How to Make a Gingerbread House and Gingerbread Cookies | Our Ultimate Guide

 Gingerbread baking and decorating is a holiday tradition. This guide collects our best gingerbread recipes, decorating tutorials, and baking tips to help you create perfect gingerbread cookies and gingerbread houses. We'll show you how to make a gingerbread house and how to make gingerbread cookies.

How to Make a Gingerbread House (and other helpful information)

• How to Make a Gingerbread House - recipe, instructions, and kit.
  Make a Christmas Gingerbread House with a simple, easy gingerbread recipe, instructions, and kit - for a perfect, beautiful gingerbread house.
• Royal Icing for Gingerbread Houses
  Royal Icing with meringue powder is the best glue and mortar to hold your gingerbread house together.
  
• Gingerbread House Templates
  Transform your holiday baking into show-stopping masterpieces with professionally created architectural-grade gingerbread templates for structures that grace the National Mall in Washington, DC plus our very own simple, classic, gingerbread house cottage.
  
  • Washington Monument Gingerbread Template
    Gingerbread Template for The Washington Monument. Architectural Quality. Printed in color on 11x17 water-resistant sheets.
    
  • United States Botanic Garden Gingerbread Template
    Gingerbread Template for the United States Botanic Garden. Architectural Quality. Printed in color on 11x17 water-resistant sheets.
    
  • National Museum of the American Indian Gingerbread Template
    Gingerbread Template for the National Museum of the American Indian. Architectural Quality. Printed in color on 11x17 water-resistant sheets.
    
  • National Museum of Natural History Gingerbread Template
    Gingerbread Template for the National Museum of Natural History. Architectural Quality. Printed in color on 11x17 water-resistant sheets.
    
  • National Gallery of Art East Building Gingerbread Template
    Gingerbread Template for the National Gallery of Art East Building. Architectural Quality. Printed in color on 11x17 water-resistant sheets.
    
  • Simple Classic Gingerbread House Cottage
    Download the gingerbread house template and build your gingerbread house. Let your creative juices flow!
    
• Read about our Architectural-grade Gingerbread Templates
  Created in collaboration between a top chef and a skilled landscape architect using advanced 3D modeling software and extensions, the templates ensure precise and easy-to-follow construction for stunning edible structures. 
• Theme Suggestions to Decorate a Gingerbread House
  Tips and Pinterest-worthy theme suggestions and ideas for decorating your gingerbread house this holiday season.
  
• How to Decorate a Gingerbread House - Decorating Ideas
  Inspiration and Ideas on how to decorate your Christmas gingerbread house using baking tools and techniques.
  
• Candy Options for Decorating your Gingerbread House
  What candies to use to decorate your gingerbread house. Ideas and options for decorating your Christmas gingerbread house
  
• Gingerbread House Kits
  A gingerbread house kit simplifies baking and creating a classic Gingerbread House. Start from scratch and do it yourself! Make your gingerbread house from Ginger's Breadboys Gingerbread House Kit.
  
• The Gingerbread House Kit from Ginger's Breadboys
  A true scratch bake gingerbread house kit, complete with mix, recipe, instructions and baking and decorating tools to make a classic gingerbread house for the holidays.
• Gingerbread House for Halloween
  Spooky does it. Easily change holidays and decorate your gingerbread house for Halloween.
  
• Gingerbread House Story
  Why we decorate Gingerbread Cookies and Houses for the Holidays. Where did Gingerbread start? The Story of the Gingerbread House.
• National Mall Gingerbread Project
  Read the blog about our Sweet, Memorable, Gingerbread Collaboration with the Willard InterContinental Hotel in 2024
• Unboxing the Gingerbread Cookie Kit
  The joy of unboxing! See what's inside the Gingerbread House Kit from Ginger's Breadboys in this video.
  
• Why Gingerbread Houses Collapse
  10 Gingerbread House Mistakes (And How to Fix Them). Gingerbread House Troubleshooting | Why Gingerbread Houses Collapse (And How to Prevent It).
• Reserve Ginger's Breadboys Gingerbread House Kit for Holiday 2026
  Expect limited quantities of the Gingerbread House Kit this year. Use the Reserve option to let us know that you want one this year.

How to Make Gingerbread Cookies (and other helpful information)

• Gingerbread Cookie Recipe
  Ginger's Breadboys signature blend gingerbread cookie mix and recipe makes consistently delicious gingerbread man cookies.
  
• Royal Icing Recipes
  Make royal icing to decorate gingerbread man cookies or to hold your gingerbread house together. Start with making royal icing from one of our three Royal Icing recipes.
  
• Gingerbread Cookie Kits
  Helping you make, bake, and decorate delicious gingerbread man cookies for the holidays with a gingerbread baking and decorating kit from Ginger's Breadboys. All gingerbread man cookie kits make about 3 dozen large (5-inch) cookies. Read about how it all started - The First Scratch-Bake Gingerbread Cookie Kit.
  
• Step-by-step Guides | How to Make Gingerbread Cookies
  
  • How to Make Gingerbread Cookies (step-by-step tutorial guide)
    Slideshow tutorial showing how to make the gingerbread cookie dough from Ginger's Breadboys gingerbread cookie mix.
  • How to Bake Gingerbread Cookies (step-by-step tutorial guide)
    Slideshow tutorial showing how to roll out, cut, and bake gingerbread man cookies using Ginger's Breadboys large gingerbread man cookie cutter.
  • How to Make Royal Icing (step-by-step tutorial guide)
    Slideshow tutorial showing how to make royal icing. Our royal icing recipe uses pasteurized egg whites. We also include a recipe for decorator's icing without egg whites and a royal icing with meringue powder for 'gluing' your gingerbread house together.
  • How to Decorate Gingerbread Cookies (step-by-step tutorial guide)
    Slideshow tutorial showing how to work with a pastry bag and decorating tips, how to pipe icing, and how to decorate to the Ginger's Breadboys brand using the decorating bag from the gingerbread cookie kit
• Fun in the Kitchen Baking Gingerbread Cookies
  View the long form version of our Fun in the Kitchen video showing all the happy faces of baking during the holidays.