Making Gingerbread Houses

What's One Part Baking, One Part Building, and All Parts Holiday Fun? Making gingerbread houses, of course! This book is all you need -- whether you're a beginner or an expert. Professional gingerbread maker Aaron Morgan walks you step-by-step through the process of building a basic gingerbread house, using how-to photos and easy-to-follow instructions. Then you'll feast your eyes on more than 40 award-winning creations, with recipes, techniques, and templates to get you ready for gingerbread building and decorating. Book jacket.

Chef Morgan, who has worked in the pastry arts for nearly 20 years, takes you through the basics of baking a gingerbread house from scratch. Close-up color photographs will make you feel as if he is standing by your side in the kitchen, helping you with each step. Try your hand at 17 charming, delectable houses that can be easily made by a beginner but won't look like it. Book jacket.

Gingerbread houses are the architectural wonder of the baking world with constructions of all shapes and sizes popping up everywhere. This charming book is a must for cake decorators, craftspeople and children or adults of all ages. Gingerbread is deliciously tasty, fun and very versatile, and this book is bursting with design and decorating ideas to make and build a house out of gingerbread. With 20 different houses to delight you, Making Gingerbread Houses lets you explore the delicious versatility of gingerbread in the delightful projects, which are easy to make and fun to decorate. Use these gingerbread recipes to get the kids in the kitchen and create some magical memories. It will be sure to delight youngsters and enchant adults alike. Making Gingerbread Houses features color photography throughout of every finished project, and how-to images of the design stages. It couldn't be simpler, just follow the step-by-step guides to making and assembling a beautiful gingerbread house complete with snow-capped roof and pretty piping - a great family project.

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Fast and fun no-bake gingerbread houses that are easy to create! Building a fabulous gingerbread house is quick and easy using the patterns and ideas found in Easy Gingerbread Houses. There’s no need for the messy and time-consuming tasks of mixing dough, rolling it out, baking it, and waiting for it to harden. All of the houses in this book are made using graham crackers, cookies, cereal, ice cream cones, frostings, and candy treats. For a fun family activity, create a Sweetheart Cottage, a Cozy Cabin, a Big Red Barn, a Blue Dollhouse, a Mermaid Palace, Santa’s Castle, or even a Tiki Hut. Lisa Anderson is an editor, writer, baker, and stand-up comedienne whose keen sense of humor keeps her thinking outside the box. She has authored two books, and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Gingerbread houses are the architectural wonder of the baking world, and every year around the holidays, constructions of all shapes and sizes spring up everywhere. Some have Tootsie Roll mailboxes, shredded-wheat roofs, and gumdrop bells, while others are covered with snow and icicles and have balconies, garlands, and brightly glowing candy glass. But no matter how elaborate a house is, one doesn't have to be an expert baker (or architect) to build one.Gingerbread Houses: A Complete Guide To Baking And Decoratingis for ginger-bread bakers who want to build their first or their fiftieth house. With easy-to-follow instructions, it shows beginners all the basic techniques, including how to assemble the walls and roof without breaking the gingerbread. But it also shows more advanced bakers how to illuminate their house, use a glue gun, and even give last year's house a face-lift. The whimsical, two-color drawings and patterns are a wealth of new ideas for doors, windows, wreaths, bells, mailboxes, lampposts, fences, and trees. And for those who feel the entrepreneurial urge, there's even a section on marketing, packaging, pricing, and selling gingerbread houses. With wit and humor, Christa Currie, champion gingerbread baker, makes building gingerbread houses fun for the entire family.Gingerbread Housesis the perfect stocking stuffer for the baker or architect on your Christmas list.

Families around the globe have long been making gingerbread houses together for holiday celebrations--now your can too! Whether you are a first-time builder or a serious gingerbread architect, you will turn to this complete resource guide over and over for recipes, building tips, and decorating ideas. You and your family can transform ordinary food items like pretzels, coconut, and bullion cubes into fences, snow, and chimneys--and learn how to enter a contest, throw a gingerbread party, or teach a class.

No more complex store-bought kits. No more lopsided barn that was supposed to be Prince Charming's castle. Just fun with the family while constructing fanciful gingerbread houses with graham crackers, frosting, cookies, and candies of all varieties. With graham cracker building blocks and straightforward instructions, families can create everything from Fire House to Tiki Hut and Swiss Chalet to Mermaid Palace.