Chalet gingerbread house

Quite honestly, I am so surprised how much I loved making my first gingerbread house. From construction and decorating, it is such a joyful process!

This guide includes the best gingerbread dough and royal icing recipes, plus printable templates for three house styles—an A-Frame Cabin, Winter Chalet, and Two Story House.

gingerbread house pinned by www.gingerbreadjournal.com

It's the most wonderful time of the year! This is the first time in several years that I haven't had a big book deadline over the holidays. I'm really

A round-up of creative and over-the-top gingerbread houses to inspire your decorating adventure this holiday season.

I created my dream cabin this holiday. This gingerbread a-frame cabin sits on a icing lake with a candy campfire and mini chair and woodpile. To the side, a mini snowman and rosemary tree. The entrance to the pretzel log cabin is adorned with a thyme and candy wreath, and a jelly bean path. Icing snow hangs over the side of the eves and gingersnap shingles.

I wish I could sneak off to the mountains and stay in a cabin like this! Mason and Brooke helped build this little gingerbread cabin...

One of my first inspirations which led me into the world of sweet making was Teresa Layman, author of Gingerbread for All Seasons and Gingerbread: Things to Make and Bake. Stumbling across one of her books