I’m not sure where my love of gingerbread came from but it’s something I love to be surrounded by, especially at Christmas. The smell is really special to me and my house is often filled with the smell of gingerbread biscuits, my favourite after school snack to bake.
Thankfully my kids have inherited my love of gingerbread and have been helping me ‘test’ products I bought for my Gingerbread Gift Guide. I’m delighted to share with you a review of two gingerbread kits from The Best Bit. Read on for your chance to win the same!
The Best Bit
The Best Bit host amazing gingerbread decorating parties all year round. Their gingerbread houses are baked to order and available via post so you can throw your own party at home! All the ingredients are sourced in Britain where possible (although they’re still looking for British ground ginger!). Each kit contains pieces to assemble, royal icing mix, quality sweets, a piping bag and instructions. That’s not all, the packaging is all recyclable, biodegradable or compostable too.
Gingerbread town houses and cottages
From Classic Gingerbread Houses to the Town House, Cottage and Farm House, The Best Bit have all your gingerbread needs covered. We were kindly gifted a Gingerbread Town House and Cottage to try at home.
Gingerbread decorating is the perfect family activity and we had a lovely afternoon building and decorating our gingerbread kits. Everything was included so all we needed to do was mix up the icing.
The children were excited to have a crafty afternoon and we split into two teams to see who could decorate the best. Everything fitted perfectly into the box which meant they arrived in perfect condition. We read through the instructions and mixed up our icing, placing it in the piping bag. Then it was time to build and decorate.
First we built the Town House and Cottage, leaving the icing to harden for an hour. The instructions were easy to follow and the gingerbread smelled really good. Each kit included a bag of colourful sweets, my daughter was delighted with her mini candy cane.
They are both sweet demons but managed to stop themselves from eating everything. They loved decorating their houses and icing and sweets ended up everywhere.
There were plenty of sweets and the kids went a little crazy with their decorating. Adults would probably go for a more sophisticated icing scheme but my two ended up trying to pile on as many of the sweets as they could, scaffolding everything with more and more icing! They had so much fun and it was impossible to judge the best one underneath all that icing.
You can find out more about The Best Bit and their gorgeous gingerbread parties and kits on their website.
Win a gingerbread Cottage and Town House from The Best Bit
One lucky person can win a gingerbread Cottage and Town House kit from The Best Bit.
To enter my giveaway you must answer the question via the Rafflecopter widget below, there are some bonus entries too. The giveaway is open to those with a UK postal address only and ends on 9th December. The winners name will appear on this post. Good luck!
Don’t forget to check out my other giveaways on my competition page. Good luck!
Definitely has to be gingerbread houses and castles!
The Tower of London
Always like the Hansel & Gretal theme
Oh what a fantastic idea! A gingerbread Shard! It’s just the right shape.
A gingerbread castle
A gingerbread Buckingham Palace!
Highclere house ! Wouldn’t that be something else!
Cinderella’s castle at Disney world
Disney Cinderella Castle
My grandchildren would just love to make these gingerbread houses
Castles for sure!
The Gaudi cathedral in Spain xx
Hogwarts castle
A gingerbread fairytale castle
Gingerbread Disney Castle
has to be a castle
gingerbread castles are amazing x
A gingerbread beach hut
a princess castle 🙂
Hogwarts would be amazing, but almost impossible I think!
I would love to make The Disney Castle in Gingerbread. Unfortunately, I am not talented enough and my boys are at that age where they are far too cool and grown up for Disney
castles 🙂 fingers crossed xx
has to be a castle
I yes a castle! How lovely
I think a castle would be pretty cool
A gingerbread woodland cottage! 🙂
a princess castle thankyou
A gingerbread treehouse would be fab
fairytale castle
I’d like to see the Taj Mahal in gingerbread
it would have to be the amazing Eiffel Tower
The Taj Mahal as so big more Gingerbread to eat!!!!
I love the typical houses or a giant castle!
La Sagrada Familia
A gingerbread Castle Neuschwanstein
Notre Dame cathedral
Gingerbread The Gherkin in London.
