Making Gingerbread Houses

Gingerbread houses are the architectural wonder of the baking world with constructions of all shapes and sizes popping up everywhere.

This charming book is a must for cake decorators, craftspeople and children or adults of all ages. Gingerbread is deliciously tasty, fun and very versatile, and this book is bursting with design and decorating ideas to make and build a house out of gingerbread.

With 20 different houses to delight you, Making Gingerbread Houses lets you explore the delicious versatility of gingerbread in the delightful projects, which are easy to make and fun to decorate. Use these gingerbread recipes to get the kids in the kitchen and create some magical memories. It will be sure to delight youngsters and enchant adults alike.

Making Gingerbread Houses features color photography throughout of every finished project, and how-to images of the design stages. It couldn’t be simpler, just follow the step-by-step guides to making and assembling a beautiful gingerbread house complete with snow-capped roof and pretty piping – a great family project. 

Candice Clayton

After starting out in a career in Natural Medicines, it was a fondant-covered Christmas cake recipe that sparked Candice Clayton’s love for all things cake. A community college course, and countless cakes later, the author joined the Cake Decorators’ Guild, started working part time at Cake Decorating Solutions, and started her own professional cake making business, ‘The Fairy Cake Mother’ where she works to produce something beautiful, beyond the expected, that contributes to a great event and makes people happy without stealing the limelight. This is the authors’ first book, with her second upcoming Surprise Cakes and Cupcakes.