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It’s perfect for Christmas, but it’s also the kind of thing you’d want to enjoy all winter long. It has the richness of tiramisu, gingerbread spice, and a hint of rum. They’re sweet and creamy with a bite-sized crunch from the small gingerbread structure. It features a curved roof with a chimney and is piped with frosting. In this roundup, I’ve compiled a list of ideas to get your creative juices flowing.
First, we have a candy cane archway to serve as the door, with red peppermints, green Resess, and Hershey kisses to form a cute little tree. We have graham crackers and a little bit of frosting to keep it all together and to finish it off, decorate it with smatterings of red and green candy. Another traditional gingerbread house with some simplistic gilding designs. With more simplistic frosting designs and a broad array of candy, this house is every kid’s dream to eat. The roof is made with a combination of gummies and harder candies, with the roof being mostly made from frosting with some candies thrown into the mix. More gummies provide a colorful walkway with a decorative wreath of more floral candies.
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With mini frosting based pumpkins, this house is perfect for any fall activity. Or, just get wild with a graham cracker base, and all those fall-colored candies for decorations. This one takes on the characteristics of a public library. The library turned gingerbread is a great design idea by @holliscenterpubliclibrary. Next, I layered large peach and lavender color blocked plates with black and white grid plates and MeParty’s Hocus Pocus Small Plates. I added a peach napkin, black plastic fork to each place.
Out of the 16 choices here, let me know which Halloween gingerbread house is your favorite. And since Halloween is around the corner, it’s just the right time to buy your houses, gain inspiration and construct those homes. Check out these Halloween Gingerbread House Ideas to start building and decorating today.
Baby’s First Christmas Ideas
Every Christmas village needs a cute little chapel at the center of town. This sweet chapel by @mygingerbreadbakeris one to replicate. Born in New Zealand, I have ventured far from my Kiwi roots now living in Portland with my husband, two children, and chocolate lab. This site reflects my unique style, the life of a busy mom and party stylist, and showcases my own DIYs, vintage finds and party inspiration.

Be sure to stop and scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl partway through. The dough should be stiff enough for rolling right away, although you can chill it in the fridge for up to 3 days, if desired. Impress your friends at your next Halloween bash by adorning an amazing candy-covered haunted mansion, like this one from Beth Bryan Designs. It takes more time and patience than the others on this list, but the hard work pays off with bragging rights. Add candies to the front of the house, using the icing as your glue, working carefully around the shutters.
Log Cabin Gingerbread House
Although there are quite a few decorative flourishes, such as the hard candy and gumdrop window accents, most of the house is constructed from just clever use of frosting. With just a few pattern changes, you can create a diverse pattern that mirrors tiles if you only have gingerbread and icing available. Multi-colored candies like Sixlets make for a subtle but beautiful shingle effect that is both visually arresting and tasty as well.

And if this house isn’t proving enough, the smiling Santa in the doorway seems to like it. If you have a gingerbread house mold that is quite large, this large gingerbread house with stylish frosting patterns and templates can be a sweet inspiration for you. Framing the first floor of the house with large trees and adding a colorful bunch of candies surrounding the house is a nice touch. The fluffy white frosting on the roof with confetti sprinkles creates a playful touch to the elegant frosting designs on the front of the house. Pre-packaged gingerbread house kits are certainly the easiest way to go, but if you wish to bake your own, you’ll need a gingerbread house recipe.
This house trims down on its frosting use, using it very sparingly for some light accents along the front of the house and the shingles for the roof. The rest of the house is adorned with a tasty variety of candies, from the apple ring as the wreath, candy cane arches, to blue lollipops with smaller candies to form a makeshift flower. Then we have green jelly beans, arranged playfully for the roof, shadowing some peppermint shingles before we arrive at the broken kit-kits for some innovative windows. The sugar encrusted gingerbread house with frosting design has an almost artificial look to it as it has meticulous and hardened frosting and candy details. The sugar adds a hint of glimmer and fun to this unique gingerbread house.
Here you’ll find simple and delicious recipes that you can make in 30 minutes or less. This harvest house gingerbread is the perfect addition to your celebration. It’s a sweet, chewy, crunchy treat that’s easy to make and even easier to eat. The houses are made with graham crackers with vanilla frosting. Imagine the sweetest and most delicious pastry that’s ever crossed your lips. Now imagine that it’s transformed into an entire house of delight.
Check out this haunted gingerbread house by flickr user Pink.Lemonade. Love this gluten-free haunted gingerbread house at Torie Jayne. Check out this haunted gingerbread house at Julia M. Usher. If you plan on piping on windows, spiderwebs, or other decorations with royal icing, you will want to do that BEFORE assembling the house. That will give them time to dry and make it so much easier than piping on vertical walls.
The kisses provide the window accents, the shingles and the lawn decorations, all without a last-minute trip to the store. Plus, this house is lovely for all those that like a little touch of gold as well. Decorating a gingerbread house for the holiday season is a fun tradition for the whole family. The themes and ideas to decorate a gingerbread house are endless.