With only a week to go, time is running out for making gingerbread: the dough needs to rest over night and the finished biscuits, too, need some time to mellow. If you have been planning to make a gingerbread house, you better get going – we’ll be making ours at the weekend, in case you need some inspiration But for those of you who don’t fancy a big gingerbread house, and who are possibly still short of a few presents, these mini gingerbread houses might be a viable alternative.
Made from my standard gingerbread mix, they are easy to make and don’t take too much time to decorate: simply roll out rather thinly and cut into house shape. The windows are cut, too, using a pointy knife.
Dust wit a little icing sugar and wrap them nicely in small cellophane bags for a tiny winter wonderland. Of you punch a hole into the top you can even use them as decorations for your Christmas tree.
Ginger&Bread 
I love this, it would be perfect for my gift boxes, I live in a historic neighborhood and if I could make them look like a brownstone it would be so cool.
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I’d love to see that!
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What a wonderful gift.
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I have to say, I’m not one for buying presents for the sake of it – but I do bake for the sake of baking! Here I manage to combine the two 😉
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I was just saying to my husband that I don’t feel particularly Christmassy and he suggested baking some gingerbread (pretty certain he has selfish motives here) so this is the perfect inspiration.
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Go for it, Amy! The shere smell of the warm honey and the spices will make you sing Christmas carols before you even notice!
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How absolutely cute. I can’t believe you had the patience to make all those tiny windows. The cookies remind me of so many of the buildings I’ve seen in my travels. 🙂
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You can make them much more delicately, without a lot of patience! You could even model historic buildings – I might give that a try, one day, when the children are away 😉
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i love these mini-houses! honestly, they’d be much easier to eat than a whole gingerbread house, where you’d have to smash it apart and detach the cookie from all the icing gunk. i’m all for faster cookie to mouth time. 🙂
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Well, to be honest, I can eat an entire gingerbread house without even coming up for air …….
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Super cute & fabulous!! LOVE it! 🙂
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Thank you!!
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How fabulous!!
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