Making Green Grass for your Gingerbread House


A Gingerbread house does not have to be for the Holidays or just Christmas anymore. We make Gingerbread houses for all occasions and seasons. Did you see our Spring Gingerbread house or our Tree House Gingerbread house? When making and decorating a Gingerbread house, your creation can be just about anything you think up and dream up. You can decorate the Gingerbread house to resembled a summer time ranch, a glorious winter wonderland, and if you create some green “grass” your Gingerbread house will be kicked up to the next level as not everyone creates green “grass” for their Gingerbread houses.  Visit here for details.

Gingerbread Church

Make this beautiful Gingerbread Church complete with steeple and lovely decorations.

Lighting: Cut a hole in the Styrofoam for a light bulb.

Glue your house pieces together with thin consistency royal icing (Thinner icing soaks in and your house lasts longer before it dries out and falls apart. It should last several months.

Windows: Cut windows in your rolled out dough pieces. Add yellow crushed hard butterscotch candies. The candy melts while the gingerbread pieces bake. Continue reading here!

Low Carb MEAT Gingerbread House

Okay, this one is strange! We promised that on Gingerbreadfun.com we would post up anything dealing with Gingerbread so this is no exception. True, it is not a traditional Gingerbread House made out of sweets but, it is a Gingerbread House. This one is made out of meat and lots of it and even some cream cheese for glue. Read more here.

Gingerbread Pac Man Arcade Game Cookies

Aren’t these so cool! If you were alive in the 1980’s then you remember how the video game Pac Man was the most popular! We played Pac Man like crazy at my house and had so much fun trying get Pac Man to eat up all the dots and out-smart the ghosts! Even Mrs. Pac Man was a blast. Well, for a real Blast-from-the-Past arcade style, here are the neatest Pac Man Gingerbread cookies! Mix up a batch of regular Gingerbread Cookie dough and you can use a tulip flower-shaped cookie cutter to make the ghosts. Whip up some colorful royal icing and use espresso beans or chocolate chips for the “eyes” and your set!

Gingerbread Log Cabin House

This is a really fine example of a Gingerbread log cabin House. This cabin has so much details in the intricate scrolls and swirls decorating it along with the simulated “logs”, windows with candles glowing inside, ornamental trim and details. Christmas wreathes and gorgeous green evergreen trees along a snowy path. Visit here for details.

Gingerbread English Brownstone House

This holiday brownstone Gingerbread House is a multistory urban house built rather close to the street and scaled similarly to surrounding houses and of course sheathed in brown stone. This Gingerbread Brownstone is decorated complete with a smoking chimney, holiday wreaths in the windows, jolly snowmen on the sidewalks and of course lots of people and activities. Visit here for more.

Salt Dough Gingerbread House Decorations

Decorating your Gingerbread House is fun and there are a lot of ways to creative with simple things and ingredients around your house. Have you ever used popcorn for making trees and bushes for your Gingerbread House? How about taking some red and green food coloring and tossing the popped corn into it for a red and yellow colored effect? Or, good old fashioned salt dough that can be colored, painted and glued. After mixing the dough, you can roll or cut it into different shapes which, after baking, can be painted with acrylic or poster paints, and further decorated with glitter, glued-on rhinestones or other whatever suits you. Visit here to get the recipe and more ideas.