In our house gingerbread is a treat all year round. There’s something about the smell and taste which I find very comforting. I’m always happy to mix up some dough and spend a happy afternoon cutting out shapes, I think gingerbread makes the best after school treat!
Ages ago I discovered Gingerbread Wonderland by Mima Sinclair. I’ve tried a few of the recipes and the light and dark gingerbread doughs are lovely. I used the light gingerbread dough to make Clangers and Iron Golem biscuits, both of which were a success.
The book contains many more ideas than two different doughs. There are 30 magical houses, biscuits and bakes. I think I will really need to up my game with this years’ gingerbread house!
I have one copy of Gingerbread Wonderland to giveaway today. To enter simply answer the question via the Rafflecopter widget below. The giveaway ends on the 30th April and the winners’ name will appear on this post.
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89 Comments
laura banks
April 16, 2016 at 7:26 pmit would be huge with lots of icing
Samantha O'D
April 16, 2016 at 7:29 pmMy girls would like a spooky house
Hayley F
April 16, 2016 at 7:41 pmA big santas grotto x
Tracy K Nixon
April 16, 2016 at 7:45 pmIt would look like the gingerbread house from the story of Hansel and Gretal. It would have an iced roof and lots of candy stuck to the walls!
Geraldine
April 16, 2016 at 7:52 pmMy dream gingerbread house would look like a pretty Swiss chalet deep in winter snow (i.e. yummy icing!) with a biscuit evergreen tree nearby and a logpile (maybe of little chocolate flakes) arranged against one wall. Hmmm, now I’m craving gingerbread!
Spencer Broadley
April 16, 2016 at 9:16 pmA Hansel & Gretel style house
melanie stirling
April 16, 2016 at 10:12 pmIt would look like a traditional Austrian house with icing snow on the roof.
lynn neal
April 17, 2016 at 12:13 amAn Amsterdam Town House as I love these buildings with rows of neat windows and the wonderful shaped roofs!
debbie jackson
April 17, 2016 at 7:42 amMassive with a heated pool and hot tub 🙂 very colourful and a few turret’s
ashleigh allan
April 17, 2016 at 9:24 amIt would be big with lots of sweetie decorations !
Kimberly Gifford
April 17, 2016 at 12:16 pmIt would have lots of candy and icing.
EF
April 17, 2016 at 4:44 pmLove something in the style of Saint Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow including having the domes with colored with different flavored icing.
Dorothee77
April 18, 2016 at 1:02 pmIt would look like Chambord castle!
Sam Goodwin
April 18, 2016 at 4:13 pmBite-sized and sat on the edge of a hot chocolate!
Louise Fairweather
April 19, 2016 at 12:52 pmLike the witches house in Hansel and Gretel
Julie Henderson
April 19, 2016 at 1:45 pmmore like a cottage or a castle
Toria
April 19, 2016 at 1:47 pmI’d like a traditional sort of look, but I’d like to make it a lot larger than standard and add a lot of other sweets to it to perfect the Hansel and Gretel look… candyfloss smoke from the chimney, a garden of edible delights… it would be amazing!
Lucy I
April 19, 2016 at 2:10 pmOne that stays together but doesn’t break your teeth when you eat it. My attempt at one this Christmas was terrible and never got eaten or even taken out of the box!
Heather Haigh
April 19, 2016 at 2:12 pmWhat a fabulous looking book. My dream gingerbread house would be a fairytale castle fit for a princess.
Lisa Rowsell
April 19, 2016 at 2:28 pmSanta’s grotto with lots of brightly coloured decorations.
Mark Palmer
April 19, 2016 at 2:28 pmA fabulous castle with lots of turrets and towers
Ms Suan Watts
April 19, 2016 at 3:30 pmA country cottage with roses around the door
Helen Adams
April 19, 2016 at 3:34 pmA traditional cottage with lots of icing and sweeties
iain maciver
April 19, 2016 at 3:55 pma big castle
Simon tutthill
April 19, 2016 at 4:54 pmIt would be a lovely beach house
Emily Knight
April 19, 2016 at 5:14 pmMine would be rustic and traditional!
Nicole
April 19, 2016 at 5:30 pmIt would be big enough to share and easy to eat some of without it all collapsing straight away!
Suzanne
April 19, 2016 at 5:48 pmA log cabin.
Harline Parkin
April 19, 2016 at 6:00 pmMy dream gingerbread house would be the Taj Mahal
Kristy Brown
April 19, 2016 at 6:24 pmMine would look like a traditional german house with lots of icing and liquorice
S Bufton
April 19, 2016 at 6:32 pmLike a fantasy castle
laura stewart
April 19, 2016 at 6:42 pmit would be big lots of windows and a good size garden 🙂
Caroline H
April 19, 2016 at 6:46 pmI’d love a country church in the snow with a walled graveyard and trees and bushes.
Emma
April 19, 2016 at 6:55 pmLike the castle in Disneyland 🙂
Liane Amos
April 19, 2016 at 7:23 pmA stable with horses in
stephen ashdown
April 19, 2016 at 7:26 pmA spanish villa with little blue iced shutters, Soft chewy sweets on the walls and most important of all a garden with iced flowers, food colouring essential as much as a creative flair. Makes me peckish just thinking about it!
fozia Akhtar
April 19, 2016 at 7:52 pmSomething big and decadent
Jo Carroll
April 19, 2016 at 8:22 pmI’d love to be able to recreate a Gingerbread Windsor Castle to send to the Queen for her 90th birthday…might score an invite to share a bite with a cup of tea? 😉
ADEINNE TONNER
April 19, 2016 at 8:31 pmPink and full of candy on the outside
Jo m welsh
April 19, 2016 at 8:55 pmCovered in sweets and filled with fudge would be a dream gingerbread house
leanne weir
April 19, 2016 at 9:09 pmAnything that is covered in chocolate x
Stephanie Tsang
April 19, 2016 at 9:54 pmMine would look like a pretty palace
Greig spencer
April 20, 2016 at 1:03 amlike hogwarts from harry potter
toni pearson
April 20, 2016 at 5:16 pmwould love to make one that looks like a cuckoo clock for my mum’s birthday.
