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.

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.

A Gingerbread house may look beautiful on its own, but a little bit of ‘landscaping’ makes it a house straight out of a Fairytale! Learn how to make pretty roofs, doors, fences, trees, …

Mark Christmas or other occasions with a mouth-watering gingerbread house. Tasty and sugary, our compiled designs and ideas will help you craft the best dessert!

Paths and chimney ideas for gingerbread houses

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

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…