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No matter how much time and skill you have, there’s a gingerbread house for you. Check out these three no-stress plans that use gingerbread kits and basic pantry items as a base so you can focus on the important part: adding all the fun details that make it special.
We’ve broken out these projects into easy (the most involved but still very achievable), easier (even less work and time), and easiest (made with graham crackers, it’s the simplest of the three but still impossibly adorable). So, gather the kids, warm up the hot cocoa, and get ready to “sleigh” the challenge of gingerbread house building!
Easy: Snowy log cabin gingerbread house
What you’ll need
- Gingerbread house kit (unassembled)
- White ready-to-use decorator icing
- Pretzel rods
- Pretzel sticks (small package)
- Flaked coconut
- Assorted gummy candy like green circles for the wreath
- Cherry sour balls
- Candy canes
For chocolate trees
- Pretzel sticks (small package)
- White chocolate
- Green food coloring
- Rainbow nonpareils
- Parchment paper
- Plastic freezer bag or pastry bag
- Soft caramels
Get the complete step-by-step of how to make & decorate this gingerbread log cabin pretzel house
Easier: Beach bungalow gingerbread house
What you’ll need
- Packaged, pre-assembled gingerbread house (undecorated)
- Ready-to-use white decorator icing
- Ready-to-use blue cake icing
- Graham crackers
- Unfrosted mini wheats cereal
- Pretzel sticks
- Candy to decorate house (we used mini jawbreakers for a “Christmas lights” effect)
- Assorted gummy candy like gummy sharks
- Goldfish crackers
Get the complete step-by-step of how to make & decorate this beach bungalow gingerbread house
Easiest : Colorful candy graham cracker cottages
What you’ll need
- 1 box graham crackers (you will need 5 to 6 whole crackers per house)
- Paper plate or piece of cardboard to hold the finished project
- Serrated knife
- Disposable icing piping bag
- Royal icing (recipe included in step-by-step instructions)
Decorations
- Flaked coconut (for snow)
- Rainbow candy such as Spree, M&M’s, or Skittles
- Colored candy canes
- Sour gummies in assorted colors
