Christmas Candy House

Holiday projects are memories made, and this Christmas Candy House will certainly give anyone that holiday spirit.

This is a fun, tasty project I have been doing since I was 11 years old.

Back in the 1970s, I would save all my Halloween candy to make my candy house, and way back then, it was unwrapped toffee and tootsie rolls.

We usually made it different every year, and I will give you a list of suggestions on what to use that work perfectly, waiting to eat this on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day if the kids let you wait that long.

As I got older, I made them with my nieces and nephews, then my kids, and now my grandchildren.

We love to make fun treats like our Christmas Reindeer Cupcakes together.

If you're looking to start a delicious, easy tradition, this fun project will live on to the next generation, etched in their minds.

Scroll down to my printable recipe card for these easy instructions on how to create this perfect candy house.

What's It Made Of?

This candy house is constructed with heavy cardboard, usually found when you purchase a four or six-pack of soda pop!


I have tried gingerbread, homemade and store-bought, and since no one ate that part, as a child, I started to use the container as the shell of my house.


My 6-year-old grandson found this very easy to construct with me, so now just about any young age can create this edible candy house.


I have also made them with graham crackers; the cutting part was not that easy for the kids. This is super simple to make for them.


The frosting is the glue to hold it together, and I have also adapted that throughout the year, not using royal icing anymore; this is a thicker buttercream confection.

Other Tips and Candy Suggestions

• mini wrapped candy bars
• tootsie rolls for an all log cabin look
• red and green dots
• red and green chocolate-covered candies
• Rolo
• chocolate snowcaps, stars, or rounds
• Necco wafers
• pretzels
• mints
• marshmallow wrapped Christmas shapes
• red and green shaped hard candy
• Christmas ribbon for around the platform
• candy canes or sticks for the sides and front
• mini cookies that are round to use as a wreath
• red hots for decoration
• keep in mind the age of the child, on what candy they can eat, soft or hard
• make a small chimney frost and add red hots, and stuff the hole with large marshmallows 
• use marshmallow peeps, Christmas trees for the background, and large marshmallows for the snowman

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Just A Guideline

These instructions are just a guideline on how easy and fun this is to make a Christmas Candy House. Just change it up however you want and what your family likes.


My family loves Hershey's kisses, and I prefer all wrapped candy. The pretzels were something new we tried this year because they looked like logs. Mix and match your house with your favorites.


Hope you enjoy this family project as much as we do every year; it's a Christmas tradition here.

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Author: Claudia Lamascolo

Christmas Candy House

This is a Christmas Cardboard candy house, made very simply for kids to enjoy a holiday project. Simple ingredients, cardboard, and candy to make beautiful memories and traditions together.

Ingredients

• 1 cardboard soda six-pack with handle empty
• 1 large heavy-duty piece of cardboard for a rectangular roof, door, and 2 triangular pieces for the sides
• Optional: cut a chimney out to fit with cardboard and frost it, adding marshmallows around it.
• spreading knife
• scissors
• bowl for frosting
• Cookie sheet wrapped in foil or another kind of platform to set the house on a wooden board, plastic red tray, etc.
• heavy duty wrapping and packaging tape
• mini cookies for wreath above the door
• suggestions for candy to decorate of choice
• mini wrapped candy bars
• tootsie rolls for an all log cabin look
• red and green dots
• red and green chocolate-covered candies
• Rolo
• chocolate snowcaps stars or rounds
• Necco wafers
• pretzels
• mints
• marshmallow wrapped Christmas shapes
• red and green shaped hard candy
• Christmas ribbon for around the platform
• candy canes or sticks for the sides and front
• mini cookies that are round to use as a wreath
• red hots for decoration
• keep in mind the age of the child on what candy they can eat soft or hard
• Frosting Ingredients:
• 5 cups powdered sugar
• water to thicken to a thick paste
• 3 tablespoons white shortening
• Optional: colored green and red sugar 

Instructions

1. Make the frosting adding the powdered sugar, shortening and a little water at a time to make a thick paste, cover and set aside.
2. Cut out two triangles of cardboard for the sides of the candy house.
3. Cut a rectangular piece to fit for the roof.
4. Cut a small door out of cardboard.
5. Tape the triangle side to the house with packing tape.
6. Add some frosting to the bottom of the candy house to adhere to the platform it will be sitting on.
7. Frost the door and put it slightly open on the front.
8. Slather frosting starting on the front of the house, making the sidewalk using candy walkway,
9. Use a mini cookie frosted sprinkled with green colored sugar for a wreath with a red hot candy for holly.
10. Continue adding frosting to the sides of the house and placing candy of choice.
11. Tips:
12. After the candy is completely applied and the house is covered, thin out the frosting and make drips like icicles randomly.
13. You can add candy canes in each corner or candy thick sticks adhered with frosting.
14. Get creative and have fun.
15. Let dry completely before moving it anywhere.

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Other Recipes To Try

I love to make ornaments out of clay for the holiday to hang on the tree or give away. kitchen pantry items like colorful sugars to add to any cookies I bake.

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