My 8 year old daughter and I made this Halloween house together. :) Our spooky gingerbread haunted house is surrounded by 13 fresh "graves", and topped with hand piped spiderweb detailing on the main roof and a skeleton's rib cage on the turret roof. The windows are crushed butterscotch candy and the monster hands, ghosts and sprinkles are sugar decorations from Wilton. Purple and white piping made with royal icing. We had to laugh after we assembled the house and realized that the design lacked one little detail, a door to actually get into the house. We figured the only way to get into the house would be through the graves outside, hence the title of our entry "Folks are dying to get in!". Happy Halloween!

Count Sugular, this witchy wife and their baby in a coffin are on holiday. They are occupying a caravan which is parked near an abandoned windmill. Their pet black cat and sea monster are with them. The sea monster is enjoying himself in the cracked meringue pond. The windmill is constructed from gingerbread with fondant sails. The caravan is constructed from gingerbread with Oreo cookie wheels. The doors and windows are made using liquorice allsorts.

Kid tested for taste and durability.

For my creation, I used Heidi's Haunted Gingerbread House template, and ALL materials are edible. Elements and candies used are as follows: Purple royal icing for the house siding; sweet & sour cola belts for the tower and bay window's bricks; black and orange licorice for the trim and window shutters; crushed coloured candies for the windows; dark chocolate wafers and candy corn for the roof; purple Smarties and Oreo cereal for decorative accents; black licorice and black royal icing covered spaghetti for the iron railings; Halloween sprinkles that cover the two decks floors; candy canes for the pillars; sweet & sour candy for the walkway; gum balls for the pumpkins; solid gingerbread for the tree, tombstones, front door, ghost bride peering behind her tombstone, and wall decorations w/ benches (located on the side & back of the house); dark chocolate curls for the new graves; toasted coconut for the tree's leaves and leaf covered lawn; dark chocolate pretzels for the property fencing; and edible ink used on the pumpkins, tombstones, and window shutters. See more pictures at https://www.heidis-house.gingerbreadbydesign.com/

Lucky the leprechaun was inspired by my vacation in Ireland. Skull, bust, and hat are all Gingerbread cookies. The face is covered in gingerbread clay and details are hand sculpted. I threw in some foil wrapped chocolate coins from his pot of gold.

Crow House is decorated with black and purple fondant, with red candy windows. Marshmallow pumpkins, mini-black jawbreakers, Mini Kit-Kat bars, and yogurt covered prezels decorate the yard.

The Haunted Mansion with a gravyard! I love anything spooky and usually always do a Christmas themed Gingerbread dispay. I was really excited for this one. This house is made entirely out of gingerbread and royal Icing. The tree's base is gingerbread and covered in fondant. The tombstones are also gingerbread decorated with icing. I covered the ground with oregano, parsley and chocolate cookie crumbs. The windows are made from Isomalt powder and water boiled together.

My gingerbread house is all handmade my me! I spent night preparing the icing and it took many steps for the completed piece. Royal fondant was mainly used. The shape was even created by myself through trialing designs using cereal boxes! I was so happy with the final presentation and so were the many little children who demolished it hehe!!!

I enjoy making ginger bread houses. My nephew is having a Creepy Clown party and asked me to make him a haunted house. I thought a funfair would be better. I created a template for the the Ferris wheel, ghost train and heater smelter. I used 3 Square boards so each one can stand in its own. The ginger bread recipe is my grandmas which she used since the 1940’. I used moam sweets for fence tops with chocolate custard creams, chocolate letters, lotus biscuits, giant skittles, pumpkin and eyeball sweets from a local farm shop, twizzlers, red laces and icing googling eyes. Edible glitter. Everything is edible except the boards they are stood on. The ghost train a shelter skelter are also filled with sweets.

This house was inspired by Rufus’s cabin in the show “Supernatural”. I wanted to create something that wasn’t a traditional halloween theme; instead something more realistic that makes you feel curious, scared and apprehensive as if you were visiting a real, old haunted house or strange place.

This house was made with my 5 yr old daughter, so it has a balance of sweet and spooky. I used gingerclay for the first time to make the tree. Spaghetti is the gate around the coffin. A bone pile of sprinkles, and black skulls on the bridge. The skull is baked gingerbread. The gravestones hope that 2020 will end quickly :)