Disney building in ginger house is perfect!
A gingerbread castle! How cool would that be?!
A gingerbread dog kennel
I think the Eiffel Tower .
a gingerbread version of Romes colloseum
It would have to be a gingerbread aircraft
ours would be an attempt at Hogwarts
Gingerbread houses here
A gingerbread windmill.
Santa’s house.
A gingerbread lighthouse
a gingerbread station with train
A gingerbread castle
Eiffel Tower
Gingerbread Empire State Building
The traditional gingerbread Christmas house full of white, red and green sweets.
Santa’s grotto
Gingerbread Eiffel Tower
Neuschwanstein Castle the real life Sleeping Beauty Castle
A Gingerbread version of hogwarts would be amazing
I would be happy for my effort to look like a castle
Hampton Court Palace would be amazing!
Buckingham Palace!
very nice prize
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I think a gingerbread Taj Mahal would be great
The Buckingham Palace would be fun to make.
I’d love Cinderella’s Castle as a gingerbread house
Taj Mahal would be epic
blackpool tower would be cool
Edinburgh Castle
I would love a gingerbread house of Buckingham Palace xxx
Love to build the houses of Parliament in gingerbread
Id love to build a big disney castle from gingerbread! It would be amazing and the kids would love it!!
a winter cottage
fairytale castle would be lovely <3
Hogwarts castle for my daughter in law
Disney Cinderella Castle
A cosy gingerbread cottage
Disney castle
I would love to see Hogwarts made out of gingerbread!
St Paul’s Cathedral
A gingerbread castle would be amazing xx
Gingerbread Downton Abbey!
A gingerbread Hogwarts!
A gingerbread palace
Hogwarts castle
Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria xx
A gingerbread Edinburgh castle would be fabulous x
Hogwarts Castle made from gingerbread would be amazing!
A water mill
A Ginerbread Hogwarts!
Disney’s Cinderella Castle!
not sure if it counts as a building but it would have to be stonehenge
Unicorn fairy castle would be great
hogwarts
Eiffel Tower would be good
The leaning tower of gingerbread, covered in marshmallows and chocolate sprinkles!
It would have to be a gingerbread cottage from Hansel and Gretel
A gingerbread cathedral
Anfield
A Frozen themed fairytale castle x
A replica of the frozen tower as you could ice it and really make it look festive including olaf and sven outside.
i love the gingerbread house they have at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort in Orlando – its huge and looks incredible – its really sad that its cancelled this year due to Covid
A shreak castle
A princess castle!
An enchanted forest made of gingerbread
Romania’s Bran Castle would be awesome!
a ginger bread stamford bridge (where chelsea play!)
A princess castle.
A gingerbread St Paul’s Cathedral would be lovely to decorate for Christmas!
I think a gingerbread Disneyland castle would be pretty cool!
Buckingham Palace would be a lovely project for gingerbread making.
A massive castle!
Elsas frozen castle!
A haunted house
A castle
A hot bakery (would smell of ginger obviously)
My daughter would like to see Aurora’s Castle made out of gingerbread house.
Hogwarts for my daughter as shes harry potter mad!
I’ve always wanted to try making one of these, I’d choose a castle.
gingerbread castle 🙂
Gingerbread Colosseum. Are you not entertained?
looks so cute! Wouldn’t it be great to have the shard in gingerbread!
My favourite is a fairytale cottage. It remins me of many stories that I was told as a child.
I’d buid a model of Big Ben
Gingerbread castle would be great!
A gingerbread rollercoaster
A gingerbread Hogwarts!
Hello, I think a gingerbread Buckingham Palace would be great!
I’d try and make a standard house, but will probably make a mess instead
windsor castle xx
I would love to make Gingerbread Hogwarts Castle 🙂
HOGWARTS!
Disney Castle! That would be amazing and combing 2 of my loves! 🥰X
Has to be a gingerbread castle with bridge and some dragons too.
