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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.
Our verdict:It certainly looks impressive on the box, but we struggled to create anything half as nice. 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. MELT the chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl at 50% POWER. Begin with 20 second bursts then reduce to shorter bursts as the chocolate melts, stirring well periodically. Only heat until 75% of the chocolate has melted. REPEAT to form both sides of the house. Shape house so corners area as square as possible. Allow a few minutes to stand. But if your gingerbread is more of a blank slate, it can be a challenge to picture what to do 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. Our verdict:Although it wasn't the most straightforward to build compared to the other gingerbread house kits we tested, we loved how it looked and it was definitely the tastiest.
Some of the simpler gingerbread house kits aimed at younger audiences tend to have handy templates and grooves pre-baked onto the gingerbread to help guide you as you decorate. It saves you a task if your gingerbread house kit comes with icing included, but you'll need to decide if the amount that's included is enough for what you plan to do. The gingerbread house pieces in this kit are smooth and plain, so there's no indication of how you might go about decorating it. The instructions advise that you draw your design fully before starting so you know exactly what you're going to be doing with your piping bag. We thought even professional bakers might get fed up with building this gingerbread house, though. You're instructed to hold the house pieces together in place for 15 minutes on several occasions, which we think takes some of the fun out of the activity.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. It's worth having a look online at a few gingerbread house design templates if you're struggling for ideas.
Our verdict:Ideal if you're not keen on gingerbread, but it's messy to build and will likely end up covered in fingerprints. Cadbury has released tasty holiday products before, so we’re excited to try our hand at putting together and eating a chocolate gingerbread house. Plus, the Queen of England loves Cadbury bars. I’m ready to start decorating! Where do I buy a kit? Contains:Gingerbread house pieces, icing sugar, fairytale folk biscuits, fruit gums, chocolate buttons, hundreds & thousands, piping bag. There's no piping bag included in this kit either, so we had to use butter knives when attempting to decorate it. As soon as the icing hits the gingerbread it'll start to dry and set, so you'll get into trouble if you change your mind about your decoration halfway through. 2) Look up designs if you need inspiration
As we found with John Lewis' pre-made icing, the icing in this kit was runny and didn't hold the pieces together very securely. Our verdict:We had a bit of a disaster building this gingerbread campervan, and were disappointed with the kit overall. Contains: Gingerbread house pieces, 2x gingerbread biscuits, pre-made icing, 3x bags of sweets, plastic base. 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.
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