6 chocolate gingerbread house Recipes

unsalted butter (16 tbsp or 2 sticks), softened, light brown sugar, eggs, dark molasses (not blackstrap), pure vanilla extract, cake flour, ground ginger, ground cinnamon, baking soda, salt, gingerbread house templates , recipe follows, sugar , plus more as needed, egg whites, heavy cardboard base for the house, pastry bag with a medium plain tip and a small plain tip, frosted shredded mini-wheats for the roof, as needed, tootsie rolls for a fence, as needed, white hershey kisses for roof top spikes, as needed, candy canes for a lamp post outside the door, as needed, granulated sugar for snow drifts, as needed, necco wafers for a cobblestone path, as needed, marshmallows , for snow man, pretzel sticks, for snowman arms, as needed, whole cloves, for snowman eyes, graham crackers to build a shed, as needed, assorted candy such as gum drops , peppermint drops, m & m s, white chocolate chips, red hots, non-pareils or snow caps, silver dragees, green mint jelly leaves, life savers, and animal crackers

shortening, dark brown sugar, dark corn syrup, molasses, ground ginger, ground cinnamon, king arthur unbleached all-purpose flour, egg whites, sugar, cream of tartar, pastry tip -round #5, covered board (12 inches x 7 inches), pirouette cookies, tootsie roll midgees, edible glitter, snowflake-shaped sprinkles, vanilla and chocolate chewy pudding snack bites, semisweet chocolate nonpareils, milk chocolate candy bar (1.55 oz), ice cream sugar cones

cream cheese, softened, sugar, vanilla extract, whole graham crackers , carefully broken into 6 halves (or chocolate graham crackers), edible decorations such as dry cereals pretzel (fruit loops, apple jacks frosted flakes,etc., sticks)

butter, softened, brown sugar, light corn syrup, eggs, all-purpose flour, baking powder, ground ginger, ground cinnamon, green apple hard candies, crushed, egg whites, sugar, cream of tartar, drops green gel food coloring, pastry tips -round #5 and star #16, red and 4 brown m iniature m&m s, divided, cinnamon gum, divided, cheese-flavored snack crackers, peppermint sticks, malted milk balls, holly berry and leaf-shaped sprinkles, pretzel rods, sourdough pretzel twists, white sprinkles, caramel-filled chocolate candies, curved chocolate slices (swoops), divided, pretzel sticks, light bulb-shaped sprinkles