Gingerbread House

[Kylie]

Hello everyone,

Everywhere I go these days I see the cutest kits for making gingerbread houses, and I want to make one too! Does anyone have any good recipes for gingerbread cookies that would hold up to building and also, does anyone know of any molds or pans that are in the house shape? It may not be as easy as the kit, but I am determined to make a gluten free gingerbread house this year! Thanks for all your help.

[lonewolf]

We make a gluten-free, DF and SF gingerbread house every year. I follow the recipe for gingerbread men in the Betty Crocker cookbook and simply substitute gluten-free flour. If you don't have Betty Crocker I'll post the recipe.

I draw out on paper what shape we want - usually 4 simple walls (two of them "house" shaped), and two simple roof pieces. Then I cut out the dough into the right shapes and bake it. My big trick is that I cut a cereal box into the same shaped pieces and use icing (again, from Betty Crocker) to glue the cool gingerbread to the cardboard pieces. Then, using lots of icing and occasionally a toothpick or two, I put the house together and we decorate it with all kinds of gluten-free candy. We've been doing this for about 10 years and it always turns out great. It tastes delicious when we eat it a week or so later too!

[purple]

If you want to make individual mini houses...just frost the goodies to a washed school-lunch sized milk carton...great for kids to do on their own. You can wrap plastic around it and tie it on your tree if its not too heavy or and the stairway rails, etc.

[elonwy]

The sensitive Baker www.thesensetivebaker.com is making kits this year (you may need to call them to get it) and so are these people: Open Original Shared Link who you definitely have to call to order it (its not on their web site, but they do have it). I have eaten other things at the sensetive baker and they have good stuff, the cakeartsupplies people are working with Pamela's products. I have an order for two houses from cakeartsupplies, but they are not shipping them yet. They do not provide the candies though as they cannot garuntee all their candies are gluten-free so would rather not risk it (which I appreciate).

Being rather overworked I appreciate the premade stuff

[CaraLouise]

You could also use Kinnikinnick's graham crackers for the base and just frost them to form a gingerbread house. Haven't tried it, but it should work!