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Baking a gingerbread house: how to build your own cookie house

21 October 2026 · DaPeppa

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You don't just whip up a gingerbread house in your spare time. That's exactly the charm of it. Plan for an afternoon together at the kitchen table: kneading the dough, baking the panels, and then building with icing as cement. Does the roof cave in? Laugh it off, glue it back together, and carry on. According to tradition, you build it a few weeks before Christmas and display it as a centerpiece until you can finally eat it at Christmas.

Everything you see below is included in the Gingerbread house baking kit, including a piping bag and building instructions. You provide the butter, water, and decorations.

Recept: Baking a gingerbread house: how to build your own cookie house

  • Voorbereiding 90 min
  • Baktijd 16 min
  • Resultaat 1 cottage

Wat heb je nodig

  • 1 packet of gingerbread mix (300 g, included)
  • 135 g butter
  • 30 ml water for the dough
  • 1 packet of icing sugar (200 g, included)
  • 30 ml water for the icing
  • Sweets, bacon or dried fruit for decorating

Zo maak je het

  1. Knead the cookie mix with 135 g of butter and 30 ml of water until it forms a cohesive dough. Let it rest in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
  2. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees. Roll out the dough to a thickness of approximately 0.5 cm and cut out the pieces using the cutters from the building plan.
  3. Bake the pieces for 16 minutes. Let them cool completely; only then will they be firm enough to build with.
  4. Mix the icing with 30 ml of water in the piping bag and glue the walls and roof together. Let it set for 10 minutes in between.
  5. Decorate the house with the remaining icing and your own candies and decorations.
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