Put your architectural and landscaping skills to the test by building your own gingerbread house. If you don’t know where to start, we’ve provided a basic recipe, template and tips for making your house the best on the block.

Ideas and Tips

• Shingle the roof with cereal wheat squares, wafer cookies or nonpareils.


• Use colored candies to make a cobblestone walkway. Use frosting to glue the candy into a path that leads up to the house.


• Make shutters with sections of graham crackers.


• Sprinkle shredded coconut around the house to create snow.


• Mirrors and aluminum foil make excellent streams and skating ponds.


• Fashion chocolate licorice into fences.


• Stack large marshmallows to create snowmen.


• Top a candy cane with a gumdrop to make a street lamp.

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Gingerbread House Templates

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