How To: Make DIY 3D Gingerbread Christmas Trees!

By: Capreek Dec 23, 2011

created at: 12/21/2011

If you're looking for a fun Christmas Eve day activity the whole family can enjoy, look no further.  Make these 3D gingerbread trees today and have fun decorating them all… Continue Reading

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How To: Make a DIY Geodesic Dome Gingerbread House!

By: Capreek Dec 09, 2011

created at: 12/08/2011

We've shared quite a few architectural gingerbread houses over the years (including a couple modernist ones and even a book titled "The Gingerbread Architect"), so it was only a matter of time before someone pulled out a Buckminster Fuller reference and made a geodesic gingerbread… Continue Reading

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Heartbreaking Gingerbread "Houses"

By: Diy maven Dec 10, 2010

created at: 12/10/2010

These gingerbread houses, which are a collaboration of the Stockholm City Welfare Mission and the Swedish Museum of Architecture, break my heart. The organizations' campaign is an effort to 'explore what it means to be at home' and to prompt those of us lucky enough to have… Continue Reading

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Free Plans to Make Your Own Modern Gingerbread House

By: Capreek Dec 08, 2010

created at: 12/07/2010

Looking to mix things up in the gingerbread house department?  You're in luck!  The fine folks at Hometta are offering up free downloadable plans to create a gingerbread version of their dramatic Wedge HouseContinue Reading

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The Gingerbread Architect

By: Diy maven Nov 26, 2010

This year, take your gingerbread construction to a new level with The Gingerbread Architect. Choose from 12 classic American home designs, including a Cape, brownstone and even a southwest style*. 

Co-written by an architect who loves to bake and a 'house-obsessed pastry chef', the book includes detailed instructions that will take us from blue prints, to manufacture (baking), to construction ('gluing' it together), to exterior… Continue Reading

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Gingerbread Mad Men

By: Chrisjob Dec 17, 2009

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Serious Eats has found the perfect holiday cookie: tasty gingerbread done up in early 1960's flair, perfect to hold you over until Mad Men Season 4 starts in the summer. "Shaped to resemble man-about-town Don Draper, his repressed housewife Betty, and voluptuous secretary Joan, these spicy cookies have a depth of flavor as rich as the depth of these television characters. While this take on gingerbread did the trick, I'm sure any recipe… Continue Reading

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Free Modern Gingerbread House Plans.

By: Chrisjob Dec 15, 2009

Houston, Texas - based architecture firm Hometta are getting into the spirit of giving this year.

They're offering free buliding plans to make your own very contemporary gingerbread home. Their plan is "a small-scale version of the Draft House by Hometta’s own, award-winning HouMinn Practice."


The plans are based on a readymade gingerbread house kit from Whole Foods, so it'll be easy to grab all the goodies you'll need,Continue Reading

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Gingerbread Architecture.

By: Chrisjob Dec 08, 2009

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There's nothing like edible architecture and helping the poor that gets my holiday heart beating.

Creative Room, a Vancouver design collection, is hosting a design contest for eleven progressive architecture firms to help raise money for the Architecture for Humanity charity. The only catch?

The buildings are tabletop-sized and… Continue Reading

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More Gingerbread Prefab.

By: Chrisjob Dec 05, 2008

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From Inhabitat:

"Ever wonder if you could build a green home and eat it too? Well, do we have a solution for you! Green architect, Inhabitat fave, and baker extraordinaire, Michelle Kauffmann, has once again brought us her latest gingerbread prefab, the mkSolaire. And true to form, the appropriately named gingerSolaire comes with a set of instructions for you to bake your own. What better way to promote the wonders of prefab… Continue Reading

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Gingerbread, MCM-Style

By: Lilybee Nov 30, 2008

created on: 11/30/08

The clean lines, the lovely roof, the oval windows. Sigh. I'm moving in.

Yumsugar has a tutorial for this Delicious MCM abode, to make it you'll need

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The Mid-Century Modern Gingerbread House

By: Diy maven Dec 13, 2007

Move over graham cracker cottages; there’s a new architect on the block and she’s a mid-century modern fan. From Red Envelope, this unique twist to that old favorite features a garage and a rock garden. The 18" x 13" x 5 ½" high structure can be personalized and is 100% edible–within 30 days of unwrapping, that is. Comes fully assembled for $78 - $88, or just use the pics as inspiration to build your own. Via The GreenContinue Reading

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Already-Been-Chewed Cookie Cutters

By: Diy maven Nov 19, 2007

Check out these cookie cutters from Perpetual Kid. Note the appropriately ‘sad’ faces. Too funny!! Made of cast aluminum, a set of three will cost you a reasonable $11.99.

POST UPDATE: Forget Perpetual Kid; go to Wee Can Shop where they're only $7.99. They also qualify for free shipping if you spend over a hundred bucks.

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