11 Adorable Gingerbread House Styles That You Have To Try This Christmas Season
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Christmas is right around the corner, and you must be getting ready for a spectacular celebration. But what Christmas-celebrating household is complete without a Gingerbread house? Well, if you’re a little stumped for ideas, we’ve got a delightful list of treats in store for you. Gingerbread houses are a Christmas tradition and usually consist of gingerbread or graham cracker houses that taste absolutely delightful. You can decorate them any way you choose (hint: the more sprinkles, the better!). Top your gingerbread house off with some fresh vanilla flavored icing or sprinkle it with peppermint candy, the whole thing is a gingerbread treat! So get your whole family involved and grab some icing! Check out this list for some fantastic ideas:
1. Gingerbread Hut
While this gingerbread hut might look easy to make when you take a quick glance at it, it is actually quite complex. You can cut apart a piece of gingerbread and place it on top of the roof rather than carving it out. Use vanilla icing to create a tiled textured for your roof and top it off with some vanilla shingles and windowsills. Use food coloring to paint a door onto your gingerbread hut and there you have it!
2. Candylicious
Who doesn’t love candy and gummy beans? If you’ve got a sweet tooth that really likes to test its limits, we don’t blame you! Christmas is the time to go crazy and stuff yourself on all your favorite treats! Especially after the crazy year we’ve all had. Use a jelly flavoring of your choice to create doors and windows and add a peppermint piece to the front door. Add vanilla icing along the house to create borders.
3. White Chocolate Wonderland
This magical gingerbread home almost resembles a chapel. Use white chocolate to create the various textures of the roof and give your gingerbread house the winter kick it needs. You can use green icing to create the delicate leaves of the creeper plant along its front door. Add a cute heart to the front of the red door to make the treat look even more inviting.
4. Festive Gingerbread House
This super festive gingerbread house is for those who love to go all out when they are making their gingerbread houses! You can use cherries and green icing to decorate the house and white vanilla icing to line the roof of your gingerbread house. Add a gingerbread family in the garden of this house to give the house a more homely feel.
5. Gingerbread House With Garden
This gingerbread house is quite simple and all you really need is a carving knife and some white icing. Create an elaborate tiled roof pattern on top of your roof and go crazy on the decorative pattern across the gingerbread house. Use white chocolate to create a frosted reindeer for your big gingerbread garden.
6. Flat Gingerbread House
This gingerbread house is for those who don’t want to invest too much time into building and carving a gingerbread house but still want to have one at their dinner table. This design is totally kid-friendly, and you can let your little ones have fun with it. Just make sure you decorate the gingerbread door’s frame with gems and icing! Add any and every kind of mini candy you can get your hands on.
7. Log Cabin Style Home
Are you a fan of movies like The Woods? This log cabin style home is perfect for those horror story fans and is the perfect addition to your Christmas dinner. You can add a candle inside the house to give it a warming glow or simply place some fairy lights in there for a photo opportunity. Top off this gingerbread house with some white vanilla icing and some tasty chocolate stars.
8. Frosted Cabin
If you’re someone who is in total competition when it comes to building a gingerbread house, then this is the cabin for you. Use chocolate and vanilla to create the wall pattern across the gingerbread house and green icing to make plants and a Christmas wreath. Use gingerbread cookies of varying sizes with green icing on top to make your Christmas trees.
9. Numbered House
This compact gingerbread house looks like it was taken right off the street from Privet Drive (shoutout to Harry Potter fans). You can create an indented roof pattern by using a knife to cut into the roof and give it an even tiling. Use vanilla icing to style the rest of the gingerbread house cake and make sure you add your lucky number to the door frame!
10. Gems And Peppermint Style
Who doesn’t love the taste of peppermint and gems? Give a classic gingerbread house a magical twist by adding gems and peppermint as accessories for the house! Create roof shingles with the gems and use vanilla frosting to create the fake snow atop the roof. Don’t forget to top this house off with a cute little chimney!
11. Gingerbread House With A Creeper Vine
This gingerbread house is for those with a steady hand and an affinity for creativity! You will have to delicately decorate your gingerbread house with delicious green icing to play the role of the creeper vine. Use red icing to streak gentle flowers across the creeper vine and create a Christmas wreath with a combination of green and red icing. You can either go for a very elaborate roof pattern or keep it simple to push all the attention to the delicately handcrafted vine.
Even if you’re not in the mood to create a gingerbread man, do go ahead and make a gingerbread house for there is nothing else that brings in such merry Christmas cheer. Do let us know if you’re going to try making these gingerbread treats in the comment section below!
