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Anybody know of a source for tree-nut free gingerbread house kits?

I've done the whole Googling/Amazon thing, but I'm not seeing any ingredient lists on Amazon and its search engine is helpfully deleting all my "nut free" "nut allergy" etc. terms from the search. Looks like Little Rae's bakery is both in Seattle and nut free, but I don't see any gingerbread kits on their website. Help! My niece was just diagnosed as severely allergic to tree-nuts, and, as she has every toy known to children, I thought this would be a pretty cool gift to do with her while I'm home over the holiday, but obviously sending her into anaphylaxis would not spread the holiday cheer. Happy to order online, but I'm the two places I've seen which look like they have the product I want have too-long lead times to get to spokane by Christmas (Sensitive Sweets) or crazy websites with no ordering capability for the product in question (A&J bakery). Do any of you lovely Q'landers have loved ones with nut allergies who love gingerbread or superior research skills?

Sphinx asked in Gift Advice 5 months ago | Report
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    You could just make one from scratch

    http://allrecipes.com/recipe/childrens-gingerbread-house/

    Looks like assembly is a multiday process though. (you can try with other recipes - just randomly picked this one.). Pretty sure the ones you see around are hot glued together - I never had the patience to wait a day, maybe that's why mine were always kind of a disaster...

    You can also use mix apparently, but has to be this specific one:

    http://easteuropeanfood.about.com/od/products/fr/gingerbreadmix.htm

    Don't know if it's nut safe, you'd have to check at the store, can't find the info on their website.

    And finally - an even better idea. Fudge House. Really really easy to make, super delicious, structurally sound (maybe with some chopsticks stabbed in it for extra security), can make into bricks or slabs, can decorate it too. Roof might be challenging but why not just use cardboard with wax paper on it for that. When we were really little my mom made gingerbread houses out of just cardboard and wax (and covered in parchment? Not sure but icing would not stick to wax) paper and we would decorate them. No idea as to the icing, but fast, they stay up (hard to do with gingerbread), and you can make really elaborate shapes if you want. Plus all the kids really care about is the candy anyway.

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    We bought a kit at (Cost Plus) Works Market that is nut free but it was processed in a facility that also processes nuts.

    I looked at the ingredients at a kit I saw at QFC and it was the same deal.

    It will depend on the extent of the nut allergy as to whether this is a problem.

    I think I saw a kit for making a house out of Graham crackers at one of the grocery stores on 15th but I just caught it out of the corner of my eye.

    HTH

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