It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, nuts, etc. It usually contains flour, sugar, egg, and some type of oil, fat, or butter. slice off the top and bottom of a white gumdrop, and press it onto a soft swirl candy use a piece of red gumdrop for a hat and two nonpareils for eyes.A cookie ( American English), or a biscuit ( British English), is a baked or cooked snack or dessert that is typically small, flat and sweet. There's also graham-cracker-and-mini-candy-cane sled and a peppermint-ball snowman. Letters destined for the North Pole are hidden inside a mailbox created with a swirl candy, a piece of a candy cane, and a gumdrop the flag is cut from a stick of gum. The cottage is studded with cinnamon candies, has a sour-belt roof, a heart-shape candy-cane window, and a graham cracker door. To display, place the plate on a tray and cover with shredded coconut snow. Pipe icing onto top edges of house, and adhere roof pieces. If desired, spread icing onto roof pieces and decorate with candy let dry. To make the roof, saw a cracker into two squares.

Remove the spice jar, and adhere other pieces with icing. Repeat to pipe icing onto edges of a square piece, and adhere it to peaked cracker. Place on an upside-down paper plate use a small object, such as a spice jar, to prop it up. Then pipe royal icing onto the bottom and straight edges of a peaked piece. Saw the top corners off of another cracker to create a peaked roof. Use a serrated knife to saw a graham cracker into two squares. Like all of our no-bake cookie cottages, this charming house starts with graham cracker construction. And don't worry if you make a mistake-chances are, you can easily cover it up with some icing or a whimsical decoration. Follow the templates as closely as you can to ensure the house will stand firmly. The following day, use a caramel syrup as 'glue' to assemble the house and finally, when it's set, decorate until your heart's content.Ī few tips: If you're constructing the house from scratch, take your time and try to be as patient as you can between steps. To make the Swedish Gingerbread House that's pictured here, for instance, you can make the dough one day and roll, cut and bake the walls, roof, and other details the next. That may sound daunting, but it's entirely manageable if you break the process into steps and spread them out over the course of a few days. Other houses are made completely from scratch, like the Gingercake House shown here. With wafers, gummy rings, striped gum, gumdrops, lollipops, shredded coconut, and other store-bought goodies, you can easily transform these humble cookies into the cutest little homes, replete with wreaths, landscaping, and other mini features, such as sleds and snowmen.

Some of the houses you'll see ahead are easy enough to assemble in less than an hour, such as graham-cracker cottages that don't even require turning on the oven. Whether you invite friends over to decorate together, or take a solo approach and tap into your inner artist, the result will be a lovely centerpiece (not to mention conversation piece) you can display for the entire holiday season. A quintessential holiday tradition, gingerbread houses are charming and whimsical fantasy lands come to life.

Gingerbread house cookie jar