Best gingerbread house recipe
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Laura Kirkland saved to Christmas Cheer
7 · The best Royal Icing recipe for decorating sugar cookies or building gingerbread houses
3 ingredients
Refrigerated
- 2 Egg whites
Baking & Spices
- 3 cups Powdered sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
Erin Sedler saved to Cookies
Gingerbread House Recipe used by some WML Friends for the 2011 Festival
Bonnie Barile saved to Gingerbread Festival
123 · The best way to avoid Gingerbread-Sadness is to start with a strong, quick drying icing. This Gingerbread House Icing is exactly that!
123 · The best way to avoid Gingerbread-Sadness is to start with a strong, quick drying icing. This Gingerbread House Icing is exactly that!
3 ingredients
Baking & Spices
- 3 tbsp Meringue
- 1 lb Powdered sugar
Liquids
- 4 tbsp Water

Elena Bramble saved to Easy Crafts
161 · The best construction gingerbread house recipe. Super strong, great for cutting out intricate templates and does not spread when baking. This recipe is enough to make three gingerbread houses using the gingerbread house template included
15 ingredients
Produce
- 1/4 tsp Ginger
Refrigerated
- 1 Egg, Large
- 2 oz Pasteurized egg whites
Condiments
- 16 oz Molasses
Baking & Spices
- 28 oz Ap flour
- 3/4 tsp Cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp Cloves
- 1/4 tsp Cream of tartar
- 6 oz Granulated sugar
- 1/2 tsp Nutmeg
- 16 oz Powdered sugar
- 3/4 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 7 oz Vegetable shortening
Other
- 5 Crushed jolly ranchers or isomalt (for the windows)

Brigi Starr saved to Gingerbread House
The experts at HGTV.com share a simple recipe for gingerbread dough for constructing gingerbread houses.

Bianka Garcia saved to Yummy Treats
For the past 15 years or so, our family has been making gingerbread houses every Christmas. It is one of our favorite family traditions and leaves our house smelling amazing for weeks afterward.
Carhy saved to Ginger houses
This recipe for a super hold icing works perfectly for decorating your Gingerbread House! We’ve tried regular icings and frosting, others just won’t do.
4 ingredients
Baking & Spices
- 2 tbsp Meringue
- 2 1/2 cups Powdered sugar
Liquids
- 1/4 cup Water
- 1 Water
Linda (2) saved to Gingerbread Houses
These basic tricks will take your gingerbread house — and cookies and truffles galore — to the next level.

Shannon West saved to Tasty
3 · 18 minutes · Makes about 24 medium size cookies. Popular for holidays and year-round. Makes 1 standard-size gingerbread house, ( about 6-inch tall, 5-inch long, 5.5-inch wide)This recipe can also be used to make delicious edible gingerbread houses. Check notes.
14 ingredients
Produce
- 1/4 tsp Ginger
- 2 tsp Lemon
Refrigerated
- 1 Egg
- 2 Eggs, whole
Condiments
- 3 tbsp Honey
Baking & Spices
- 2 3/4 cups All-purpose flour
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp Cinnamon, ground
- 1/4 tsp Cloves
- 1 1/3 g Powdered sugar
- 1 pinch Salt
- 1/2 tsp Star anise, ground
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
Dairy
- 5 tbsp Butter

Haniela's saved to Haniela's Gingerbread Creations