an entire weekend sometimes!) to get the house ready for decorating. Whether you want the full experience of house creation or just want to do the "fun part" - only decorating - we'll share all the ideas and experience YOU need to make sure you have FUN and not frustration along the way!

Look around these pages and try out some of our many patterns, recipes and decorating ideas. Then, share photos and comments about your OWN edible projects. With this site, we hope you'll find yourself in Gingerbread Heaven!

Gingerbread Topics We Cover

Pictures of Gingerbread Houses
These pictures of gingerbread houses will inspire you, amaze you, or just make you laugh.

Gingerbread House Patterns that aren't "Cookie-Cutter"!
Our collection of gingerbread house patterns are completely unique. Don't see what you're looking for? Tell us about your gingerbread template idea and we'll see what we can do.

Free Patterns for Gingerbread Houses
Try out one or both of these Free Patterns for Gingerbread Houses.

Gingerbread House Templates - Photos and Notes
View and Share Photos of Houses (and castles, clock towers,...) made from this site's Gingerbread House Templates.

Gingerbread House Windows can be made a number of ways... from simple to elaborate.
Our favorite Gingerbread House Windows are formed by melting butterscotch candies. We'll show you how.

Try a Gingerbread House Kit for a simple way to get in the Holiday spirit!
A Gingerbread House Kit gives you all the FUN with none of the hassle!

Gingerbread Supplies and Molds
Gingerbread Supplies and Molds for baking all types of gingerbread treats.

Edible Clay, like fondant, gum paste, and marzipan, can be used to make beautiful, intricate, edible cake decorations OR, of course, gingerbread house decorations!
These edible clay methods: fondant, gum paste, marzipan, and pastillage are all related but have critical differences.

Learn how to make fondant for all of your cake (or gingerbread house) decorating needs!
We'll show you how to make fondant, starting with our basic fondant recipe, and then working with fondant to create figures, characters, and other gingerbread house accessories.

This gum paste recipe is all you need to create beautiful edible decorations.
Learn how to make gumpaste iwht our basic gum paste recipe. You'll create a modeling dough that dries more rigid than fondant... Perfect for creating figures, gum paste flowers, and other detailed gingerbread house decorating accessories.

Use our favorite marzipan recipe to learn how to make marzipan candies. It's easy, delicious, and fun !
Start with our marzipan recipe and then use it like playdough to create figures, characters, and other cake decorating or gingerbread house accessories.

Gingerbread Men Recipes, History, Decorating,...
Learn all about gingerbread men, from their history to how to make gingerbread cookies.

Gingerbread quotes and definitions
Here are some interesting gingerbread quotes and definitions we've found.

Bakeries Directory
We've compile a bakeries directory by geographical area as well as some other criteria (vegan, gluten-free,...) Check it out!

Gingerbread Links and other Kid and Christmas-related Links
We recommend visiting these other sites that are Christmas, Kid, or Gingerbread Links

Gingerbread House Blog
The Gingerbread House Blog keeps you up-to-date with all additions and changes to the gingerbread-house-heaven.com Web site. Subscribe here.

What do YOU want to see on this site?
Gingerbread templates, kits, or custom made gingerbread houses? What do you want us to add to this site?

Search our Gingerbread Site and the Web for gingerbread-related info
Search the web OR within our gingerbread website for all things gingerbread and ginger... or anything else you'd like to search for!

Photos from Gingerbread Contests
What better way to get inspired than to see lots of photos from gingerbread contests?

Gingerbread House Photos for inspiration
View and share your own gingerbread house photos. Get tons of gingerbread house ideas from this helpful community and then come back and share your own gingerbread decorating ideas.

How to make gingerbread houses! It's fun, rewarding, and delicious
Want to learn how to make gingerbread houses? Follow our step-by-step instructions and you can't fail!

Low Stress Gingerbread House Construction
We'll show you how Gingerbread House Construction can be less work and more fun!

Fabulous Gingerbread House Decorating Ideas
New to Gingerbread Houses? Try some of these gingerbread house decorating ideas and look like a pro in no time!

Lighted Gingerbread House - Add a cozy glow!
Gingerbread Houses are SO much cooler when they have lit-up windows! Learn how to make your own lighted gingerbread house! It's really easy!

These Gingerbread Contest Videos will amaze you!
At the National Gingerbread Contest at the Grove Park Inn, the creativity and detail-work is something that a photograph just can't capture. Check out these videos.

About Gingerbread-House-Heaven.com
Want to know why I built Gingerbread-House-Heaven and became the Gingerbread Mann?

Gingerbread House Icing is the "Glue" that holds the house together.
The gingerbread house icing is also what makes a house look... and taste terrific!

These edible creations will inspire and entertain you.
View other people's and share your own edible creations made of fondant, gum paste, marzipan, pastillage, chocolate, sugar, gingerbread (or course,)...

Our Favorite Ginger Recipes (other than gingerbread of course!)
These are our non-gingerbread ginger recipes: soups, sauces, ginger cookies,... We LOVE ginger

Gingerbread House Instructions through easy to follow videos
We've collected the best videos on the web for demonstrating gingerbread house instructions for baking, building, and decorating your own, easy gingerbread house

Gingerbread Recipes
Best of the best gingerbread recipes for gingerbread houses, icing, gingerbread cake, ornaments, ginger cookies, and more

Contact Us
Contact Us at gingerbread-heaven.com with Questions or your own Gingerbread Tips

Recipe for Gingerbread Cookies
Here's our favorite recipe for gingerbread cookies, to cut into shapes or not. We also share a soft gingerbread cookie recipe.

Have a Gingerbread Question?
Ask a gingerbread question AND answer other visitors' questions if you can! How long can a gingerbread house last? Marzipan tricks? How to support a roof? Ask anything that's gingerbread-related!





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