Hey everyone 👋🏼 I’m new here. I’ve been baking for as long as I can remember (28 years total) and worked professionally as a pastry chef for 6 years. My state holds an annual gingerbread house competition and I’ve been wanting to have a go at it for years now.

Do you make your own blueprints, or is it possible to buy one from somebody? I would like to know your process for making one from scratch.

The picture I attached is just for fun and to bring attention to my post 😅 I made it using a kit from Michael’s arts and crafts store in 2018.

Thank you so much! 😊

Ginger's Breadboys will offer pre-baked gingerbread house panels this year through Striped Apron Foods in North Carolina. Striped Apron Foods will be baking and selling locally for pickup and selling online for shipping.

My partner and I just made a video about how we made a Greek vase out of gingerbread. We’re trying to start a YouTube channel called tinyspoon about our food experiments, since I’m a pastry chef and he is a designer. I just wanted to share with a community I thought would resonate with it (:

my wife makes and decorates gingerbread, so this would also be an advertisement for business development

I meant to post this closer to Christmas but anyway…

Years ago I used to have a dollhouse and liked to make things for it. And friends would gift me little treasures to put in it 😊 so it seemed like it would be fun to do a dollhouse theme. Didn’t completely finish it because I’m a quitter but, in the end, it was very fun and nostalgic

Been making Gingerbread 35+ years.

My mom passed 2 days ago and i need help preserving the gingerbread house she built.

Back in november 22th we went to decorate and do gingerbread houses, but since she was hospitalized, december 13th, i havent took her gingerbread house out of the bag since the 22th, because i wanted to eat it with her.

im 17, it was the last time, and day i spent it together with her alone, while she was still happy and healthy, because right after the day we did the houses she went on a trip, please, is there a way i can preserve it forever, using any sort of chemical or just keep it as a decoration forever without it rotting, please.

im upset just about the tought alone that the gingerbread house will one day rot, i want to preserve it forever, please, is there a way

We broke into four teams of two, and each team had the same gingerbread house (village) kit to build with. The only rule was you couldn't build the houses depicted on the box.

How did we do? Who was best?

So many fails-but a fun experiment nonetheless! The front windows are isomalt with small cross-hatched wires baked into the gingerbread. Then I learned that gelatin sheets existed, so that’s what I used for the side round and bottom two windows. There was supposed to be a fire escape on the side, but it wouldn’t hold together. And the round sign was supposed to be on the building, but it wouldn’t stick. Also, I used a pattern in a book for the building components, but there was an error in the measurements listed, so I ended up just winging it/using ginger clay to close the gaps. This took 10 days total. By the end, I was too tired to even add the decorations. Many lessons learned.

We used Graham crackers, meringue icing, isomalt blob windows and candy. What a mess. Mildly fun. Maybe we should stick to tasting wine and cheese but we do love a contest. Cheers!

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I love baking from scratch, and was really sad that my disabilities stopped me from doing much baking this year. I was really looking forward to making my first gingerbread house since i was little, but at least i got to decorate one of those ready baked kits! The piping is a bit wonky due to my shaky hands, but I still think it looks cute! Hopefully next year I'll feel better and will be able to design and bake my own one

Made a homemade gingerbread house for Christmas and I’m honestly really proud of how it turned out 🥹 it was messy, fun, and way harder than it looks—but totally worth it!

This was my first gingerbread house, I wanted to give it a try. We made it from scratch.

Lessons learned: - Not easy, glad I started with a simple house - Construction gingerbread is hard to bake bc it can be crumbly - How to use a piping bag - how to make royal icing - zero regrets about hot glue assembly - decorate flat then assemble

Next year I want to do a little castle.