The Candy Cottage

This is our THIRD one of these. I bought this YEARS ago and it has become a beloved tradition with my girls. We buy a can of white frosting and paint the whole thing with it. We lay out the sprinkles and candies, crackers and cereal squares etc. and let our imaginations run wild decorating. It looks for ALL THE WORLD like the real deal when it's done. Nobody knows! I put in on a pice of cardboard covered with tinfoil and we display it proudly all season. This year I decided that since my girls are getting a bit older (four and eight) we will each do our own. I bought two more! We do an Advent calendar where the Elf on the Shelf (we have two) leave them prizes every day. Sometimes they're just a candy cane but sometimes it's a really nice prize. These new gingerbread houses will be one of those really nice prizes. Mommy collects the big, fancy gingerbread houses and I love to set them out at the holidays. The girls know I love to see their gingerbread houses displayed next to my others. We have a great time with this tradition -- it's so easy and so much fun. At the end of the season you simply scrape the stuff off -- it releases surprisingly well. We wash it and pack it away for next year. Cannot wait to have us all do one this year! Daddy can just judge! ;P

I got this house so that we could have a gluten free gingerbread house. It was perfect! Easy to assemble and decorate. It was a little larger than I anticipated, but my kids loved decorating it!

I used to avoid letting my kids make gingerbread houses at all costs. In our house, nobody ever eats the actual gingerbread so I always felt like it was very wasteful. This item is genius, my kids now build several gingerbread houses a year (they love decorating them for different holidays). I have to build the house for them but it snaps together easily and it stays together while they use icing and candies to decorate. Clean up is easy; the kids pick off any candies that they want to keep and put them into a container and I put the house into the kitchen sink and run hot water on it. Once the joints are cleared of icing, I take the pieces apart and scrub with a brush and soap and water. I let the house pieces air dry then pop them back into the box for storage. We loved the Candy Cottage so much that I bought a second one for my neice and nephew!

I travel a from another state to celebrate Christmas with our 5 grandchildren. We decorate gingerbread houses every year. Due to time constraints, I don’t have time to “assemble” the houses when I arrive. I was always having to hope that I could get pre assembled houses when I arrived or find them on Amazon and pray that they weren’t broken when they arrived. (Some were in the past) When I found these WONDERFUL high end plastic gingerbread houses, I was elated!! Not only are they a great size, they are sturdy and now I have them tucked away to be used year after year!!!! You won’t be sorry for purchasing these homes!!

I have given many of these to clients who have children. They are fun at Christmas but also for other holidays. I love that their is a Facebook page with many pictures and ideas on how to decorate it. It can be difficult to put it together but once it is it is great to decorate!

This was so easy to use. The kids loved this, they were able to use their favorite candies and not worry about breaking any gingerbread cookies. They dont care for gingerbread so they just like to eat the candies off of the gingerbread house.

These houses are fun to decorate but the size might be a concern for some people. In addition the house sort of lack the traditional gingerbread house look. It also takes quite a bit of frosting to completely cover the house. On the plus side they are so easy to assemble, clean up and reuse year after year. That means more time for decorating without fussing with unstable houses.

Perfect for the person who cannot make a decent Gingerbread House