Pat Ashley Howard is one of the most decorated gingerbread house competition artists in the world. Follow the link below to check out her award-winning body of work and read the story of her gingerbread house building adventures in her own … Continue reading
Here is an easy gingerbread cookie car design that you can customize with candy and decorations. Scroll down to get the free printable template. Piped Royal Icing Headlights I made the headlights and tail lights out of royal icing, which … Continue reading
This custom gingerbread house design has some unusual angles to it. It also includes a front vestibule attachment. The diamond-shaped windows were formed using square cookie cutters. The attached doors were embossed. Instructions on how to emboss and overlay gingerbread dough are in my video ebook … Continue reading
This printable gingerbread cookie house template has slanted walls and a big overhanging roof. It can be used to make a birdhouse design or a traditional gingerbread house with an optional chimney attachment. I find this sort of design easier to construct … Continue reading
This video tutorial shows how to make five different styles of gingerbread house windows including cut holes, stained glass, lit candy, overlay, and freestanding style. VIDEO: Gingerbread House Windows 5 Ways Here is my recipe kit Gingerbread House Dough Recipe & … Continue reading
The following video tutorial shares two of my favorite tricks for building stable gingerbread house structures. VIDEO: Gingerbread House Sealing & Edging Here is my baking guide Gingerbread House Dough Recipe & Baking Instructions VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Hey Bakers! I’m Kristen … Continue reading
VIDEO: Gingerbread House Candy Here are my gingerbread house candy decorating tips including: – Where to buy candy for gingerbread house decorating – Which kinds work best and worst – How to display your candy in clever & accessible ways – How to … Continue reading
I pulled together a little video of this giant gingerbread sandcastle adventure. VIDEO: Giant Gingerbread House Building & Smashing This giant gingerbread sandcastle was the dessert at Viacom’s Holiday Beach Bash in Santa Monica, California, 2014 Note to readers: Please … Continue reading
This giant cookie sandcastle is my biggest gingerbread house yet. Click the link below to see closeup photos of this 100% edible dessert. >> Giant Gingerbread Castle << Check out my kits Gingerbread House Dough Recipe & Baking Instructions Gingerbread House Decoration & Construction Gingerbread House Tutorials Complete … Continue reading
Here are 30 articles about gingerbread cookie & candy house with ideas and inspiration for your holiday baking adventures! click below to read the article >> 30 Gingerbread House Ideas << >> 30 Gingerbread House Ideas << click above to read the article … Continue reading
This amazingly realistic gingerbread competition piece made by Heather Plawski Lewis won 2nd place in the 2011 Grove Park Inn Gingerbread House Competition, the most prestigious gingerbread house competition in the U.S. It comes with a wonderful explanation of how they were … Continue reading
Gingerbread Creature Feature “Draco the Dragon” from the movie, Dragonheart Made by Tiffany Morse This incredible gingerbread cookie creature was crafted by Tiffany Morse, a fellow gingerbread house artist who I met in the California competition circuit. I think it’s … Continue reading
Gingerbread House Feature “The Children Were Nestled All Snug In Their Beds” from The Night Before Christmas Made by Linda Carney VIDEO: Behind the Scenes with Linda Carney This award-winning gingerbread house, entitled, “The Children Were Nestled All Snug In Their … Continue reading
On the 23rd of December, in Santa’s workshop gingerbread house, the gumpaste reindeer start to get organized and pair off for the present run, deciding who’s going to pull the cookie sleigh in what order. Rudolph, Blitzen, and Santa have … Continue reading
Here is a modeling chocolate figurine sitting in a pool of pink royal icing beside her strawberry-colored swag-piped gingerbread house. This design includes an optional chimney attachment. Follow this link to read my Royal Icing Wreath Tutorial The highlight of the … Continue reading
Here is how I made the chocolate waterfall for the Wonka Candy Factory Gingerbread House. First, I created a DIY paper gingerbread house template for the whole structure. Here’s a look at how the waterfall element evolved from creation to completion. Once the … Continue reading
Embedded into one of the side walls of my giant Wonka Gingerbread Candy Factory, there was a bubble machine. To make the bubbles for my gingerbread cookie bubble machine, I first baked some small gingerbread cookie circles and different sized … Continue reading
If you look up close at this yellow, white, and green fancy gingerbread house, you can see that the vine patterns are seamlessly inlaid into the royal icing. All you need is a piping bag and toothpick. This effect was … Continue reading
Cookie Artist’s Feature Gingerbread Candy Factory Made by Lynne Schuyler of Idaho, U.S.A. Check out this amazing gingerbread cookie candy factory made by Lynne Schuyler. She is a wicked talented gingerbread house building hobbyist and this is the edible candy … Continue reading
Piping royal icing wreaths is a similar technique to piping royal icing fir trees. You can watch how a video on how to execute this technique in the book Gingerbread House Decoration & Construction. Next: Royal Icing Vine Inlay You might … Continue reading