IKEA gingerbread house

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is bargainous

ooo was admiring lakeland one the other day

how muc is ikeas

A nightmare to build though, I believe...

We've got one in the cupboard ready to build/decorate - first time we've had one.

Tell me, I know it sounds daft but when you build it what do you do with it? Just leave it as a decoration?

Won't my DS cat try and eat it bit by bit?

only £2 30 or somesuch
but is very pared down

blimey that's cheap

lakeland 12.99

yes you haev to buy all guff yourself i htink
havent opened yet

I've got one too, my sis got one last year and said you have to buy everything for it. Im planning on setting it up xmas eve, devouring it xmas morning

oh ignore instructions, do NOT use boiled sugar

use squeezy white icing and prop it in place with mugs etc while it dries

and always buy two so you can cannibalise the other for spares

yes was going to do icing

Not sugar syrup! That's MADNESS! Make up some royal icing (it has dried egg white or somesuch for rock-hard setting) and squeeze it out of an icing bag/plastic bag.

I'm planning to make one this Christmas - I made one several years ago and I think it took me most of a day (strangely enough, I haven't made one again recently) but it was worth it. You can't stop adding bits to it. Mine had a bicycle torch inside with switch-access through a small gingerbread lean-to construction at the back of the house. You could turn it on and the boiled-sweet windows glowed. And there was a christmas cookie in the shape of a christmas tree indoors, too.

God I sound sad!

I ate most of it, eventually. Stale gingerbread is surprisingly nice.

I've got one in the cupboard ready to tackle on Christmas Eve. Was very unconvinced about idea of boiled sugar - icing sounds much better bet. We should all post photos of finished product! Am going to use smarties and dolly mixtures for decoration.

Can I also say that their gingerbread dough is YUM and I am going to buy some more to make tree decorations - we bought some a couple of weeks ago as an experiment and scoffed the lot in an afternoon.

Mamgoblin, are you Nigella? Indoor Christmas tree, lights, windows in a gingerbread house?

Sometimes I feel so very inadequate on this board.

And if mama would care to divulge her recipe for royal icing would be most grateful ....

I bought this last year but got lazy and we used playdoh cutters to make a very festive dinosaur assortment of cookies.

It's lovely mix though.

I just stuck mine together with royal icing ( out of a packet I hasten to add)

Packet mix? My favourite two culinary words...

Lidl one comes with sweeties.
Just add icing, I think (have it stashed away as first week of holidays diversion)

the aldi one is good to make but the gingerbread wasnt that nice.

Im going to have a go of making my own this year, does anybody know of a website with a nice template? If not it will look like a garden shed.

I agree, royal icing is the best.

Do people really eat theirs?
DC pick away at the sweeties, then it gets chucked out along with the xmas tree.

TeamC. We have bought gingerbread house cutters from Ebay in the past. has cutters for walls, roof, door, tree and gingerbread people

I should have read this thread earlier too. Attempted a few weeks back with hot sugar and burnt the house, made a mess in the kitchen, upset DD1 who had visions, like I did, of a Hansel and Gretel house.

Might be breave and buy it again and try with royal icing, which has been sitting in the cubpboard for ages.

Does one eat the thing?

I have never eaten one, but may take a foray into the world of baked real-estate this Christmas...