Looking past our amateur decorating job we were still disappointed with how this house looks. The icing pen colours and sweets looked different to how they appeared on the box - especially the orange icing - and the gingerbread in the box was much darker. Some of the simpler gingerbread house kits aimed at younger audiences tend to have handy templates and grooves pre-baked onto the gingerbread to help guide you as you decorate. It simply wouldn’t be Christmas without the taste of mouth-watering chocolate to sweeten the season. Looking for the perfect chocolate Christmas gift for your favourite niece? Fussy colleague? Sweet-toothed mum? No matter who you’re shopping for this year, our festive gifts are guaranteed to hit the spot.

It saves you a task if your gingerbread house kit comes with icing included, but you'll need to decide if the amount that's included is enough for what you plan to do.However, as you start to run low the tube takes a lot of squeezing. Our hands were cramping up towards the end. Our verdict:Ideal if you're not keen on gingerbread, but it's messy to build and will likely end up covered in fingerprints.

But if your gingerbread is more of a blank slate, it can be a challenge to picture what to do with your icing. Our verdict: We think this delightful gingerbread house kit is sure to putyou in a funChristmassy mood.It was by some way our favourite overall, especially in terms of appearance.In the box you'll find a selection of Cadbury chocolate bars. We were surprised that none of the chocolate came pre-cut into shape, which means you'll need to cut several pieces out of the house yourself using the whole bars. There are grooves baked into the roof and walls of this house, which are handy guidelines for easy decoration. We thought even professional bakers might get fed up with building this gingerbread house, though. You're instructed to hold the house pieces together in place for 15 minutes on several occasions, which we think takes some of the fun out of the activity. Once the house was up we were pleased with its appearance, and we really had to fight the urge to chomp on the chimney, which is a Flake.