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Gingerbread house of your house

Bake your real house for Christmas. Pick it on the map and get cookie cutters for every wall and roof panel, sized from its real outline, storeys and roof, with window and door cutters, paper templates and a guide to building and icing it.

Find your house

Click your house on the map. The dashed line is the simple shape the dough will make.

Or try one

Name on the templates

The house

Roof

Roof pitch

Storeys

Keep the wing (an L or T shape) A chimney Window and door cut-outs

The outline is simplified to a box the dough can build, plus one wing when the house has one. Windows go in by storey, the door on the side facing the street.

Size and dough

The house's longest side

Dough thickness

Every joint allows for it: the long walls run the full length, the end walls fit between them, and the roof sits on the walls' outer edges. 5–6 mm bakes strong and still cuts cleanly. Rolling guides of this thickness come with the cutters.

Your print bed

A piece too big for the bed gets a cutter in parts, or you can cut it with the paper template.

Cutting edge

Download

Templates and guide

Full-size paper templates of every piece (big ones tiled across sheets), the base board, the dough and icing recipes, and the building order step by step. No 3D printer needed with these.

Free for personal use, and for selling up to $5,000 a year with a TerraPrinter credit. Bigger sellers need a commercial license. Keep the data credits. License

How the gingerbread house works

Your real house

The outline comes from OpenStreetMap, with its storeys, height and roof shape where they are mapped. It is simplified to a box the dough can build: the main block, plus one wing for an L- or T-shaped house. Set the roof or storeys yourself if the map has them wrong.

Made to fit together

The long walls run the full length and the end walls fit between them, so the dough's own thickness is in every corner. The roof's underside sits on the outer top edge of the walls, the gables rise to meet it, and a wing's roof runs into the main roof at a valley.

Cutters and templates

Each piece gets a cutter with a thin, tapered blade and a wide grip rim, and identical pieces share one. Windows, round attic windows and the door have their own small cutters. Every piece is also a full-size paper template in the PDF, for cutting with a knife.

Bake and build

Roll the dough between the rolling guides, cut, bake and trim it against the templates while it is warm. The guide takes you through the order: walls first, a night to dry, then the roof, the chimney and the snow.

Building outlines, storeys and roof shapes © OpenStreetMap contributors. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors, © CARTO. More to make: map cookie cutters, your home in 3D, map ornaments, open the TerraPrinter app or see more 3D map gift ideas.