Making Gingerbread
This primary ingredient gives gingerbread its distinctive flavor.
What is ginger?
This is the traditional time of year when people build gingerbread houses.
What is Christmas?
The people who bake the gingerbread man.
Who is the old man and woman?
What do you decorate a Christmas tree with?
Lights/Ornaments
This type of icing is used as an adhesive to secure the main parts of the house.
What is Royal icing?
Name two items you use to decorate gingerbread houses?
gumdrops, candy canes, M&Ms, and Icing
Other popular decorating items include mini marshmallows, chocolate chips, pretzels, and cereal pieces like Golden Grahams or Chex for shingles.
In the classic fairy tale, these siblings find a house made of gingerbread in the forest
Who are Hansel and Gretel?
The fox says, "Ooo, the water is getting _______, crawl onto my snout" right before he eats the gingerbread man!
What is deeper?
What do you put on the top of a Christmas tree?
Star/Angel
Gingerbread was used as a medicine long ago because it was believed to help with this.
What is medicine that helps with stomach digestion?
Gingerbread houses are often decorated with this type of sugary substance.
What is icing?
True or False: The world's Biggest Gingerbread House was bigger than a school bus
True
he fox says, "I can't ______ you, come closer gingerbread man!"
What is hear?
What do you put under the Christmas Tree to put the Presents on?
Tree skirt
The tradition of making decorated gingerbread houses started here in the early 1800s.
Where is Germany?
Most common alternative for gingerbread.
Graham Crackers
In Shrek, what character lives in the gingerbread house at first
The Muffin man
Name two animals who chased the gingerbread man
Write 2: fox, horse, dog, sow, cow, bear, wolf
What does Santa put under the tree?
Presents
Gingerbread was considered an extremely important symbol of L—— and L——.
Love and Luck
This spice, besides ginger, is commonly used in gingerbread recipes.
What is cinnamon?
What winter character is a popular gingerbread cookie shape besides a man
A Snow man
Name one item the gingerbread man is decorated with
Choices: frosting, peppermint buttons, raisins, jelly beans
What (most of the time) is the shape of the ornaments?
Sphere
In 2013, a group broke the Guinness World Record for the largest gingerbread house, with a 2,520-square-foot edible-walled house, in this U.S. state.
Where is Bryan, Texas, U.S.A.?