A gingerbread hogwarts
The Shard building!
log cabin
Hogwarts castle
a Gingerbread gothic cathedrdal
A gingerbread Addams Family house 🙂
Gingerbread men of letters bunker (supernatural)
A Swiss chalet
St Paul’s cathedral would look really good
The Eiffel Tower 🗼
Just a massive village with traditional gingerbread house, colourful sweets, candy canes and lots of gingerbread men/women families.
A village of gingerbread houses would be awesome.
A little Christmas looking village
Would love a hog warts castle not that I’d have the skill or talent to do it!
A hogwarts castle made out of gingerbread would be amazing
A gingerbread version of a Ferris wheel!
The giant gingerbread house from Disney world
The Disney Princess Castle would be pretty cool xx
A gingerbread princess castle for my daughter
santas house
Ooh it would have to be the Disney Castle- If i managed that i think that we be one of my greatest achievements!
I would love a Windsor castle one!
The Home Alone house
I think the kids would like to do our house.
I’d love a gingerbread library!
A castle with a window for Rapunzel to look out!
Hogwarts castle made out of gingerbread would be epic and delicious!
The Gaudi cathedral
The Taj Mahal
Hogwarts Castle
Westminster Abbey
It has to be a gingerbread cottage
A whole gingerbread city! along with gingerbread people
A gingerbread Cathedral!!!
I always love mine to look like a Hansel and Gretel house with as many sweets as possible.
a winsor castle building
A gingerbread castle x
A gingerbread version of Buckingham palace! Would be so amazing
Blackpool Tower
I would love to make a castle.
I would love to make a gingerbread Alice in Wonderland scene with all the tiny doors.
My sons mine craft house – its huge so loads of gingerbread! Yum
Oooh it would have to be a castle fit for a princess
would love a fairytale castle
Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia
A Gingerbread village would be amazing!
a gingerbread factory…. as you eat it – it regenerates because of it being made inside …. everlasting! yumm!
I’d love a gingerbread Hampton Court Palace – if only I was good enough!
Cinderella’s castle would be amazing
I’d love to make the church where I’ll be getting married out of gingerbread!
A gingerbread version of The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood in St Peterburg would look great!
A Gingerbread Empire State Building
Wouldnt it be fun if you could have a gingerbread Heroes Square in Hungary it is an absolutely stunning place and would be quite fun if you could do it out of gingerbread.
Disney castle would be cool
oooo a gingerbread taj mahal!
A castle theme would be great
A gingerbread Hogwarts would be amazing.
A gingerbread princess castle
A disney gingerbread castle would be lovely keep the kids quiet for a bit 🙂
I would love to see (or make) a Harry Potter Hogwarts castle! That would be amazing.
Gingerbread tower of London
I’d love to make a whole gingerbread mini village!
A gingerbread hogwarts sounds amazzzzzing
The Empire State Building would be fun 🙂
a huge medieval castle
A gingerbread Effiel Tower would be amazing!
I’d love to do Downton Hall
A gingerbread Santa’s grotto 😊
A Disney castle ☺️
The Sydney Opera House would be amazing!
It would be cool to make a gingerbread Eiffel Tower!!
A gingerbread castle!
A working gingerbread windmill!
For me it has to be Hogwarts!
I had a book of fairy tales as a child, and the illustration of the witch’s cottage in Hansel and Gretel was gorgeous. It was the most fantastical gingerbread cottage covered all over with icing and sweets. It had a garden of flowers made from sweets, and from the chimney came pink candyfloss smoke.
The Tower of London
A fairytale castle and surrounding village would be cool
I love Paris so it would have to be a gingerbread Notre Dame.
A fairytale castle
The Taj Mahal would be awesome
A Castle
Reindeer and sleigh
We normally try and build our own home but for something fantasy I think it would have to be a castle as my daughter loves princesses!
A Gingerbread Eiffel Tower. Tricky.
Elsa’s palace from Frozen would be pretty amazing in gingerbread.
A gingerbread Eiffel Tower would be amazing!