How to Make a Halloween-Approved Gingerbread House

Directions

1. Assemble your gingerbread house following the kit's instructions.
2. Apply purple frosting to the side walls of the house.
3. Spread brown frosting on the roof, then press chocolate cereal squares into it to look like shingles.
4. Line the roof ridge with candy corn to create finials.
5. For the front door, spread purple frosting on the back of a chocolate graham cracker, cut it to fit with a slight tilt, and attach it in place.
6. Attach chocolate bar sections as windows, piping white royal icing along their edges to make them pop.
7. Use royal icing to glue candy eyeballs onto the windows.
8. Form a circle of candy corn above the door to mimic a stained-glass window.
9. Color coconut flakes green with food coloring, then scatter them around the house to form grass.
10. Halve chocolate-filled sandwich cookies, write “RIP” and “BOO” on them with brown decorating icing, and anchor them into the grass with a dab of brown frosting.
11. Sprinkle crushed graham cracker around the tombstones to look like fresh dirt.
12. Dip mini sandwich cookies into melted chocolate, attach candy eyeballs with a dot of frosting, and press them into the purple frosting on the house to form spiders.
13. Pipe brown decorating icing around each spider to create legs.
14. Dip a piece of grapevine into melted chocolate, then fix it to the yard with brown frosting to make a dead tree.
15. Drape strands of marshmallow fluff over the house to resemble cobwebs.
16. Position the marshmallow ghost in the front yard as the final spooky touch.