Gingerbread House – No Bake Alternatives

Not an architect or contractor? You don’t have to be to make gingerbread houses. Use orange juice and milk cartons and decorate with plain graham crackers, frosting and candies. Shoe boxes and other sturdy boxes are perfect as the structure and by adding a cardboard angled roof and voila, instant house ready to be cemented with a basic white frosting and gingerbread siding.

Graham Crackers –  Milk or juice carton base

Too busy to bake? Ask your local bakery to make you gingerbread “sheets” for walls, roofs and doors. If you feel challenged by this adventure, a local craft stores and mail order catalogues have gingerbread house molds that make it easy to create your building. Don’t forget the fabulous Rice Krispies treat recipe, these easily mold to shapes. Put holiday ginger potpourri in your teakettle on a low burner on your stove and it will fill the house with the aromas of the season.

Gingerbread Flat Sheets from Wilton Cookie Molds

Too busy but want to bake? Use a gingerbread mix from your grocery store.

Wafer Roll Log House

My wafer roll log house was the result of one such non-baking adventure.