Easy gingerbread houses

This is the easiest way to make a gingerbread house! Click through for step by step instructions for easy graham cracker houses that won't collapse.

A sturdy gingerbread recipe for making perfect gingerbread houses.

It's very important to use the right icing recipe, in order for the gingerbread houses to stick together. This is the royal icing recipe we use, and it dries as hard as glue!

This post may contain affiliate links, but all opinions are 100% mine! Sometimes I think I am kind of crazy with the things I take on, but then it all works out and I remember, once again, that crazy is okay. Like when I made sixteen gingerbread (okay, graham-cracker) cottages and had fourteen children over to decorate them...at first I thought I'd lost my mind. But then we had such fun that I can hardly wait to do it again next year! To pull this off, I pre-assembled the cottages the day…

This quick and easy gingerbread house icing is made with just 2 ingredients and is a delicious edible glue for the walls of your house!

Here's the easiest way to construct gingerbread houses for the kids this holiday – make them with Honey Maid graham crackers!

Makes about 24 medium size cookies. Popular for holidays and year-round. Makes 1 standard-size gingerbread house, ( about 6-inch tall, 5-inch long, 5.5-inch wide)This recipe can also be used to make delicious edible gingerbread houses. Check notes.

Here's everything you need to bake your own gingerbread houses, including a printable template.

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