I made 16 mini gingerbread houses for my son's pre-K to decorate in class - BIG thank you to TiffTurtle for her tips and recipes, I used antonia's icing like she said as well. I am NOT a cookie person, but I loved working with the gingerbread!!! I admit I cheated a bit and used chocolate graham crackers for the roofs. I had to go out of town the day before STARTED baking at 11:00pm and had to have them all assembled and in school by 9:00am, so I had to cut down the baking time.