Gingerbread House Cake Decorating Set
A gingerbread house with no walls to collapse and no royal icing glue disasters. Just two rectangle cakes, a quick roof trim and a whole sheet of Christmas cut outs.
The Gingerbread House Cake Decorating Set comes with heaps of edible paper pieces: windows, doors, Christmas trees, stockings, candy canes, presents, a gingerbread girl, a snowman, Santa, a reindeer and more. Use your favourites on the house and pop the rest on cupcakes.
Please note: cake mix, icing and lollies are not included.
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What's in the Gingerbread House Cake Decorating Set?
- A big sheet of edible paper designs: windows, doors, Christmas trees, stockings, candy canes, presents, a gingerbread girl, a snowman, Santa, a reindeer and more.
- Step-by-step Gingerbread House Cake guide.
Every piece is edible, and there are plenty to spare. Any you don't use on the house make great cupcake toppers for school friends.
What do I need to make the Gingerbread House Cake?
Shape Tins
- 1 x Rectangle Shape Tin, baked twice
Ingredients
- 3 packets of cake mix (approx. 30 to 36 serves, depending on how generous your slices are)
- Icing
- White or pink marshmallows (roof tiles)
- Musk sticks (roof ridge)
- 2 caramel allsorts or cubes (chimney)
- Desiccated coconut (snow)
- White mini choc chips and sprinkles
- Mini candy canes
Gingerbread House Cake recipe and guide
Bake
Two rectangle cakes from three packet mixes, both baked in your Rectangle tin.
Build
One cake is the house and the other is trimmed into the roof. The guide shows you exactly where to cut.
Decorate
Ice it, press on the edible pieces, then add the roof tiles, chimney and a coconut snowfall.
Decorating your Gingerbread House Cake
Let the kids loose
Hand over the cut outs and lollies and let them decorate. It's a lovely Christmas Eve activity. Or slice mini gingerbread houses from the one cake and have everyone decorate their own! Create your gingerbread (cake) village!
Pick your house colour
A little cocoa in the icing gives you a gingerbread brown. White makes a snowy cottage.
Hot day tip
Aussie Christmas is warm. Keep the finished cake somewhere cool until dessert time.
Timing
Bake the day before, then build and decorate on the day.
This one's up to you. Colour your buttercream however you like.
Swipe to browse our Colour Mill colours
Want the full step-by-step guide?
Buy this set and unlock the full Gingerbread House guide, with every step to bake, build and decorate your cake.
- How to bake
- How to build
- How to decorate
Your unlock code is emailed as soon as you order, and it comes in your delivery too.
An Easy Gingerbread House Cake You Can Make at Home
Simple cake shapes, finishing details and a little imagination.
You don't need a gingerbread house-shaped tin or hours of sculpting a cake from scratch. Shape Tins uses simple cake shapes that come together to create the Gingerbread House Cake, and the Decorating Set adds the details that give it character.
Tins this cake uses
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Cylinder
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Cube
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Dome
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Rectangle (used in this cake)
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Round + Ring
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Bake
Bake your cake in the Rectangle Shape Tin, ready to build your gingerbread house.
- 2
Build
Follow the step-by-step guide to bring your cake shapes together.
- 3
Decorate
Add your icing, then bring your gingerbread house to life with your Decorating Set.
- 4
Celebrate
Bring out your finished Gingerbread House Cake, take plenty of photos and enjoy sharing it at the party.
Why Make Your Gingerbread House Cake with Shape Tins?
A biscuit gingerbread kit means baking walls, mixing royal icing and holding everything together while it sets (and hoping it does). This one is cake all the way through, built from one Rectangle tin, and about $35 to $45 with ingredients once you own the tin. The same tin makes our Bus, Fire Engine and Butter Squishy cakes all year round.
One Set of Shape Tins. So Many Cakes to Make.
Your Gingerbread House Cake might be the first cake you make with Shape Tins, but it doesn't have to be the last!
Instead of buying a different novelty cake tin for every birthday, Shape Tins offers reusable baking shapes you can combine in different ways to create many cake designs. With the Complete Set, you'll have all five Shape Tins to explore everything from 3D animal and character cakes to number cakes and other birthday creations.
Buy the tins once. Keep creating with them again and again.
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Gingerbread House Cake FAQs
Is it easier than a real gingerbread house?
Much easier. There are no biscuit walls to bake or glue, just two rectangle cakes and one simple roof trim.
Do I need two Rectangle tins?
No. Bake one cake, cool it for 10 to 15 minutes, turn it out, wash and grease the tin, then bake the second.
How many does it serve?
Approx. 30 to 36 serves from three packet mixes, depending on how generous your slices are.
What do I do with the spare pieces?
Pop them on cupcakes. There are plenty for a batch for school friends.
Can the kids help?
Yes. Pressing on the pieces and adding the lollies is the best job in the house.
