If you have aspirations to one day step into the Bake Off tent, then this could be the gingerbread house kit for you. If you're just up for a bit of lighthearted Christmas fun, though, we'd give it a miss. Our verdict:It certainly looks impressive on the box, but we struggled to create anything half as nice.

As soon as the icing hits the gingerbread it'll start to dry and set, so you'll get into trouble if you change your mind about your decoration halfway through. 2) Look up designs if you need inspiration However, we thought there wasn't quite enough icing to really go to town on the decoration. We'd recommend keeping the pre-made icing for another baking day and making a big batch of your own to ensure you don't run out.

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Similar to the Biscuiteers gingerbread house kit, the house pieces are blank. You're probably best off planning how you want to decorate the house before starting out. It's worth having a look online at a few gingerbread house design templates if you're struggling for ideas. The festive season is here and it's time to get your home ready for friends and family to celebrate. We've got all the perfect home decor ideas too. From Christmas garlands, decorative wreaths and festive furnishings, it's easy to give your home a seasonal spruce. And it wouldn't be Christmas without some Christmas biscuits, including an adorable (and delicious) gingerbread house to really wow our guests.

The experience of decorating the house was intricate and took us a while, but we found it rewarding and were very pleased with the result. There's a brilliant variety of decorations included that come in all colours, shapes and sizes. Once the house was up we were pleased with its appearance, and we really had to fight the urge to chomp on the chimney, which is a Flake. It saves you a task if your gingerbread house kit comes with icing included, but you'll need to decide if the amount that's included is enough for what you plan to do.Our verdict: We think this delightful gingerbread house kit is sure to putyou in a funChristmassy mood.It was by some way our favourite overall, especially in terms of appearance.

As a team of chocolate lovers we thought this kit might steer us away from gingerbread forever, but that wasn't quite the case. There are grooves baked into the roof and walls of this house, which are handy guidelines for easy decoration.

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However, as you start to run low the tube takes a lot of squeezing. Our hands were cramping up towards the end. It looks ornate and doesn't appear simplistic at all, with lovely textures and patterns on the gingerbread pieces and colourful, varied decorations included. It simply wouldn’t be Christmas without the taste of mouth-watering chocolate to sweeten the season. Looking for the perfect chocolate Christmas gift for your favourite niece? Fussy colleague? Sweet-toothed mum? No matter who you’re shopping for this year, our festive gifts are guaranteed to hit the spot. They've used it as the basis for creating a special Cadbury Dairy Milk Christmas Cottage Kit °. That's right, no fiddling around with fragile sheets of gingerbread this year - instead, the Christmas Cottage is built out of chunky slabs of chocolate!

Our verdict:Although it wasn't the most straightforward to build compared to the other gingerbread house kits we tested, we loved how it looked and it was definitely the tastiest. In the box you'll find a selection of Cadbury chocolate bars. We were surprised that none of the chocolate came pre-cut into shape, which means you'll need to cut several pieces out of the house yourself using the whole bars. We thought even professional bakers might get fed up with building this gingerbread house, though. You're instructed to hold the house pieces together in place for 15 minutes on several occasions, which we think takes some of the fun out of the activity. Consider buying a gingerbread house kit with a base if you want a speedier, stress-free building experience.This was the only gingerbread house kit we tasted that we thought was truly delicious. It's crispy, full of ginger flavour, and tasted most like a classic gingerbread biscuit of all the kits we tasted. Contains: Gingerbread house pieces, 2x gingerbread biscuits, pre-made icing, 3x bags of sweets, plastic base. Unwrap delicious chocolate Christmas hampers bursting with all their favourite Cadbury goodies, from the addictive taste of Crunchie to silky smooth Dairy Milk, decadent Bournville and sweet Cadbury Fudge. Explore chocolate hampers paired with top tipples and select from wine, prosecco and beer options to suit every palette — the perfect Christmas prezzie, if you ask us.