Decorate a Gingerbread House and make a little Magic!
We LOVE Gingerbread! 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! It's 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 for gingerbread house ideas! 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 gingerbread house 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 their own photos and stories making it truly a community effort! Did you ever think you'd be part of a gingerbread community?? Well, you are now!
Gingerbread isn't just for Christmas anymore.
We'll share plans and patterns for lots of non-holiday gingerbread house 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!
And Don't forget the gingerbread man. A favorite poem as well as cookie, the gingerbread man has a rich history and can be great fun for parties as well as school class projects.
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 recipes and decorating ideas. Then, share photos and comments about your OWN gingerbread projects. With this site, we hope you'll find yourself in Gingerbread Heaven!
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.
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Pictures of Gingerbread Houses These pictures of gingerbread houses will inspire you, amaze you, or just make you laugh.
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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!
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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.
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Free Patterns for Gingerbread Houses (better really!) What's better than free Patterns for Gingerbread Houses? We will actually PAY YOU to build some of our gingerbread house templates!
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Gingerbread House Templates - Photos and Notes View and Share Photos of Houses (and castles, clock towers,...) made from this site's Gingerbread House Templates.
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Gingerbread Recipes Best of the best gingerbread recipes for gingerbread houses, icing, gingerbread cake, ornaments, ginger cookies, and more
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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!
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Gingerbread House Construction can be almost as Fun as Decorating... We'll show you how Gingerbread House Construction can be less work and more fun!
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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!
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Haunted Gingerbread Houses View and share haunted gingerbread houses. Get loads of decorating ideas for this fun way to celebrate Halloween.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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Gingerbread Supplies and Molds Gingerbread Supplies and Molds for baking all types of gingerbread treats.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,)...
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Nothing beats Gingerbread House Contests to get you in the Holiday Mood! We've listed all the Gingerbread House Contests and Competitions we could find on the web throughout the United States. Tell us if we've missed one you know of in the US or anywhere in the world.
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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
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Gingerbread Men Recipes, History, Decorating,... Learn all about gingerbread men, from their history to how to make gingerbread cookies.
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Our Favorite Ginger Recipes (other than gingerbread of course!) These are our non-gingerbread ginger recipes: soups, sauces, ginger cookies,... We LOVE ginger
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Gingerbread quotes and definitions Here are some interesting gingerbread quotes and definitions we've found.
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Bakeries Directory We've compile a bakeries directory by geographical area as well as some other criteria (vegan, gluten-free,...) Check it out!
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Gingerbread Links and other Kid and Christmas-related Links We recommend visiting these other sites that are Christmas, Kid, or Gingerbread Links
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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.
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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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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?
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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!
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Contact Us Contact Us at gingerbread-heaven.com with Questions or your own Gingerbread Tips
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