Anyone bought a gingerbread house/cookies at DWorld?

[makinorlando]

another question - can you have one shipped home?

Disney does not ship them

 

[goofie4goofy]

another question - can you have one shipped home?

If I remember correctly from last year they do not ship. They are very delicate.

The gingerbread shingle from the GF was very disgusting and very expensive. I did not like it. The regular gingerbread men were ok. The best gingerbread men were at Epcot Germany .

At the GF gingerbread house they also sell gingerbread ornaments decorated with royal icing. They were beautiful and I bought a bunch of those for package tags! I don't think they are for eating....thye are for hanging on the tree. Just recently someone posted on how awful and hard the snowflake cookies are....I got a chuckle out of that.

 

[mydisneykids]

The large ones at GF are difficult to get on a plane. We bought one last year and wanted to carry it on in the box. It would not fit in the overhead and they would not let us hold it. We had quite a few offers from people around us to help us eat it though.
We finally got it out of the box( it has a plastic wrap around it) and twisted it to get it to fit into the overhead. Then collapsed the box to put it in when we landed. Belive it or not it made it home unharmed.
Good luck, it was a beautiful centerpiece for Christmas.

 

[CarolA]

I think the cookies at Germany are much better. The one's at the GF were not that good. Won't buy another one, but the decor is beautiful.

 

[ppony]

The large ones at GF are difficult to get on a plane. We bought one last year and wanted to carry it on in the box. It would not fit in the overhead and they would not let us hold it. We had quite a few offers from people around us to help us eat it though.
We finally got it out of the box( it has a plastic wrap around it) and twisted it to get it to fit into the overhead. Then collapsed the box to put it in when we landed. Belive it or not it made it home unharmed.
Good luck, it was a beautiful centerpiece for Christmas.

THANKS for the tip! I'll be prepared with mine. I'm also bringing a small hardcase as a carryon to bring ostrich eggs home in. I wonder if I should try and bring a little bubble wrap for the house to come home in. Mydisneykids, would you have liked to have a small bunch of bubble wrap if you could have had it?

 

[luvgrumpy]

We love to eat the shingles at GF! They taste good but it's also just kind of magical. We take a break from MK and go over to GF to take in the decor. Then we eat the shingles while walking around enoying the magic.

 

[mydisneykids]

THANKS for the tip! I'll be prepared with mine. I'm also bring a small hardcase as a carryon to bring ostrich eggs home in. I wonder if I should try and bring a little bubble wrap for the house to come home in. Mydisneykids, would you have liked to have a small bunch of bubble wrap if you could have had it?

Yes. The small kind of bubble wrap would have been nice to place around it in the overhead to protect it from the hard corners of the luggage around it.
Good luck.

 

[Lesia]

And they last all year too@! We bought one last year, and put it inthe entertainment center. A few pieces of icing have fallen off, but I can glue those back on. No eating ours, just smelling it in the cabinet and setting it out for this year.

 

[ppony]

Update from me. We bought both the large and "small and got both home is perfect shape. Well almost percect, Santa fell over and the door fell off but I can whip up some new royal icing and fix that. I think Midwest airlines has considerably larger storage than usual so taht p[robably aided in our transport. God knows their seats are HUGE! AHHH... I digress. I also think the "smaller" one really wans't that much smaller than the big one. I was expecting a wee bit bigger for the big one or I would have just been happy with a small one for us too. I bought the other for my brother and SIL for watching our dog while we were gone. And that one was from the Beach Club where we were very surprised to still find them at 7PM in the shop a week ago. I thought they would be sold out by dinner. Not that night anyway. And it was a chef from TV (don't remember who) that actually made these so they came with a certificate and signature. Pretty cool.
As for the taste, we didn't care for it either. We bought a shingle and found them bland and more dry and tough-breadlike than our favorite kind of soft, gingery, sweet gingerbread cookie. So I'm glad I only wasted the $ on a shingle and hadn't planned on eating the house. We threw the cookie away after a couple bites.

Oh yes, we did bring bubble wrap and used it (it was very helpful especially for our ostrich egg) but also, those hundreds of Disney bags you end up with from all your shopping work well as packing materials too.

 

[STEAMBOAT209]

DW and I got purchased a few of the shingles, they were good, and I was wishing for a quart of milk to go with them. We purchased a few more on our last day for the plan ride home.

 

[UrsulasShadow]

I agree that the GF shingles tasted like stale bread with very little spice. Not worth the $5+ each.

 

[mrsltg]

I bought the house from the GF for my dd. It was $65 and it's beautiful. We carried it on the plane with us and put it in the overhead. It was fine. We then had to drive five hours home so the house sat on dh's lap the entire way. We really love it!

 

[SaraMc]

Wow, the special from last year I belive or maybe two years ago with Raven talking about Christmas at WDW has those houses for less than $65.
DH loves gingerbread and talks almost everytime we bring up the trip of how all his snack credits are going to Goofys Candy company to get ginger mickeys.
Its killing him too, I havnt made gingerbread yet for Christmas.. maybe I will add ears to them and dip them in chocolate for him.

 

[Kaitysmom]

I bought the Mickey Ears cookie cutter last year and made mouse ears instead of gingerbread men. Dipping them in chocolate sounds like a great idea. I was thinking about doing the details of Mickey's face but I may not be up to the challenge, lol!

 

[wilderness gal]

During our stay 11/25-12/02, we bought a "shingle" at GF and it was stale, and was concerned the large GB House was to big for the plane. We went over to the Beach Club & bought one for $35.00 and they placed it in a box & a Disney Bag & it fit in the over head compartment on the plane. We flew Delta. All was well, nothing broke, my child ate some of it, tore it apart to give to his friends & they loved it. I wish I'd known how good it was before I had bought it, because I would have bought another one to put under the tree. Chef Stephon' make a mean Gingerbread house.

 

[DestinationDisney]

Oh yes, we did bring bubble wrap and used it (it was very helpful especially for our ostrich egg) but also, those hundreds of Disney bags you end up with from all your shopping work well as packing materials too.

Just out of curiosity (and I hope you don't mind my asking) but where did you buy an ostrich egg and what for?