Would you love some of the best gingerbread houses for Christmas this year?
We believe that the making of gingerbread houses is an art, so the art of making a gingerbread house is a very popular one in homes, especially for the festive holiday that is Christmas.
The making of a gingerbread house is one of the best ways to get your kids involved in cooking.
It serves as a fun activity that they would really enjoy just as much as you would enjoy it as well, before the time to show it off and serve it comes.
The smell of gingerbread during Christmas is almost priceless, so it’s pretty much a must-have in anyhow during the holiday season.
And to even make it easier, if you do not have the time to make the gingerbread house yourself, stores near you sell gingerbread cookies and a gingerbread kit, which the box has all the supplies you would need.
Anyway, in this post, we will give you a list of gingerbread houses you can recreate for the coming holiday.
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Christmas Gingerbread House Ideas
1. Santa Gingerbread House
Decorating a gingerbread house is a popular Christmas tradition, and this is a classic Santa gingerbread house.
This gingerbread house is decorated with gumdrops, candy canes, and icing; it also features snowmen and Santa Claus figurines.
2. Candy Came Gingerbread House
A Christmas celebration is never truly complete if a gingerbread house isn’t made.
This house features icing, gumdrops, snowflake cookies, and candy canes, which are styled all around the house.
It’s a classic choice for the festive period.
3. Felt Peppermint Candy Gingerbread House
The creation of the gingerbread house dates back as far as the 1600s, which makes it a tradition that we can’t do without.
Here’s another gingerbread house that’s made up of candies and sweets of different kinds and held together with icing; however, felt peppermint candies steal the show.
4. M&M’s Gingerbread House
A colorful and well-decorated gingerbread house.
This house features the regular gingerbread, icing, candy canes, and lots of M&M's chocolate candy.
There are also gummy bears and a snowman sitting just outside the house, and candy lights inside the house.
5. Jelly Candy Gingerbread House
With the brothers Grimm fairy tale “Hansel & Gretel" in the early 1800s, the gingerbread house became way more popular, and it’s been her ever since.
We have a house made of gingerbread, candy canes, lollipops, lots of icing, and jelly candy taking the spotlight in this particular design.
6. Graham Crackers Gingerbread House
One common thing about gingerbread houses is that no matter the type of design it has, once done right, guests won’t be able to get enough of it.
This house features graham crackers and white frosting as the roof, pretzel sticks at the front, with red and white candies, little jelly candies, soft full pretzels, and little herbs.
7. Snoopy's Gingerbread House
Now this is how you make a unique gingerbread house.
The house is designed to look like Snoopy’s dog house from the comic strip called “Peanuts".
The red house is decorated with white icing for snow, with peppermint candies and colorful candy lights, and a cookie shaped like Snoopy lies on the roof.
8. Red & Green Candy Gingerbread House
Another classic gingerbread house design with brown and white being the main colors of this design.
Royal icing is used to glue the gingerbread together.
It forms a net-like pattern on the roof with red and green candies styling it, and jelly tree candies decorate the front of the house.
9. Colorful Life Savers Candy Gingerbread House
A rainbow-colored gingerbread house that features a rainbow design in front, and different colored life saver candies decorate the room and flow of the house.
Icing is used to glue the house together, and also to create heavy snow on the roof and floor surrounding the house.
10. Chocolate Bars Gingerbread House
An alternative to a regular gingerbread house, and a creative one at that.
The whole house is made from chocolate bars, and the roof is made of layered, segmented chocolate bars.
The body consists of brown and white chocolate; the body is designed with gumdrops, and candy buttons are scattered around the base.
11. Ice Cream Castle Gingerbread House
It is really beautiful how this gingerbread house adds a nice twist to a classic gingerbread design by turning it into a castle.
The house features three ice cream cones to make the towers of the castle, while M&M's decorate one part, and two ice-cream stands stand in front of the house with green icing and a colorful candies pathway leads to the front of the house.
12. Gingerbread Men Gingerbread House
The gingerbread men have come to claim what’s rightfully theirs, the gingerbread house.
The house features a roof made of green, white, and red candies, with pretzel sticks on one side of the base, with gingerbread men in front of the house, while straight candy canes form a path towards the house's front door.
13. Sweetie Gingerbread House
This gingerbread house incorporates lots of colorful candies nicely, which creates a bright and colorful design.
Different colored candies decorate the front of the house and the pathway in front, and the side of the house.
The perfect gingerbread house for candy lovers.
14. Pop-Tarts Gingerbread House
Delicious house that makes use of Pop-Tarts nicely.
The house structure is made from Pop-Tarts that serve as the roof and walls.
White icing, sprinkles, and different colored candies decorate the house.
The Pop-Tarts make building the house easier than using regular gingerbread.
15. Donut Shop Gingerbread House
This is a beautiful twist on a classic gingerbread house.
This one is designed to look like a donut shop.
It is made of gingerbread cookies and decorated with icing, candy canes, and other types of candies.
A small display of little donuts is visible close to the entrance, while a large sign at the top reads “DONUTS".
16. Rosemary Gingerbread House
Adding rosemary herbs to a gingerbread house setup is one way to make it stand out.
The house features crackers as the roof and lots of white icing around the entire house to mimic snow, with rosemary herbs decorating the front of the roof and above the front door.
17. Gingerbread Tree House
Now this is what we call being creative.
The house is made from cookies and pretzel sticks, with candy and white icing on the roof for snow.
The ladder is made up of pretzel sticks, and chocolate cereal squares with green leaf-like candies on the branches make up the tree trunk.
18. Tropical Gingerbread House
Another really creative gingerbread house design, the house is designed to look like a tropical house.
It’s made up of gingerbread and pretzel sticks with green candy for the roof.
The scene is decorated to look like it’s sandy with a blue sandy ocean and a palm tree made from a wafer roll and green candy.
19. Up Gingerbread House
This gingerbread house is designed to look like the house from the Disney Pixar movie titled “UP".
The house is typically made from cookie dough, icing, and candies, while colorful candies make up the balloons; this house from the “UP" movie is typically known for being the balloon house.
20. Church Gingerbread House
Now, making a gingerbread house in the style of a church is actually a pretty neat idea for a Christmas celebration.
This house has a chocolate snow-covered roof made from icing, has stained-glass-style windows, with the front doors open, and the miniature trees are covered with snow made from icing.
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Conclusion
The origin of baking gingerbread goes way back as far as the 1600s, from bakers in Germany, so it has been a tradition that has been around for as long as anyone alive now can remember.
Back then, the styles for gingerbread houses were limited, but with the different designs and styles created over the years, there are just so many creative gingerbread houses out there, so there’s no shortage of what can be created.
Now grab your Christmas cookies, pretzel sticks, royal icing, and browse the list above for some amazing and eye-catching gingerbread houses that we guarantee would make your Christmas celebration this year as amazing as it deserves to be.
