Making Great Gingerbread Houses: Delicious Designs from Cabins to Castles, from Lighthouses to Tree Houses

What's one part baking, one part building, and guaranteed holiday fun? It's gingerbread. With a five-star inn's executive pastry chef as your personal trainer, you'll become a pastry artist, an architect, and the talk of the party when you bake one of these remarkable yet do-able gingerbread houses: Victorian Mansion, Coventry Cottage, Totem Pole Lodge, or lighthouse-keeper's wintry home. For each of the 43 themed projects you have the recipe, pattern or template, and simple instructions. If you've moved to a warm climate, perhaps the Snow-Covered Cottage will provide nostaligic charm, while the Scottish Castle could be adapted to a Disney-like princess castle for a young girl's birthday. Just see how easy it truly is to bake and decorate your first gingerbread house; soon you'll be finding excuses to make more, especially since you can group them to make a village scene!