The Gingerbread Architect: Recipes and Blueprints for Twelve Classic American Homes

I highly recommend this book. It has great photos! It is very professional and will give you many ideas. This book will soon be a favorite of pastry chefs. It may be too complicated for a beginner in gingerbread.

My step-mom (a crafty-sort) requested this book specifically as a gift. There's cool house designs, and she was very pleased with it.

This is a great book! It is beautifully illustrated and well written. I just hosted a gingerbread house building party for 15 children ages 2.5 to 9 years. Although I did not use the patterns I was very happy with the performance of the recipes. The dough making and baking were simple and the "glue" was magnificent. It was easy for the kids to handle and stuck well...in fact there was not one single "structural failure". I can't wait to try one of the more elaborate creations that is shown in the book.

I grabbed this book for a friend who bakes. However, after a better look, I bought one for myself with the idea that I would attempt a gingerbread house holiday project with my daughter. The photos are inspiring and the instructions were clear and simple enough that I thought we could actually pull it off. My daughter and I are still looking at the beautiful shots of the finished houses and deciding on which one we will build. Kudos to the authors for such a lovely book to share with my child.

I saw this in a bookstore today and am ordering a copy for my sister. I loved the way the houses look and the variety of them. As for the previous reviewer, excuse me but WHO in the WORLD makes two story gingerbread houses with interiors?