A gingerbread house kit is a boxed set of supplies used to make a gingerbread house, which normally consists of gingerbread pieces for walls and a roof and various candies and icing for decorations and assembly.
Gingerbread house kits can be purchased during the holidays at retailers like grocery stores or large retail chains like Target or Walmart. Craft stores like Michael's and Jo-Ann Fabric also sell gingerbread house kits. They can even be found online at retailers like Amazon.com.
Most gingerbread house kits include everything one would need to put together and decorate a holiday gingerbread house. Additional things you may want to have on hand include extra holiday candy and decorative frosting.
Gingerbread House Kit Types
Gingerbread house kits come in a few varieties. Some come with the gingerbread pieces of the house already baked and just require assembly. Others come with a mix that you make to create the pieces of the house yourself, and then assemble. Others come with just a recipe, and molds or directions for making the pieces yourself. In addition to a kit, to make a gingerbread house you will need something to put it on and extra decorations to make it look the way you want.
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How to Make Gingerbread
Chef Danielle Bernabe demonstrates how to make gingerbread in this Mahalo food tutorial. The gingerbread begins with creamed butter and sugar. Sift dry ingredients before mixing with wet ingredients. Seasonings include ground ginger cinnamon, ground cloves, and ground nutmeg.
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Materials
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Popular kits sold by Wilton
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Price range
$14 - $100
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Since gingerbread houses are seasonal, some kits are not available until November
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Houses sometimes resemble the house from the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale
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Tradition is to wait until New Year's Day to eat
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Usually made for Christmas decoration
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Require assembly
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Can be edible or inedible
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Tools required
Oven, baking sheet, icing, candy decorations, cardboard tray
