Gingerbread Fun

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For a fast, simple, and stunning Gingerbread House all you need is a pre-baked store bought kit, silver dragees, white icing, shredded coconut, and some sparkly white sanding sugar. Place the finished houe on a gorgeous silver tray to be admired through the season.

Did you know using hard-boiled lollipops, isomalt and gelatin, can be turned into beautiful windows for your Gingerbread house that give off that ‘glow” of a warm fire inside the cozy house. Visit HERE for details to make this Gingerbread House

Gingerbread isn’t ‘just’ for houses and little people! Our favorite cookie can be cut to make just about anything. And today, we bring you a great step-by-step set of instruction to build a whole train.

The instructions on the site include the parts/shapes you need to cut out, how to frosting them together and what the many train parts may look like. Even downloadable PDF templates to really make the shape cutting easy! You can customize as you like… just add a couple little highlights using bits of candy and colored frosting and a caboose could become a Santa Caboose or a engine is run by little figures of all of the family. It’s simple projects like these that lets everyone create Gingerbread Holiday fun then add their personal touches.

There is still some time before Halloween is here next week to get your goodies together and make a ‘mini’ haunted Halloween Gingerbread house.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

INGREDIENTS:

12 cinnamon graham cracker rectangles

1 cup Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy chocolate frosting (from 1-lb container)

1/2 cup roasted salted pumpkin seeds

Black string licorice, cut into pieces

10 shortbread cookie crisps

1/4 cup Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy white frosting (from 1-lb container)

1/4 teaspoon Betty Crocker® orange gel food color

1 fudge-covered graham cracker

1 orange jelly bean

3 pieces candy corn

1 cup graham cracker crumbs

1/2 cup chocolate graham cracker crumbs

Candy rocks

8 chocolate cookie sticks and creme, broken

Candy pumpkins

Bone-shaped candy sprinkles

Instructions HERE

Years ago, we found a site that let us have fun building Gingerbread Houses online. The site has gotten a bit outdated, which has resulted in email from our many visitors asking about new options. Luckily, this week we found another page that is helping us put together all kinds of ideas for new Gingerbread houses.

Starting with a clean house with a bit of frosting, just click and drag one of the many candy choices from the lower part of the screen up the house. The candies can be moved around as you like, they aren’t stuck where they are placed originally. When the virtual Gingerbread House is they way you like it, share with others by taking a screen shot or printing the page. Jump over to the Home Sweet Home page to start pasting candies onto your Gingerbread house.

Hi everyone, just wanted to let you all know that the pre-baked Costco Gingerbread House kits are available in your favorite Costco store for $9.99 and you know they won’t last long. Hurry, get your kits while they last.

This really is taking Gingerbread to another level! Vintage cameras are all the rage these days and here is a “How To” project to make a Gingerbread Camera. Will your camera look as good as it tastes? Please send us your finished pics, we would love to feature them on Gingerbreadfun.com

The season for Gingerbread creations and fun will soon be upon us and, it is never too early to begin so, here is a FUN one! A VW Gingerbread Van. Yes, it is pretty neat indeed. You can read about here – VW Gingerbread Camper

Nail polish creativity has never been so hot! With all the trends these days we thought you would Gingerbread lovers out there would really appreciate these weet nail looks!!

Came across these awesome Gingerbread cookies doen up in modern ways to match the lifestyles of today. You have got to check out these Gingerbread cookies made by Biscuiteers