Through the decades, royal icing has been the edible glue of choice when it comes to building gingerbread houses. Royal icing dries hard, doesn’t smudge or run, pipes precisely, and is quite sturdy.

Put icing in a piping bag or a ziploc bag with a cut off a corner. Find a piece of cardboard to build the house on and start with putting icing on the board for the front of the house, place the front ...

The holidays are an exciting and busy season -- shopping for gifts, planning holiday parties and meals, and, of course, lots of baking. While leaving cookies out during Christmas is a tradition in ...

Have you ever spent hours crafting an adorable gingerbread house, only to have it completely fall apart the second you tried to move it? While Christmas movies make it seem as though it's incredibly ...

Snowflakes dance in the night sky, red and green Christmas lights twinkle on your tree, and you sit by the fireplace in an ugly Christmas sweater, sipping a warm cup of hot cocoa. But there’s just one ...

Hansel and Gretel weren't the only suckers to fall hard for gingerbread. This is the season when professional bakers and newbie cooks, the young, the old and the in-between start to tackle gingerbread ...

The holiday tradition started in the 1960s, and this year's gingerbread White House honors ''Twas the Night Before Christmas' Kevin Dietsch/Getty The 2023 gingerbread White House replica pays homage ...