The best gingerbread house kits to buy (and build) in 2025, tested

Score: 90/100

Aldi’s winning kit includes all the panels required to build a sturdy structure, plus plenty of white icing and gummy sweets for decorating, and an abundance of detailed sugar figurines to build your Hansel & Gretel scene. With a chewy texture and warming, festive spice, it ticked all our boxes.

Available 23 November 2025

Score: 89/100

If gingerbread doesn’t do it for you, why not construct your edible house with classic Cadbury’s Dairy Milk chocolate instead? Each pack includes blocks of delicious milk and white chocolate, buttons and a flake.

Instead of icing, you melt the edges, so they stick together, and the roof features “tiles” of Christmas trees in lieu of iced decorations.

Score: 86/100

This was the most expensive kit we tested, but it did feel particularly luxurious (so it's probably best saved for the adults to decorate!). Alongside the pre-made panels, the box includes icing sugar, red food colouring, a piping bag, sugared balls and smarties.

The biscuit itself is beautifully buttery and very lightly spiced, and the variety of decorations made the build extra fun! The biscuits were also perfectly sturdy and slotted together well, and there’s a step-by-step online decoration guide for those who need some inspiration.

Score: 85/100

Co-op's well-priced kit comes with a handy plastic base for easy construction. Lightly spiced, and not too sweet, the classic gingerbread recipe will appeal to the whole family, and the decorative sprinkles add welcome crunch.

There are also tubes of white and red icing, with a choice of three nozzles for decorating like a pro.

Available 29 October 2025

Score: 83/100

This is an easy-to-build house if you’re thinking of getting the little ones involved. The soft biscuit is well spiced, with ginger lingering on the palate, and it isn’t overly sweet. The thick icing successfully held the panels in place and provided a good base for the multi-coloured sprinkles.

Score: 83/100

We’re stretching the limits of what might be considered a gingerbread house here, but it's too delicious not to share.

Made with a rich date and toffee-infused sponge, plus stem ginger pieces, this cottage-shaped pud is warmed in the microwave and comes with sticky gingerbread sauce for drizzling on top, along with sugar “snow” to sprinkle before serving. An indulgent dessert for the big day.

Available 1 November 2025

Score: 82/100

Featuring a classic, sweet gingerbread with mellow spice, Morrisons’ kit will have you whipping up a festive forest in no time. The pack includes red and white icing, and a variety of sprinkle shapes to add a little extra crunch. A real bargain of a kit, it's perfect for a rainy afternoon!

Score: 81/100

We can think of more than a few little ones who would be delighted with this edible train kit. It includes seven classic gingerbread biscuits that you cut into 28 individual pieces, which may sound complicated, but this one was fun and easy to slot together. Also provided are iced lebkuchen (a soft German biscuit similar to gingerbread, but heavier on the cloves and cardamon), two bags of gummy sweets and smarties.

It looked amazing once complete, providing a real sense of satisfaction for our testers. Whether you eat it immediately or not is up to you.

Available 1 November 2025

Score: 81/100

Marks & Spencer’s crunchy house is extra fun to decorate, with a wider selection of colourful sprinkles, jelly tots, balls and snowflakes to aid creativity. There’s also a choice of three nozzles – star, round and flat – for extra snazzy icing designs.

Like others, the kit comes with a plastic base to help with construction, and the icing glued everything together with ease.

Score: 78/100

Lakeland’s take on the traditional gingerbread house comes with five chunky panels, (including a base) as well as smarties, sprinkles and sugared figurines. Like the Biscuiteers kit (above) you make the icing yourself with the sugar and piping bag included, so it can be as thick or runny as you please.

The biscuit isn’t overly spicy, while the smarties add a welcome pop of colour, but it was the sugared people and dog that really made this festive scene complete.