The buckets of flowers in front of the florist and baguettes in front of the bakery look beautiful enough to eat! I honestly don’t know how these bakers make gingerbread look this realistic. This looks like your classic mid-century suburban home, complete with a grumpy old man in the window… just itching to yell at those Young Whippersnappers to “Say off my lawn!” Gingerbread Maison au FrancaisĪ delightful street in a French village comes to life in this remarkable gingerbread wonder. Classic Mid-Century Stone Gingerbread House According to its creators, this Gingerbread House, modeled after an old Southern Mansion in the eastern part of the state, took more than 500 hours to create. This particular beauty landed Top Ten in the National Gingerbread Competition at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville. This looks like a ceramic decoration that you would buy for the holidays, but it was one of last year’s National Gingerbread Competition winners, which means it met the criteria… aka it is truly made from Gingerbread. Inspired by the Dickens’ Classic, this Gingerbread “House” (I use the term loosely in this case) features Scrooge himself, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Past, Present, and Future that visited Scrooge on Christmas Eve taught him those valuable life lessons. Dickens A Christmas Carol Gingerbread House Perhaps a bit less Wintry than some of the other entries in this collection of Gingerbread Houses, but wonderful all the same. This delightful gingerbread treehouse brings back childhood memories. Political power has never looked so sweet! Gingerbread Tree House The white candy Widow’s Walk is delightful. Gingerbread Century HomeĪll of the classic details of your true century home are recreated using gingerbread, candy canes, and other sugary treats. Absolutely spectacular! Game of Thrones Iron Throne GingerbreadĪnd, speaking of Game of Thrones, some Super Fan recreated the famous Iron Throne out of Gingerbread. Medieval Gingerbread VillageĪ complete Medieval Village that would make any Game of Thrones fan proud… but made out of Gingerbread, Icing, and Candies. Although this Gingerbread house has fewer rooms and dormers than the real Inn, most of the other details are remarkably recreated. The Bakery at Penn State clocked a total of three days to bake, build and embellish this spectacular gingerbread creation. This delightful piece was inspired by the Nittany Lion Inn in State College, Pennsylvania. Perhaps the least Christmas related in our collection of Gingerbread Houses, but this piece was far too much fun to exclude. You rarely see crackers being used with Gingerbread Houses, but I think they work really well here to create the stone path to the house.
The classic children’s fairy tale comes to live, complete with a dragon, a damsel in distress, and a prince. Technically not a Gingerbread House, but far too cool to not include it in this collection of Gingerbread Houses. Gingerbread Christmas BakeryĮvery tiny detail is immaculately recreated to the point where you can almost smell the freshly baked bread. This looks like an abandoned building that has been taken over by Graffiti Artists, in an exceptionally delicious way! This is actually perfect for the artistically challenged (like myself) as it is allowed to be SUPER messy, and still look like it is intended to look. If you LOVE Harry Potter, you will LOVE this Hogwarts-inspired Gingerbread House. Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater Gingerbread Houseīased on Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural marvel, but in edible form. This is one particular village I’d love to take home.
Three Gingerbread Houses in one delightful package. You really have to study this piece for a long time in order to catch all of the details that went into creating these delicious piece. I even love the hand-scripted “Welcome” mat by the front door. Intricate details, candy cane columns, and icing fences combine to create this magical gingerbread house. The intricate details, inventive designs, and painstaking work are evident in each one of these glorious examples. These Spectacular Gingerbread Houses are far beyond my skill set, but they are amazing to look at in awe and wonder. I’m not sure all of these spectacular Gingerbread Houses would meet those criteria, and I know of at least one that definitely would not, but they are beautiful to look at nonetheless. In order to be considered a “true” Gingerbread house, according to the National Gingerbread House Competition official rules, everything above the base must be made from edible materials, with at least 75% of the main structure being made from Gingerbread. So, there’s that… which would be considered your typical Gingerbread House.Īnd then there’s what I’m about to show you. Not terrible, but nothing to write home about.
They usually ended up something like this (and that’s on a good day!): I have made a few Gingerbread Houses in the past, most often using one of those Gingerbread House Kits.
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