Candy Cottage: a no-tears gingerbread house

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This candy house was a team effort by my sister and my kids.

If you’ve ever bought a gingerbread house kit from Michael’s or Trader Joe’s, you know that these houses can be a risky proposition. I have directed many a four-letter word at broken facades of cookie-based homes as I frantically attempt to use frosting as cement to repair the walls. Sometimes the catastrophe happens during assembly, but often the walls are broken upon opening the box.

When I saw an ad online for Candy Cottage, a reusable plastic structure designed for making decorated holiday houses, I thought, “I’m in.”

My Christmas tree is ~~fake~~ reusable, so why not have a holiday house that I can use year after year? Heather violently disagrees.

Candy Cottage is made of (non-edible) plastic, and the parts snap together.

Provide your own icing and candies. I’m totally digging the cereal shingle look.

Heather says this non-edible structure is useless to her as her family has a tradition of breaking their cookie houses with a hammer and eating them at the end of the season. We don’t eat our gingerbread houses anyway, so I don’t feel her pain.

While our contributor Karen bakes her gingerbread from scratch to build a magnificent themed house every year, that’s not for me. I’ve been using a Candy Cottage on Amazon.

Where do you stand on baking, decorating, and eating gingerbread houses?

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RookieMoms.com co-founder Whitney lives with her husband, son, and daughter in the San Francisco Bay Area where she writes about parenting, crafts, and activities that moms can do with babies in tow. She and Heather also publish 510Families.com, a site for East Bay parents.