Many years ago I decided I wanted to make a gingerbread house from scratch, and it was way too much work. So now I'm now a huge fan of kits; there are so many variations!
I'm kind of obsessed with the kits I've found at Michaels and Joann - a Godiva village*, a Super Mario gingerbread castle*, and more traditional gingerbread homes.
I was bit ambitious in buying four kits; we had five family members on build duty and we only had mental and creative capacity to get through almost two kits in one sitting. Here's the Godiva village kit, which I suppose you can count as five kits in one! The structures were mini (so cute!), but IMO just the right size for social crafting. For this kit, we had to snap apart the walls/roof cookies before assembly.
I have embraced that these decorate-your-own cookie kits never turn out like the picture on the box, which makes the process much more enjoyable. How'd we do? 🙂
Here's the semi-complete Super Mario kit. It seems the larger structure was easier to decorate, but harder to assemble. Call in some support structures like glassware or a steady hand. This kit was extra fun and nostalgic; it came with a decorative cardboard base, and star, coin, Mario, and mushroom candies. It also had a fondant component - a gingerbread house kit first for me.
How do you gingerbread house? Team completely from scratch or Team DIY kit?
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