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DIY Gingerbread House Tutorial

Skill level: Intermediate

Guest instructor Mitchie Curran returns for this fun holiday special! In this video, you will learn how to take a store-bought gingerbread house kit give it the ol' fixer-upper treatment, taking a broken-down double-wide and converting it into a cozy upscale bungalow. Mitchie offers several tips and tricks that will level-up your gingerbread house into an amazing snowy masterpiece.

Mitchie also breaks down how to make ginger clay, a special material that works just like modeling chocolate, how to bake your own gingerbread house kits, and a fast trick for getting your gingerbread pieces to stick together.

There's a lot to cover in this tutorial, so let's get our tools together and let's get started!

51:35 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to upgrade a store-bought gingerbread house kit or bake your own gingerbread house kit into a beautiful cozy gingerbread cottage
  • Learn how to make ginger clay
  • Mitchie's trick on getting gingerbread to stick together without using royal icing (and waiting forever for it to dry)

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Overview of the equipment 0:35
  2. Assessing the gingerbread 5:05
  3. Cutting the gingerbread 8:01
  4. Trimming the pieces 11:22
  5. Making ginger clay 13:00
  6. Coloring the ginger clay 15:59
  7. Making a color wash 18:42
  8. Gluing the gingerbread together 19:55
  9. Making your own gingerbread 23:04
  10. Rolling out the gingerbread dough 27:54
  11. Cutting out gingerbread pieces 32:02
  12. Making the decorations 34:15
  13. Decorating the house 37:54

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About Liz Marek

Liz Marek is a professional cake artist, sweet and savory recipe developer, and the founder of Sugar Geek Show, where she teaches cooking, baking and cake decorating through detailed tutorials, food science explanations, and kitchen-tested recipes. She has been creating recipes and teaching baking techniques since 2008, helping bakers of all skill levels gain the confidence to make professional-quality desserts at home.

Liz is known for breaking down complex cooking and baking concepts into simple, approachable methods. Her work focuses on helping people understand not just how a recipe works, but why it works. Through Sugar Geek Show, she shares step-by-step recipes, cake decorating tutorials, and practical baking guides designed to make professional techniques accessible to everyone.

Over the years, Liz has taught thousands of students through online tutorials, classes, and educational content focused on real kitchen results. Her recipes are carefully tested and written to help people succeed the first time they make them.

When she’s not developing recipes or teaching baking techniques, Liz also hosts curated travel experiences for women through her travel brand Soul Sisters.

You can find Liz’s latest recipes, baking tutorials, and food science tips at Sugar Geek Show.