The best gingerbread house kits to buy for Christmas - from houses to bake from scratch to ready-made
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Gingerbread houses are decorations and desserts all rolled into one, and building them is a great activity for adults and kids alike so it’s a wonderful thing to do as a family.
Baking and building one from scratch can be quite time-consuming, however, and you’ll have to have some pretty advanced baking skills to be able to make it successfully too. That’s why gingerbread kits have become so popular.
We’ve rounded up some of the best kits on the market. Some require you to bake the gingerbread pieces from scratch, while other DIY kits have the pieces ready-made so all you have to do is build, decorate and enjoy.
Even the ones that require you to make your own gingerbread pieces often come with the ready-made cookie mix and the correct moulds or stencils to make all the right pieces, so you can be sure your creation will be perfectly sized and cut correctly.
Thinking about giving food or drink as a gift to a loved one this Christmas? Check out our food and gift guide. There’s also a fantastic range of festive drinks, chocolates and sweet and savoury treats from Marks and Spencer, as well as the must-have snow globe gin and the two new festive liqueurs from Aldi.
This large gingerbread house is big enough for the whole family to enjoy - both in the building process and in the eating.
The kit includes everything needed to easily and build the house; a decorating bag, 7 gingerbread cookie pieces to build one house, sugar powder and sugar sprinkles.
The brick design has been baked into the gingerbread to allow for the easiest possible decoration - meaning even the littlest members of the family can get involved.
There is, of course, always room for creative flair.
The pieces of this gingerbread house don’t come ready-made, you have to bake this one yourself from scratch.
The advantage of that, however, is you can fill your house with the delicious smells of gingerbread while the pieces of your house are baking.
The slight disadvantage is that it will take longer to build your delicious creation, so you need to set aside more time if you use this kit.
It includes all the dry ingredients you need to make the gingerbread, templates to cut the house pieces from, icing mix, piping bag and candy to decorate.
There’s also a step-by-step guide of how to make the house, which are also available online - handy in case they get smudged by messy fingers.
