Cookie gingerbread house

The holiday season is upon us, and what better way to embrace the festive spirit than by indulging in a classic Christmas tradition – decorating a gingerbread house! If the idea of creating an elaborate gingerbread house feels a bit overwhelming, I got you. I designed this cookie set for simplicity without compromising the magic.

Explore these 26+ cute gingerbread house ideas to help you build and decorate the perfect eye-catching winter wonderland to enjoy this holiday season.

Follow my easy Gingerbread House recipe and extensive tips to bake, construct and decorate your own festive gingerbread house every Christmas

A new way to create a classic treat with sugar cookie dough made into a sugar cookie house and decorated like traditional gingerbread houses.

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This post may contain affiliate links, but all opinions are 100% mine! Sometimes I think I am kind of crazy with the things I take on, but then it all works out and I remember, once again, that crazy is okay. Like when I made sixteen gingerbread (okay, graham-cracker) cottages and had fourteen children over to decorate them...at first I thought I'd lost my mind. But then we had such fun that I can hardly wait to do it again next year! To pull this off, I pre-assembled the cottages the day…

This is my favorite molasses cookie. I use the recipe not only to create little houses for Christmas but also to make bunnies for Easter and stars for the Fourth of July. —Karen Haen, Sturgeon Bay, WI

The smell of gingerbread and the activity of decorating with sweets are both Christmas staples, but many people think making a gingerbread house from scratch is just too much bother for something that might turn out to be a disaster. You just don't know the tricks and tips! Those who've done it have developed some ways to make building a house of cookie dough much more foolproof. Learn how to get your lines straight, keep your walls from falling in, and even make stained glass windows…