By Megan McFadden in Christmas — Dec 12, 2021

10 Vegan Gingerbread House Recipes

Try these vegan gingerbread house recipes today, and learn from some of these bloggers’ tips and tricks for making a homemade gingerbread house.

Photo by Tijana Drndarski / Unsplash

Introduction

It’s disappointing that most store-bought gingerbread houses aren’t vegan. Fortunately, some food bloggers gave us the pleasure of making vegan gingerbread houses at home.

Try these vegan gingerbread house recipes today, and learn from some of these bloggers’ tips and tricks to making your homemade gingerbread house a success.

If you want some vegan candy to decorate your gingerbread house, here are some vegan Halloween candy and vegan candy recipes. You may also like my vegan Christmas blog post.

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1. Romy’s Gingerbread House

Romy London makes her vegan gingerbread house out of standard vegan gingerbread dough, aquafaba icing, and various kitchen utensils.

Let your gingerbread harden overnight before you make the gingerbread house.
Assemble your gingerbread house on a cake board or waterproof cardboard.
Don’t be afraid to use gingerbread house templates to get the shapes right. (She provides some in her recipe.)
If you want your gingerbread house to have even better window and door displays, melt vegan gummy bears onto them.
If you want more decorations besides frosting, some ideas include but are not limited to chocolate buttons, marshmallows, and sprinkles.

2. Britt’s Gingerbread House

Britt from The Banana Diaries makes a vegan and gluten-free gingerbread house and assembles it using isomalt.

It’s easier to make gingerbread houses using gingerbread house cookie cutters over templates.
Use isomalt over regular icing to make stained glass windows and build a sturdier gingerbread house.
Add vegan food coloring to the royal icing to make it more colorful.
Use sugar on the roof and royal icing on the cake board/waterproof cardboard to create snow.
Her preferred decorations are gumdrops, candy canes, and chocolate gems.

3. Julia’s and Isa’s Gingerbread House

Julia and Isa from Zucker&Jagdwurst make a vegan gingerbread house using extra beet molasses and aquafaba royal icing.

Bake it without the kids around because making the batter can get pretty hot, and it needs to be assembled quickly to be successful.
Cool the gingerbread house dough in the refrigerator for half an hour before you bake it.
If the gingerbread house dough spreads out too much while baking, they recommend smoothing everything by grinding it with a fine grater.
Decorate everything before assembling the gingerbread house.
Some of their decorations were sliced almonds, pretzels, biscuits, and wafers.

4. Tom’s Gingerbread House

Tom from Project Vegan Baking has a vegan gingerbread house that’s pretty straightforward.

If you want to make the royal icing thicker, add a tablespoon of cornstarch, suitable for icicles.
Get vegan butter at least 75% fat, so the higher liquid content doesn’t mess with the baking process.
Assemble the gingerbread house with melted caster sugar over royal icing to make it much sturdier.
You can substitute the golden syrup for inverted corn or glucose syrup if you’re concerned about allergies or don’t have any golden syrup in your pantry.
Rotate the gingerbread dough pan halfway through to prevent it from baking unevenly.

5. Kristina’s Gingerbread House

Kristina from spabettie has a vegan gingerbread house with a secret ingredient.

Use cooked lentils to create a sturdier gingerbread dough.
Add some beet juice to the frosting to make your gingerbread house pink.
If you want to decorate gingerbread houses at a Christmas party, assemble the gingerbread houses prior.
Cover your surfaces with kraft paper or old newspaper before decorating.
Get vegan sprinkles from Sweetapolita.

6. Robin’s Gingerbread Carousel

If you prefer to make something other than a gingerbread house, try building this vegan gingerbread carousel by Robin from Vegan Dollhouse.

Instead of adding cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and nutmeg, use two teaspoons of pumpkin spice as a shortcut.
Get vegan food coloring from Color Kitchen.
Outline the carousel animals with colored frosting before you fill them in with their main colors.
After frosting, let everything dry overnight before assembling the carousel.
After you finish making the gingerbread carousel, place it on a lazy Susan, so it can spin as it should.

7. Kelly’s Gingerbread House

Kelly from The Pretty Bee has a vegan gingerbread house with an A-frame.

Make a gingerbread house using an A-frame because it’s more robust and easier to assemble.
If you’re looking for gluten-free flour to make this, try using Namaste Perfect Flour Blend.
If you want to build the gingerbread house using sugar glue, don’t have the kids around because it’s scorching.
Make some gingerbread cookies to decorate around the gingerbread house, like pine trees and horses.
Some of Kelly’s favorite gingerbread house decorations include YumEarth Giggles, YumEarth candy canes, and No Whey Chocolate No-No’s.

8. Fabio’s Gingerbread House

Fabio from Little Swiss Baker has an incredibly quaint vegan gingerbread house.

Make more royal icing than you think because you’re going to need a lot to assemble and decorate the gingerbread house.
To make your gingerbread house extra fun, stir in some crushed candy canes into the gingerbread house dough.
If you would instead build your gingerbread house with something besides royal icing, caramel works well.
Make stained glass windows by melting vegan hard candy.
If you’re interested in eating it, have it within three days of building it, or else it will be too hard to consume.

9. Nikki’s Gingerbread House

Nikki from Tikkido transformed her original recipe into a vegan gingerbread house because her daughter’s friend has a severe egg allergy.

A great vegan alternative to eggs is aquafaba.
Powdered aquafaba is also available online or in stores if you don’t like chickpeas.
Be creative with your gingerbread house, from making a Nativity scene to dinosaur gingerbread cookies for around your gingerbread house.
Roll your dough in a baking pan.
Assemble the gingerbread house on cake circles.

10. Christina’s Gingerbread House

The last vegan gingerbread house is by Christina from Addicted to Dates.

Use flaxseeds as your vegan egg substitute because they work terrific as a binding agent.
Use glasses to support the roof and sides while the royal icing dries.
If you don’t have any vegan butter, coconut oil should work fine.
Seal the royal icing baggie to prevent it from drying out right away.
Some decoration ideas include rosemary sprigs, wooden popsicle sticks (picket fence), and fairy lights.

Conclusion

Some general tendencies I noticed with these vegan gingerbread house recipes are the following:

Most make their royal icing out of aquafaba, the liquid in a chickpea can.
The majority used gingerbread house templates to get the shapes to turn out correctly.
Some prefer to decorate before building the gingerbread house, and others assemble it before decorating.
There are various vegan goodies to decorate the gingerbread houses, from vegan candy to wafers.
There’s more than one gingerbread house shape.
Cool the gingerbread dough before baking it.
Let the gingerbread set before assembling.
Work quickly because the gingerbread house dough and royal icing don’t work well for long.
Bake and decorate gingerbread cookies to surround the gingerbread house.
Give the gingerbread house some personality, from different food colorings to having dinosaurs surround the gingerbread house.

Have some eggnog, gingerbread, and peppermint to eat some Christmas flavors. I also did three vegan Christmas taste tests on non-alcoholic drinks, treats, and sweets. Lastly, I’ll have a vegan gingerbread house review out sometime this week. Have fun making vegan gingerbread houses.