Gingerbread Houses

[ashleywb]

My girls don't really like gingerbread, so like many others, we do the graham cracker houses. I use royal icing to hold them together. I assemble the 4 sides and stick them to each other and down with icing onto an upside down styrofoam plate. The kids decorate the houses and then the two pieces for the roof and I "glue" the roof on last. We've been doing it for about 3 years with cousins & friends and haven't had one break yet. (crossing fingers now!) They do make cute decorations but the kids especially love eating them. Gotta be all edible for us!

[Ginger_79]

A gingerbread house with glue? No way! A house I can't eat is a total deal breaker.

[iScrap]

Originally Posted by Ginger_79

A gingerbread house with glue? No way! A house I can't eat is a total deal breaker.

This!
We use frosting for ours, too. I love those little cookie houses, though. I may try those this weekend!

[NeverendingJen]

glue and frosting. glue for the structure, frosting for the pretties.

[Kenzi]

Frosting! But we never ever eat ours. It's just for looks lol! But then again it's a store bought kit and I'm pretty sure it would be disgusting.

[kscwgirl]

I usually use hot glue. They don't eat it anyways and I'm SO not patient enough for the icing.

[rachaelsscraps]

We usually make them so early in December, that they get all hard and dusty by the time Christmas comes around, so we never eat them. Yuck!
I want to make one totally from scratch but I am too afraid, lol. We buy the kits. So much easier! When we want to eat gingerbread, we make real gingerbread men from scratch so those are totally edible (and sooo good- and not rock hard like the houses are) Anyways, to answer your question, I always use the frosting, though I've always been tempted to use hot glue! lol


A couple weeks ago, my MIL bought a kit that had 5 small houses to make with my 6yo. They spent a couple hours making them and wanted to display them. Then we all went out to dinner, got back and realized the dog knocked the gate down (which kept her in the back room when we're gone) and she ate the entire thing, she even scraped the frosting off the cardboard base! I guess it's not funny that they wasted a couple hours to make a dog treat!

[lovely1m]

Other - affix with frosting and not eat cause its gross and hard. lol

[Milmomma]

I grew up with my mom who was a baker, glue was a big no no. Well first couple years I bought the kit, ewwww! But last year we made mini ones, everyone got to make their own with graham crackers and royal icing. If you make the thick stuff it works just fine I glue the houses together since they are still young. And if you want you can do them on a soda can to help balance the roof till it dries.

[Tracyfish]

We use frosting, but we don't eat it. Last year we did have some houses in our village that didn't stay together and I ended up hot gluing them.