Surprisingly enough, professionals don't use molds to make gingerbread houses. The gingerbread is cooked in sheets, cut to size, and then held together with hard sugar icing "mortar."
they triple in size as they get cooked
No, since they are already cooked they won't expand. All you have to do is heat them up.
No, it stays about the same, unless you over cook it, and then it shrinks!
Not if fully cooked.
the gingerbread man
Not many animals can have gingerbread, including rats. They can have gingerbread, but it is fairly unhealthy and it is generally advised not feed gingerbread cookies to rats.
Gingerbread originates from Armenia.
Gingerbread - novel - was created in 2002.
The gingerbread man came from Germany
Nuremberg is famous for its gingerbread.
The Gingerbread Man was created in 1875.