Cookie houses

These creative gingerbread houses will give you all the inspiration you need to create your best build yet!

These buttery, delicious cookies are perfect for decorating and are a tasty treat for parties or gifting. I like adding both lemon extract and zest to give the cookie dough a bright flavor. Decorating the cookies with royal icing made with meringue powder makes a beautiful finish that dries hard and stays intact even if you are sending them to a loved one.See Cardamom Variation in the Notes!

Frosted YYC - Kendra | I love these little gingerbread houses so much! They didn’t last long in our house! | Instagram

Mark Christmas or other occasions with a mouth-watering gingerbread house. Tasty and sugary, our compiled designs and ideas will help you craft the best dessert!

This is my favorite molasses cookie. I use the recipe not only to create little houses for Christmas but also to make bunnies for Easter and stars for the Fourth of July. —Karen Haen, Sturgeon Bay, WI

Follow my easy Gingerbread House recipe and extensive tips to bake, construct and decorate your own festive gingerbread house every Christmas

A new way to create a classic treat with sugar cookie dough made into a sugar cookie house and decorated like traditional gingerbread houses.

How many of you grew up making the original Toll House cookie recipe on the back of the Nestle chocolate chip bag—THE chocolate chip recipe!