Holiday Gingerbread Boxes

Our gingerbread gift boxes are simply made of square cookies glued together with Royal Icing. It’s hard to make these very big, so the boxes are best for small gifts – and are a wonderful decorative and edible gift on their own. Or, use them to serve treats on the coffee table at Christmas.

Materials and Tools

• Gingerbread cookie batter from either Iced Gingerbread Birds Recipe or Gingerbread Square Cookies
• Royal Icing
• Box templates
• Ribbons

Step 1

Enlarge the templates on a photocopier, but we recommend making these boxes no larger than 6” square. Otherwise, they’ll be too fragile.

Step 2

Cut the gingerbread squares using the templates. Bake cookies.

Step 3

“Glue” together and hide edges using Royal Icing.

Step 4

Place gift inside, and wrap with ribbons to reinforce.

Get Christmas gift ideas and more wrapping tips in our Christmas & Holiday Guide!