Ginger bread house cookie kit

[Anonymous]

Please recommend a yummy, colorful, & easy to made gingerbread house cookie kit. Kids are 3 & 5 years old. A lot of the store ones do not taste good.

[Anonymous]

Are you looking for ones where the cookies are pre-baked? Because you won't find them particularly edible. The point is structural integrity, not taste.

[Anonymous]

People eat these?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People eat these?

Well, they *can* be eaten, but taste like crap. You can make them yourself from scratch, and obviously that will be edible, but it's considerably more effort.

[Anonymous]

There are online instructions for graham cracker gingerbread houses.

[Anonymous]

IKEA sells kits

[Anonymous]

They're not supposed to be eaten!!

[Anonymous]

I used to bake them myself - an easy triangular chalet shape.

[Anonymous]

We just let the kids pick the cheap character ones. They picked Paw Patrol and Elf on the Shelf. Nobody eats them even when they taste good so we don’t bother anymore. They’ll eat some candy off of it and then it ends up in the trash.

[Anonymous]

Use a container the right shape, hot glue gun graham crackers to it. Then let the kids use frosting and put candy on to decorate.

[Anonymous]

I don't think people eat the gingerbread houses from kits. That gingerbread is hard a a rock. And the candies are not that great. If you bake your own gingerbread and buy your own candies -- it would be much better!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We just let the kids pick the cheap character ones. They picked Paw Patrol and Elf on the Shelf. Nobody eats them even when they taste good so we don’t bother anymore. They’ll eat some candy off of it and then it ends up in the trash.

I thought the point was building them -- not eating them. DD and I love to make these together.

[Anonymous]

I'd recommend not eating it and using hot glue on it to hold it in place. Then just bake some gingerbread cookies for the kids to eat while they do it.

[Anonymous]

You’re asking the impossible OP. Get a kit that looks easy where you don’t have to make your own icing or anything. The kids can eat the decorations but the gingerbread is never going to be delicious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think people eat the gingerbread houses from kits. That gingerbread is hard a a rock. And the candies are not that great. If you bake your own gingerbread and buy your own candies -- it would be much better!

I make my own and don't really eat them- if you want a structurally sound one then the pieces need to be harder and won't be as yummy