Gingerbread houses aren’t just for the winter holidays. It’s just as much fun to craft a haunted gingerbread house during the Halloween season. Whether you construct your cookie house from a store-bought kit or whip up homemade gingerbread dough from scratch, bring in all your favorite candy and enjoy time constructing and decorating with kids around the kitchen table. Maybe even add a haunted gingerbread house contest to your Halloween party fun.
To spark your imagination, here are 12 Halloween gingerbread house ideas to add a little hocus pocus to your Halloween.
1. Haunted house and graveyard
Love this creepy ivy-covered haunted gingerbread house and graveyard made by Kathleen Tozzi. The details are amazing.
2. Wicked witch’s house
Tap into your inner baking genius by making this dark and eerie gingerbread witch’s house recipe from Not Quite Nigella, complete with the Wicked Witch of the East’s striped socks.
3. Bright and cheery haunted house
Who says Halloween gingerbread houses have to be spooky — or even made out of gingerbread? This super-cute and cheery Halloween gingerbread house by Modern Maven is made with chocolate cookies.
4. Easy Halloween Peeps house
If you’re looking for a super-easy house to make with preschoolers or a group of kids all at once, try this easy Halloween Peeps house, made with chocolate graham crackers, from It’s Always Autumn.
5. Ghostly graham cracker house
Another not-gingerbread spin on this project, this easy haunted graham cracker house from Kid Friendly Things to Do is a great way to gather your whole family and celebrate the spooky season.
6. Haunted Halloween mansion
Impress your friends at your next Halloween party by adorning an amazing candy-covered haunted mansion, like this one from Beth Bryan Designs. It takes more time and patience than the others on this list, but the hard work pays off with bragging rights.
7. Gingerbread house by the cemetery
Some Halloween gingerbread houses have a spooky cemetery in the yard. And watch out for the uncovered grave and the overgrown pumpkin patch. Micheal Crowthers used foamcore, paint and glue to improve upon a boxed kit.
8. Death by chocolate house
Grab all of the chocolate in your house and go crazy with this death by chocolate haunted house — cookie and icing recipes and step-by-step instructions via Kitchn. Have your kids help pour the chocolate into the cookie sheets and ice the house to their heart’s desire.
9. Pink candy house
Bats, ghosts, and a black cat add just the right amount of haunt to this little pink candy house by Britsy Bean.
10. Bump in the night haunted house
Complete with spiders, bats, ghosts and skeletons, this haunted Halloween cookie house by Love From the Oven combines all of the Halloween scares we know and love into one easy and fun Halloween craft.
11. Cottage and graveyard inn
Beware, gingerbread Hansel and gingerbread Gretel. We think a witch lives in this inn. This amazing vegan gingerbread house and scene by Yumzio Bistro was a winner at the Pittsburgh Vegan Expo.
12. Haunted house with golden shingles
Layer Golden Grahams “shingles” and a candy corn “stone walk” to create this scary haunted gingerbread house from the Zinke family blog, but don’t be surprised if your family eats it all up after it’s finished.
