How to Make a Graham Cracker Gingerbread House

Series Summary

The celebration of Christmas marks one of the most festive holidays of the year. Traditionally a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, Christmas has taken on a myriad of secular customs and activities. The exchange of gifts and presents placed under a Christmas tree by Santa Claus is certain to bring fond memories for many children in Western cultures, and tales of Rudolph leading eight reindeer on the roof are classics. Often Christmas activities incorporate winter activities like sipping hot cocoa or using winter foliage as Christmas decorations.

One holiday favorite for many children and adults alike, is building and decorating a gingerbread house. In this free video series, our expert will show you how to make a gingerbread house without all the work of baking the gingerbread. You will learn how to use graham crackers to make this fun Christmas project. Get tips on how to make homemade frosting and how to use that frosting to put together your graham cracker gingerbread house. You will also learn how to add festive decorations to your gingerbread house to complete the winter feeling of this fun recipe.

Video Transcript

"Today I'm going to show you how to make this quick and easy graham cracker gingerbread house. One of the essential tools you'll need is a pastry bag. Right now, I'm going to show you how to prepare your pastry bag. This is a coupler and it comes in 2 pieces. You have the base and the ring. To get your bag ready, you put the base in and push it up to the tip as far as it will go. Mark with your fingernail the top thread. Back up the base and trim it off. Push the base all the way up to the end and add your ring. This makes it even. We'll use several different tips for the pine trees, for the trimming, and it makes it easy just to change your tips. That is how you prepare your pastry bag. "