Wild Baker Barn Gingerbread Kit, 1-Count Packages (Pack of 2)

All the extremely bummed and angry reviews I just read wowed me b/c we didn't just use what the kit included. We shingled the roof with pretzel chips, busted out some Halloween candy that we still had in a bag, and went for it. Our gingerbread was not too soft. I was happy with how sticky the icing was because it made for a good adhesive (and we don't intend to eat it anyway.) And, while we did experience the bags splitting while applying the icing, we found it all so entertaining, b/c our son was delighted by the mess. Our final product came out beautifully, and has our friends cooing at the cuteness.

We bought this kit because we thought it would be cute. I never buy a kit without assuming the pieces will be cheap, but this surpassed my imagination. Their "decorating bags" are cheap plastic bags, even though they give you professional tips (you can't screw a tip onto a plastic bag). The result is a mess- frosting leaking from around the tip, and the seams on the bag break. Even if it hadn't leaked, I don't think there would have been enough frosting to do the whole barn, but I lost a lot of it due to leakage. From there, the gingerbread was too soft to hold up- the roof pieces buckled and the walls cracked. Normally a gingerbread piece has trouble holding together due to the frosting- in this case, it was the gingerbread.Then, my family decided to call it a loss and just eat the mess we'd made. Only we couldn't do that either. The frosting was gross- not sweet, but very sticky, and the gingerbread was flavorless. We threw the whole thing out. I have permanently red-stained hands from the frosting leaking everywhere, so I look like I slaughtered an animal, and I have no gingerbread. Very upsetting. I'll never buy a kit again.

Thought this was going to be a cute gingerbread kit...never made a "barn" gingerbread house. The gingerbread was VERY soft, the walls starting bending by the time I got to the roof. When I got the 3rd roof panel on the 1st roof panels I put on bowed then broke into 2 pieces. I only got to use the red icing which is disgusting to taste and VERY sticky and dyes your fingers red! The icing bags that were given were EXTREMELY thin that they could hold the decorating tip. Had to use a heavy duty zip-lock. After the roof and walls breaking & collapsing I just scraped the entire kit! I did contact the manufacturing company but nothing will probably be don't to fix the issues with this kit! I have bought many cheaper gingerbread house kits and have had zero problems! Waste of Money!!!!!

Very poor Kit. Icinging does not hold barn roof on as it should. Bags are of poor designs. Horse is to weighted to stay attached to the side. The worst Gingerbread kit I have ever bought

If I could give this zero stars I would. The gingerbread is too soft, and it was impossible to get the thing to stick together, even though we propped it up with toothpicks. An hour after it was decorated and the frosting should have been dry, the whole thing just collapsed on itself. It was comical. Don't waste your money!!

The gingerbread was soft, the icing sticky and not enough of it. Collapsed on itself into a sticky mess. Horrible kit!