Gingerbread house

arthur_dent_2

My dd made a packet one of these (Dr oetker I think) for halloween and it was lovely. It held up really well and did not go soft. She made it at Brownies so it can't have been that difficult.

charliefarlie1307

This sounds really good unfortunately we dont have an ikea near us yet. I have seen all your comp wins, where do you enter these? Well done. Never won anything!

dallam20

Both Lidl & Aldi have the house kits in this year for £4.99 ish. I made the Lidl one last year & they are better than Ikeas in my opinion. The gingerbread is less brittle and you get all thesweets & figures. I usually use a tube of white icing to stick it all together and last years was great my girls really enjoyed doing it.

Dawn

rainmac

I bought several of the Ikea gingerbread houses last month to give as presents and the sales assistant in Ikea told me she made 9 for her son's school last year and the best thing to use to stick it all together was a tube of ready made squeezy icing. I've bought 4 to give as presents and 2 for my boys (bought a spare in case we make a mess of the first one or if we don't they can make one each ).

I also bought packs of Ikea gingerbread hearts - 8 biscuits for 55p. I'm going to thread them with red ribbon and ice names/greetings on them and then hang them on the tree and also going to use them as gift tags on some presents.

RustyFlange

cazpumpkin wrote: »

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glad I could help

cazpumpkin

rainmac , im popping into lidl this weekend hopefully , do the gingerbread hearts have holes in them or not for threading ribbon?

im so fed up of baking gingerbread to hang on the tree at xmas that this year ive made a few out of brown felt so i can reuse them year after year, the hardest part was sewing on white ric rac all round the edges as mock icing ,

the ric rac nowadays is as stiff as cardboard and doesnt feel anything like the ric rac from my childhood


i also couldnt find any gingerbread biscuits to hang on the tree in local shops so have bought some of those multi coloured iced biscuit rings you can get in sainsburys in fetching shades of yellow and lilac lol

Glpark01

Thankyou for this post, im going to pop to lidl and aldi later and have a look.

little_lil

Please let me know how you get on at Lidl, i would love to do these with my son and have been looking at the other kits which are just too expensive. I would go and see if they are in my local Lidl but I cant get out today as my son is poorly at home from school.

RoxieW

these were £1 in my ikea this weekend (notts)

cazpumpkin

im standing my gingerbread house on a silver cake board which i will cover with icing , yesterday in poundland they were stocking packets of jellied xmas figures such as father xmas, snowmen, green trees in the sweets section , there were about 8 in a packet for a pound, i thjink they would make good figures to stand in the "garden" glued in place with a bit of icing

also a ordinary packet of ginger biscuits ( the rectangle shaped ones ) would make good fencing all the way round or alternatively use curly wurlys