A-frame gingerbread house template
An A-frame house is all roof: two steep panels that stand on the base and lean together at the ridge, with a triangle at each end. Set the wall height to 0 in the generator and it draws that shape: two end triangles and two roof panels, no side walls. The presets below print at actual size.
What other pages give you
I opened two A-frame tutorials. The Landmark Project links a free printable PDF and says to roll the dough about 1/4 in thick, but states no piece sizes, icing or dough amounts. The Smile Mercantile graham cracker cabin asks for about 7 crackers per house, with two of them cut down by a quarter, and gives no inch or centimeter dimensions and no angle. The table below fills that gap for dough houses.
Sizes for five A-frame houses
All use dough rolled to 1/4 in. The roof panels stand on the base, so they overhang 1/2 in only at the front and back. At 60° the end triangle has three equal sides, and each roof panel is as long from base to ridge as the house is wide. The 6 × 8 in gable house at 45° with 4 in walls peaks at 7 in and takes 1,299 g of dough. The classic A-frame below has the same footprint, peaks at 5.2 in and takes 855 g, because four pieces replace six.
| House | Footprint | Roof angle | Peak | End triangle (2) | Roof panel (2) | Dough | Half sheets | Template |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mini | 4 × 5 in | 60° | 3.46 in | 4 × 3.46 in | 6 × 4 in | 380 g | 1 | Get the printable pattern |
| Small | 5 × 6 in | 60° | 4.33 in | 5 × 4.33 in | 7 × 5 in | 563 g | 1 | Get the printable pattern |
| Classic | 6 × 8 in | 60° | 5.2 in | 6 × 5.2 in | 9 × 6 in | 855 g | 2 | Get the printable pattern |
| Classic, one sheet | 6 × 8 in | 55° | 4.28 in | 6 × 4.28 in | 9 × 5.23 in | 737 g | 1 | Get the printable pattern |
| Large | 8 × 10 in | 60° | 6.93 in | 8 × 6.93 in | 11 × 8 in | 1,422 g | 2 | Get the printable pattern |
Dough includes 25% for trimmings. Half sheets are 18 × 13 in pans. The sheet count treats each end triangle as its full rectangle, so two triangles laid point to point take less room than counted. Triangle sizes are base × height.
In centimeters, a 15 × 20 cm A-frame at 60° peaks at 13 cm, needs about 796 g of dough and 2 trays of 40 × 30 cm. Open the metric preset.
Cutting and building it
Bake all four pieces flat. The end triangles stand under the roof panels, and the panels lean on their slanted edges with the bottom edge on the board. Steep roofs slide while the icing is wet. What works for me: pipe a bead on the board, stand the two triangles first and let them set, then lean the roof panels together and hold them for a few minutes. The assembly guide has the icing and the fixes for sliding panels.
Want a short wall at the bottom, for a door or a ledge of candy? Type 1 in as the wall height instead of 0. That turns it into a steep gable house with two narrow side walls.
No oven? The graham cracker page has a true A-frame layout from three crackers. For another angle, see the roof pitch guide.
Print it
Get the printable pattern for the classic A-frame, then change any number in the generator. For icing amounts, see the royal icing guide.