Gingerbread houses

sav_606_rebels

I too would like to know if Ikea are stocking these gingerbread houses yet! We always get them every year - such good value and they do look beautiful. I have to travel a little way to my nearest Ikea (Croydon) so dont want a wasted trip!
Thanks for anyone with any info!

Golden_Anemone

Ikea have a PDF pattern and recipe online here though they say they are selling the dough instore as well.

I decided to increase the pattern pieces on a photocopier from A4 to A3 as I thought it would be too small in A4. Making it this weekend.

jackomdj

Golden_Anemone wrote: »

Ikea have a PDF pattern and recipe online here though they say they are selling the dough instore as well.

I decided to increase the pattern pieces on a photocopier from A4 to A3 as I thought it would be too small in A4. Making it this weekend.

Talking from experience if you are making it bigger make sure you have extra support!

We made one for DD's school summer project, she had to do something on a book! We made our own template but I think we made it a bit too big & also a bit thin! However it looked good, tasted good too! We took lots of photo's which we made into a collage along with a wood & walk from their cottage to the witches house. DD won a £10 voucher!!!:T

Cotton_wool_katie

could anyone tell me how long they last out of packaging i have one to make up (from aldi) but i dont want to make it up and then it go all soggy and collapse before christmas ???

Tiara_2

I bought a gingerbread house kit in Asda today for £2. Comes complete with the icing, sweets and ready made gingerbread

nicki_2

I bought one of the Aldi kits a few years back and assembled it with DD. We cheated a little and bought the ready mixed piping icing and used that to stick it together along with cocktail sticks. I think it lasted about 2 weeks, but by that point it was going soft. I think it turned out rather well:


This year I've bough the same kit and the train one as well but will be mixing our own icing & using food colouring so we can have a wider range of colours I've even bought a piping bag with different nozzles so I can do pretty patterns

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

sav_606_rebels wrote: »

I too would like to know if Ikea are stocking these gingerbread houses yet! We always get them every year - such good value and they do look beautiful. I have to travel a little way to my nearest Ikea (Croydon) so dont want a wasted trip!
Thanks for anyone with any info!

Yes, they are there. Pick the ones from the middle of the display, as they are least likely to have met with accidents. (the crates looked a little battered this week)


But no gingerbread hearts! :eek: Noooooooooo!

sethsgran

Heard of a cheat once of adding PVA glue to the icing. Obviously you couldn't eat the house, purely for decoration but a great idea.

sethsgran

Ikea in UK aren't doing the gingerbread hearts this year. Assistant didn't know why but she said for sure there wouldn't be any hearts!

Mikki

I'm rubbish at baking things like this, and just know if I attempted one that it would collapse and I'd have some disappointed kids! So last year we cheated and made cardboard ones!! My kids said it was the best activity they'd done for Christmas and want to make more this year!

I just covered some cereal boxes, small boxes, whatever with brown paper, made a roof, glued it on (and hot melt glue was great as when it dripped it looked like icicles!) then we decorated with stickers of sweets, glittery hearts, small white pompoms, white dimensional paint, glitter, red & white stripy pipecleaners for candy canes etc etc.

OK, you can't eat it, but we bought some gingerbread men and ate them instead! I know my kids probably wouldn't want to dismantle a gingerbread house to eat it anyway!