Gingerbread House Blog

The Gingerbread House Blog covers All Things Gingerbread!

We share our favorite recipes, tips on icing and decorating, free patterns and templates, and photos of gingerbread houses from plain to intricate to down-right strange.

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The First Snow

This house was modeled after several houses in New Bern, NC. I combined the look and style of three individual houses and came up with this one. It

Gingerbread Men Recipes, History, Decorating,...

Learn all about gingerbread men, from their history to how to make gingerbread cookies.

Gingerbread Recipes

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

Gingerbread Ice Cream Sandwiches

If you love ice cream sandwiches, you're going to LOVE gingerbread ice cream sandwiches!

Kid Links - Fun kid-related websites

We recommend visiting these Kid Links

Photos and Decorating Ideas for Gingerbread Houses

These Photos of gingerbread creations will give you tons of decorating ideas for gingerbread houses.

Ginger Cookies are a delicious treat year-round!

Here are our favorite Ginger cookies... recipes and tips

Carrot Ginger Soup - What's not to love?

Most carrot ginger soup recipes are vegetarian, low fat (or even fat-free,) the ingredients are available year-round, and, of course, it's delicious!

Soft Ginger Cookies are chewy and oh, so yummy!

Here we share our favorite recipes for chewy, soft ginger cookies.

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!

Unique and fun Gingerbread House Templates

Why use the same old gingerbread house templates that everyone uses? If you're going to go to the trouble to bake and decorate a gingerbread house, it might as well be unique and fun, right?

Other Miscellaneous, non-gingerbread links

Take a look at these non-gingerbread sites we've found and enjoyed.

Gingerbread Books

Gingerbread Books can help give you additional ideas

Gingerbread Supplies and Molds

Gingerbread Supplies and Molds for baking all types of gingerbread treats

Gingerbread quotes and definitions

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

Cookie and Cake Decorating Links

We recommend visiting these Cookie and Cake Decorating Links

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?

Gingerbread Christmas Ornament

Learn how to make a Gingerbread Christmas Ornament for your tree or for gifts.

The First Snow

This won Top Ten in the National Gingerbread Competition at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville. It took 500 hours to create. It was modeled after an old

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.

Working with fondant is easy and fun

We'll teach you tips and techniques for working with fondant, coloring, flavoring, shaping,...

Use our basic fondant recipe to create your own edible clay

Our basic fondant recipe creates a smooth, bright white edible clay... perfect for cake decorating, candies, and of course, OUR favorite gingerbread house details!

This Gingerbread Bowl Recipe is perfect for a centerpiece, a dessert, or even the base of a rounded gingerbread house.

Use our gingerbread bowl recipe as an actual bowl (filled with gingerbread men, cookies, candies, candles,...) OR as the base for a rounded gingerbread house, like a gingerbread igloo covered with icing and sugar cubes.

Our Favorite Ginger Recipes (other than gingerbread of course!)

These are our non-gingerbread ginger recipes: soups, sauces, ginger cookies,... We LOVE ginger

These ginger dressing recipes will make your salad pop!

Try our favorite ginger dressing recipes.

Cooking and Recipe Links

We recommend visiting these Cooking and Recipe Links

How long does gingerbread keep.

I want to make some gingerbread men for my sons birthday party a few days before the party, just wanted to know how long they keep for if kept in the

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!

Make a Lighted Gingerbread House!

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!