Frances H
April 20, 2016 at 6:39 pmI can’t pick just one building, so I’d go the whole yule-hog and bake up an entire street.
sarah rees
April 20, 2016 at 7:18 pma little coutry cottage
Jess Powell (Babi a Fi)
April 20, 2016 at 8:41 pmSomething with really intricate icing and a tower! 😀
Steph Triscott
April 20, 2016 at 8:59 pmIt would be like Buckingham Palace but everyone could share it
Solange
April 20, 2016 at 9:05 pmIt would be filled with Christmas red and green buttercream. Topped off with royal icing snow, candy lights, and chocolate filled wafers that will make the roof of the house look like a log cabin.
Hekna
April 20, 2016 at 10:57 pmIt would be a lovely traditional ginger bread house, with frosted window panes and a roof dusted with icing sugar 🙂
Katie Haydock
April 21, 2016 at 5:44 pm100% chocolate themed!! With plenty of glitter xx
Anthony G
April 22, 2016 at 11:30 amA gingerbread version of the house I live in! 🙂
Helen W
April 23, 2016 at 4:21 pmIt would look like a little woodland cottage, like in Hansel and Gretel, covered in sweeties and icing sugar for snow.
claire thorpe
April 23, 2016 at 6:10 pmIt would look like a childrens play house and have lots of smarties all over it!
Beky Austerberry
April 23, 2016 at 7:58 pmlike a haunted spooky house
Susie Wilkinson
April 24, 2016 at 9:59 amI’d love to make one like an old gothic style house
Keith Hunt
April 24, 2016 at 1:03 pmThe addams family house with little ginger bread monsters.
Angie Hoggett
April 26, 2016 at 10:45 amI’d like mine to look like a chocolate box cottage
Rachel Butterworth
April 26, 2016 at 3:41 pmI would love a gingerbread castle like Elsa’s in Frozen ( would have to use a ton of white icing obviously).
Rich Tyler
April 26, 2016 at 5:07 pmLike a huge yummy castle with turrets
sarah fielding
April 26, 2016 at 11:41 pmCovered in lots of yummy sweets!!
Kirsty Hosty
April 27, 2016 at 10:42 amIt would be a traditional old cottage that looks a lot like Hansel and Gretel, covered in sweets and icing
Deborah Mackenzie
April 27, 2016 at 12:29 pmI have seen some amazing gingerbread houses online that have lights and are huge…. I would love to be able to make a mansion with porch, swing and even shutters on the windows.
Juli Savage
April 27, 2016 at 12:49 pmSpooky with ghosts and spiderswebs
carole n
April 27, 2016 at 8:48 pmit would be like a castle fit for a princess
Samantha
April 28, 2016 at 11:37 amA house covered in sweets and coloured icing
Vicky Loveday
April 28, 2016 at 1:22 pmA small sloped roof, chocolate buttons as tiles, marshmallow snow, windows and doors are chocolate slabs. Surrounded by a marzipan forest. Mmm
Kelly Goodall
April 28, 2016 at 1:55 pmJust the one in Hansel and Gretal
Pamela Gossage
April 28, 2016 at 2:33 pmIt would be like a Windmill
Allan Wilson
April 28, 2016 at 4:41 pmThe Seattle space needle (that would be a challenge)
Lauren Old
April 28, 2016 at 4:58 pmIt would be covered in chocolate and sweets!
Sarah Bacchus
April 28, 2016 at 7:27 pmLike a castle
Elspeth MacMillan
April 29, 2016 at 10:10 amA country cottage with lovely icing roses round the door
Jade Hewlett
April 29, 2016 at 11:41 amIt would be small with lots of white icing for snow and chocolate sprinkles to look pretty on the walls
carol boffey
April 29, 2016 at 1:08 pmCreepy with ghosts
Sheri Darby
April 29, 2016 at 6:48 pmIt would be a gingerbread castle covered in sweets and chocolate
Victoria Middleton
April 29, 2016 at 8:59 pmA little shed filled with treats
Kate Knight
April 30, 2016 at 6:49 ama woodland cabin
Laura Harrison
April 30, 2016 at 7:57 amWould be a cottage in the countryside xx
Alison
April 30, 2016 at 8:29 amA cottage in the woods
Jo Hutchinson
April 30, 2016 at 2:55 pmMy dream gingerbread house would be very cutesy and covered in sweets and icing for a wintery feel.
Philip Underwood
April 30, 2016 at 3:02 pmIt would have sweets for windows and doors and other treats!
Helen
April 30, 2016 at 3:54 pmLike a swiss cottage
alison clark
April 30, 2016 at 5:25 pmI was in Harrods a couple of years ago at christmas time and they had this gingerbread grotto that almost spanned half of the counter it was incredible .
Ruth Wollerton
April 30, 2016 at 8:31 pmA star wars battleship
Cat Boo
April 30, 2016 at 9:10 pmA treehouse
Joanna Kasznicki
April 30, 2016 at 11:08 pmMy gingerbread house would be a big castle with tall towers and an icing moat
Lucy Robinson
April 30, 2016 at 11:13 pmGOT TO BE A CASTLE, AND MADE TO LOOK LIKE THE COTTAGE IN HANSEL AND GRETAL. SO FULL OF SWEETS.
Natalie Crossan
April 30, 2016 at 11:32 pmA Hansel & Gretel style house