How To Decorate Christmas Graham Cracker Gingerbread Houses

Have you always wanted to know how those decadent Christmas graham cracker gingerbread houses are decorated? Maybe you have fond memories of decorating holiday gingerbread houses as a child and would now like to share that tradition with your own family. Well, decorating Christmas graham cracker gingerbread houses is a kid-friendly, creative family pastime. Decorating the houses is fun and inexpensive, because often you have all the necessary tools in your own kitchen.

Before you begin to decorate your house, you should consider if it will need to be moved after decoration is complete and if so, place a piece of cardboard or a plate underneath before beginning. To keep a decorative plate or surface clean while decorating, put a piece of wax paper under the house before beginning and gently slide it out after everything has had a chance to set.

The first step to decorating your graham cracker house is to create an icing that you will use to adhere candies and decorations to your house, as well as to create lines for windows, doors, etc. This can be as simple as using a premade cake icing spooned into a squeezable tube available in a rainbow of colors, or mixing up your own with a little powdered sugar and milk.

Second, you’ll want to gather various types of candies to use as accents on your Christmas gingerbread house. An array of hard candies, long tube candies, sprinkles, shiny, and moldable varieties work best. To apply, you simply want to add a generous amount of your icing adhesive to the spot on your gingerbread house where you would like the accent to go, and then press in place, holding for a few seconds to allow the icing adhesive to dry. If you aren’t planning on consuming your gingerbread house, you can use cut up toothpicks to adhere more tricky pieces and use a wider array of decorative pieces like buttons, colored paper, pompoms and pipe cleaners.

When decorating Christmas graham cracker gingerbread houses, you may want to consider a theme such as the North Pole or your favorite cartoon character's home. Or, you may simply want to apply your supplies on a whim and create the funkiest Christmas gingerbread house you can imagine.

To finish off your homemade Christmas graham cracker gingerbread house, you can apply a layer of shaved coconut ‘snow’ or set the scene with figurines or characters. Then take a step back and enjoy your beautiful handiwork!