Planning begins each July for the gingerbread house, with crews baking 4-by-12-inch gingerbread bricks to cover the home’s wooden frame. As the holidays near, builders frame the rooms, install ...

Whether you were a Girl Scout who was staring at that gingerbread-house-building patch ... And how did the baker keep the doors from falling down, keep the windows in place, avoid the roof ...

One of Martha’s Vineyard’s beloved “gingerbread houses” has hit the market for $749,000.

Using a knife, cut out the door on the front of the house and place the door ... Remove the gingerbread from the oven. Trim the windows if the mixture has spread and sprinkle the crushed sweets ...