Here are our favorite gingerbread house decorating ideas to help you make your gingerbread house — whether store-bought or homemade — a little extra this year. First, plan your setting.

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For Kelly Wearstler, gingerbread houses are a holiday staple. When conceptualizing her California-inspired gingerbread house last year, she created something that melded the Christmas tradition ...

Building a gingerbread house is typically not an activity that you can start after dinner and expect to wrap before a tiny tot’s bedtime. Depending on what type of kit you’re using, assembly ...

Credit: Courtesy of Kim Kardashian/Instagram. Their 2022 custom-made gingerbread mansion featured a fireplace on the inside and was outfitted with every family member’s name written in icing on ...

The Elf on the Shelf Mini Gingerbread House Kit has adorable dimensional details on each gingerbread cookie piece, but it is a teeny 3 inches wide (compared with the 5.5-inch full-size version ...

Della Frigano, 5, left, and Nora Frigano, 3, from West Islip decorate a gingerbread house at Gingerbread University at The Shoppes in Wading River on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022.

As with other kinds of baked goods, flour, butter and eggs are the foundation of gingerbread, Phipps says. Gingerbread’s sweetness (by way of molasses or brown sugar) is balanced by a blend of ...