Gingerbread house template in cm, printed on A4
This generator works in centimeters and prints on A4. This page lists eight metric houses with their piece sizes and the number of A4 pages each template takes, so you can see whether a house is a one-page job before you print. Every row opens the generator already set to that house, in cm and on A4.
Houses and A4 pages
All of these use dough rolled to 6 mm, a 1.5 cm roof overhang and side walls that sit between the front and back walls. The last two are A-frames with no side walls. The longest piece decides how awkward the printout is: the classic house has a roof panel 23 cm long, which is longer than a page is wide.
| House | Footprint | Walls | Roof | Front wall | Roof panel | A4 pages | Template |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiny | 8 × 10 cm | 6 cm | 45° | 8 × 10 cm | 13 × 7.2 cm | 1 | Open |
| Small | 10 × 12 cm | 8 cm | 45° | 10 × 13 cm | 15 × 8.6 cm | 2 | Open |
| Medium | 12 × 15 cm | 9 cm | 45° | 12 × 15 cm | 18 × 10 cm | 2 | Open |
| Classic | 15 × 20 cm | 10 cm | 45° | 15 × 17.5 cm | 23 × 12.1 cm | 3 | Open |
| Big | 18 × 22 cm | 12 cm | 45° | 18 × 21 cm | 25 × 14.2 cm | 4 | Open |
| Large | 20 × 25 cm | 14 cm | 45° | 20 × 24 cm | 28 × 15.6 cm | 5 | Open |
| A-frame, small | 10 × 14 cm | 0 cm | 60° | 10 × 8.7 cm | 17 × 10 cm | 1 | Open |
| A-frame, classic | 15 × 20 cm | 0 cm | 60° | 15 × 13 cm | 23 × 15 cm | 2 | Open |
For the A-frames, the "front wall" column is the end triangle (base × height). Page counts are from the generator's print layout with all pieces on shared pages, each page carrying a label and a 2 cm check square.
How the pages work
An A4 sheet is 21 × 29.7 cm. The generator keeps a 12 mm margin and uses the top of every page for a label and the check square, which leaves about 18.4 × 24.7 cm for pieces. A wall or roof panel that is larger than that is split across pages. Neighboring pages share a 1 cm strip, and you tape them together along it. Small pieces usually stay on one page, but a piece can cross a taping seam.
Pieces are packed together, so the page count is for the whole house rather than per piece. The tiny house at 8 × 10 cm takes 1 page, and the classic 15 × 20 cm house takes 3. The large 20 × 25 cm house takes 5, and its largest piece is a 28 × 15.6 cm roof panel. Past that size, the taping is most of the work.
Printing it at the right size
Set the print dialog to 100% or "actual size". Fit-to-page shrinks the pieces and the house stops fitting together. The check square on each page should measure 2 cm with a ruler. If it does not, fix the scale before you cut dough. The generator's page picker offers Letter and A4, and a link with paper=a4 in it, like the ones in the table, opens on A4.
Print on ordinary paper first and check the fit against the dough rolled to your thickness. If you roll thicker or thinner than 6 mm, change the thickness in the generator. The cut sizes move by one thickness at each corner, which the thickness guide shows. For a stiffer pattern, glue the printed sheets to thin card.
Dough and trays
Dough with 25% for trimmings, and the trays needed on a 40 × 30 cm oven tray:
| House | Dough | Trays |
|---|---|---|
| Tiny, 8 × 10 cm | 378 g | 1 |
| Small, 10 × 12 cm | 576 g | 2 |
| Medium, 12 × 15 cm | 806 g | 2 |
| Classic, 15 × 20 cm | 1,211 g | 3 |
| Big, 18 × 22 cm | 1,624 g | 3 |
| Large, 20 × 25 cm | 2,072 g | 4 |
| A-frame, small, 10 × 14 cm | 384 g | 1 |
| A-frame, classic, 15 × 20 cm | 796 g | 2 |
Other sizes work the same way: type them into the generator in cm. Inch sizes and common houses are in the dimensions guide, and the one-sheet guide lists the houses that bake on a single tray. Steep two-piece roofs are covered in the A-frame guide.