Originally Posted by Magdalena
Is it baked cookie sheets? Love it!
It's gingerbread cookie dough rolled out and cut into the house shapes and baked. The icing is called royal icing it dries hard - those little decorations you can buy at the grocery store for cakes are made from royal icing.
I bake the cookie a little longer than the directions indicate because I want it hard but not burnt :-). Last year I found a cookie cutter set for gingerbread houses. It's so fun to make at Christmas I decided to make one for Halloween.