The gingerbread houses we found easiest to build were those that came with a base piece included. These often have holes baked into them, which the wall pieces of your house should slot into neatly. If you fill those holes with icing before slotting the wall pieces in, you won't have to hold them in place for long.

But if your gingerbread is more of a blank slate, it can be a challenge to picture what to do with your icing.REPEAT to form both sides of the house. Shape house so corners area as square as possible. Allow a few minutes to stand. 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. 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.

But if you want your house to be a real centrepiece, you'll want to give yourself some thinking time beforehand to work out what you'd like to do with the included decorations and which patterns you'd like to pipe with your icing. The chocolate house kit is full of sweet and creamy milk chocolate. You’ll receive two Cadbury Dairy Milk Bars, two Cadbury Dairy Winter Wonderland Edition bars, white buttons and flakes. It’s not all chocolate, though. The Christmas Cottage Kit also includes the Dairy Milk Winter Gingerbread Edition bar! Plus, the kit comes with instructions for assembly. Contains:Gingerbread house pieces, icing sugar, fairytale folk biscuits, fruit gums, chocolate buttons, hundreds & thousands, piping bag.

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There's no piping bag included in this kit either, so we had to use butter knives when attempting to decorate it. Four expert tips to help you build your gingerbread house 1) Plan what you want to do before you start There were a few issues with this kit. We found the icing runny and difficult to use when constructing this house. There are plastic clips included for holding the base in place, but the wall pieces still leant inwards and we'd put that down to the weak cement.

Piping icing is great fun with this kit. Along with the piping bag there are a few different nozzles included so you can mix up the shape of the icing as you decorate. Gingerbread house building is an exciting activity, and it can be all too tempting to rip open the box and get to building straight away. 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. It's worth having a look online at a few gingerbread house design templates if you're struggling for ideas.You're also instructed to cut one of the pieces yourself with a knife, which is a task that could destroy your house before you've had the chance to build it. 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. Our verdict:Ideal if you're not keen on gingerbread, but it's messy to build and will likely end up covered in fingerprints. 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. You're asked to melt a certain amount of the chocolate in the microwave and use it as cement. As fun (and messy) as that was, we thought that melted chocolate was an ineffective cement compared to icing.

Contains: Gingerbread house pieces, 2x gingerbread biscuits, pre-made icing, 3x bags of sweets, plastic base. Our verdict:It certainly looks impressive on the box, but we struggled to create anything half as nice.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.