Here are our favorite gingerbread house decorating ideas to help you make your gingerbread house — whether store-bought or homemade — a little extra this year. First, plan your setting.

Talk about frustrating! So we asked seasoned gingerbread decorating pros and winners of gingerbread house contests for their tricks to make building and decorating a a breeze.

Entries at the Franklin Park Conservatory's annual contest and professionals offer gingerbread house ideas. Or you can buy a pretty good prefab kit.

This holiday season, Rude Boy Cookies is selling cookie decorating kits that are fun for the whole family.

Whether it's decorating gingerbread or sugar cookies or just making some favorites like chocolate chip, it's a holiday tradition for many families especially this time of year.

Here are our favorite gingerbread house decorating ideas to help you make your gingerbread house — whether store-bought or homemade — a little extra this year. First, plan your setting.