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

by Susan Matheson and Lauren Chattman

'The Gingerbread Architect' offers a quirky combination: from a baker and an architect, the only modern gingerbread book that employs the principles of great baking and great design. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307406784
• ISBN13: 9780307406781
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.9" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Here is a great Gingerbread House book!

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.

Gift

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.

The Gingerbread Architect

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.

A Fun Project with the Kids

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.

Creative and fun!

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?