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The best gingerbread house kits for a magical Christmas
Don't have time to make a gingerbread house from scratch this Christmas? Try these DIY kits.
The festive season is here and it's time to get your home ready for friends and family to celebrate. We've got all the perfect home decor ideas too. From Christmas garlands, decorative wreaths and festive furnishings, it's easy to give your home a seasonal spruce. And it wouldn't be Christmas without some Christmas biscuits, including an adorable (and delicious) gingerbread house to really wow our guests.
Making a gingerbread house from scratch is a classic Christmas activity to do with the family. The whole house is filled with a fragrant aroma of spiced gingerbread (preferably assembled while dotted in matching pyjamas and Christmas music playing in the background). Whether your house stays standing triumphantly at the end is another story (we all know that one person who eats too much of the icing or props).
Sometimes there just isn't enough time in the day and doing all the planning of getting the ingredients together, choosing a design, plus creating a template to cut out and assemble your own gingerbread house seems like a lot of work for something that takes almost no time to eat. That's why we've rounded up the best DIY kits so you have everything you need to make the perfect gingerbread house with minimal effort. Grab your aprons and don't forget your cup of tea - here are our top picks.
If you're looking for other ways to get your home ready for Christmas, take a look at our round-up of how to lay the perfect Christmas dining table, which has all the tips and tricks for setting your scheme, or why not try your hand at our easiest-ever Christmas cake recipe.
You can't go wrong with Biscuiteers and the adorable gingerbread house kit they're offering this year. Coming with pre-baked biscuits so all you need to focus on is the best part - decorating! Get your cup of tea ready and bunker down with some jolly Christmas music in the background while you decorate your own house.
Gingerbread House Kit, Not On the High Street
Follow a beautiful winter wonderland theme with this impressive gingerbread house kit by Honeywell Biscuit Co. The kit includes all the dry ingredients to make the biscuit, as well as a step-by-step recipe card to spend some quality time baking with the kids.
Also, within the kit, are the templates, icing sugar, piping bag and sweets to decorate with.
If gingerbread doesn't quite suit your taste, this Dairy Milk Chocolate House Kit from Cadbury will probably do the trick! When made, the Christmas cottage has a cute little chocolate chimney and is decorated with white chocolate buttons.
Included in the box are Dairy Milk bars, Dairy Milk Winter bar, new Dairy Milk with Gingerbread bar, Flake, white buttons and a handy template. Use melted chocolate or your own icing for construction.
Cadbury Santa's Sleigh Kit is also available on the site.
At under £8 for a two pack, this gingerbread house is a bargain and comes with pre-made biscuits and all the icing and decorations you need for a fun, cosy crafting weekend.
This gingerbread house kit from Lakeland makes a sweet looking fairytale-style house and comes with ready-made pieces of gingerbread biscuits, made from a traditional German recipe.
Also included are fairy tale characters, fruit gums, chocolate buttons, sweets, icing sugar, an icing bag and easy-to-follow instructions.
Create a cozy edible village with this set from Ocado which will surely put a smile on your face. This set comes with prebaked cookies, a colourful mix of Christmas candy and a pre-made batch of icing.
The Little Treats Bakery's gingerbread house kit is a number 1 bestseller on Amazon. The kit comes with everything you need to decorate in your own festive style. The set includes a convenient base to build the house on, as well as the pre-baked gingerbread pieces, a sachet of icing, candy beads, jelly sweets and marshmallows. Full instructions are printed on the box to guide you.
Mel is the Senior Food & Drink Writer for Good Housekeeping UK, covering all the delicious new product launches that come her way, writing about food and drink topics, and curating gift guides for the best foodie products to buy. Alongside that, she can be found developing and creating cocktails for GH and holds her WSET Level 2 in Wine and Spirits. She was part of the Good Housekeeping Institute food testing team for over four years before moving over to the digital side, so knows a thing or two about great food products. You'll find her scouring the supermarket shelves in her spare time for new and exciting ingredients to experiment with in her kitchen.
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