10 Over-The-Top Gingerbread Houses

There are a lot of things we love about Christmas, but gingerbread houses are one of our favorites! With so many creative, fun ideas out there, how can you not build your own gingerbread house this Christmas? Not only do they look amazing, but baking your own gingerbread walls will have the entire house smelling like Christmas cookies. Make it even more fun and host a gingerbread house decorating party, where your kids can design their own. With so many sweet candies to decorate with, your gingerbread houses will be colorful and ready-to-eat in no time.

This log cabin uses pretzels to create a fence, a woodpile, and moose antlers above the front door. With a little car pulling up with a Christmas tree strapped to the top, this gingerbread log cabin looks like the perfect place to spend Christmas.

This gumdrop-filled gingerbread house looks gigantic and way too perfect to eat. There are icing icicles hanging from every inch of the three roofs and a candy cane doorway that adds even more Christmas décor to this house.

This incredible pirate ship gingerbread house is filled with Christmas decorations, from the bow to the stern. There are tiny Christmas lights strung across the deck, and candies all throughout the boat that show us how these pirates decorate for the holiday season.

What goes better with a crunchy gingerbread cookie than a nice pot of tea? In this case, the tea pot is the gingerbread house! The flowers that line the spout resemble vines, while other flowers fill the windowsills and are planted in pots on the lawn.  

This house was Buzzfeed's grand prize gingerbread contest winner in 2010, standing over four feet tall and replicating a beautiful, snow-covered Victorian home. The house, which was surrounded by Christmas trees and lit up inside, was made from over 40 pounds of gingerbread and 30 pounds of royal icing.