Haunted Houses

I came up with this idea a while ago. I was inspired by last Christmas's "gingerbread" houses. So for FHE last night, we made haunted houses. It was a hit. Really easy and quite fun (even for the adults.)

Royal Icing Ingredients

2 egg whites
2 tsp lemon juice
3 cups powdered sugar

Blend egg whites and lemon juice until well blended and foamy. Slowly add sugar while blending. Mix well. If desired, add color and blend thoroughly.


I put mine in sandwich bags and snipped a corner to squeeze out. My first bag had a huge hole, so it was coming out in a big blog. That's the bag I used to put the houses together, so they had a lot of orange goop all over. I used the finer tipped bag to do all the decorating.

Simple structure using graham crackers.

I put frosting on the roof and let him put candy wherever he wanted to.

Then I put frosting on the bottom of whatever candy he wanted for the plate and he placed it.

Peeps makes ghosts, cats, and pumpkins.

He really had a ton of fun. This house is for Grandma and Grandpa Denney.

This is our haunted house, made by yours truly. If you can't tell (Aaron couldn't.) I made spiderwebs on the side and put black M&M's for spiders. It was a lot of fun. And yes, we had some candy when we were done.