Gingerbread house

[mogs0]

Not sure whether to put this here or in Food but as it's Christmassy I'll have a go here!!

I have been looking for a kit to make a gingerbread house. I'd like to have a go at making the gingerbread too so have been looking for cutters. I ordered a mini set online which I thought would be great because it'd be small enough for my mindees to make and take home with them. It arrived today and it is tiny and I'd like to find something a bit bigger! Does anyone know where I can get cutters and basic decorating ideas? I'm not very creative in the kitchen and need step-by-step instructions that a 6yr old and 8yr old can follow (as well as a 29yr old!!).

I have an Ikea build and decorate kit as a standby!!

Thanks for the recipe. Will go and buy Baileys tomorrow!!

A solid house is sounding more and more sensible by the minute!

Solid house genius idea! Yum!

Mad from Yorkshire Parkin, with a Bailey's.......

I'm buying the gingerbread house kit from tesco (about £5 I think). No way am I attempting to make it all myself from scratch, i'd make a right mess lol.

Woolies were 'giving away' pretty china gingerbread houses today, the ones that you put a candle into. I bought 8 (for teachers and DD's friends) and they were £1.10 each!

I have toned the architecture of our homemade ones down a lot recently and we now make them triangular (if that makes any sense!), with very steep apex's. It seems to have helped our problem of the roof sliding off!

Ikea do a small gingerbread cottage kit (more of a gingebread garage conversion, really) for £2 in the food add-on bit.