The theme inspiration was an old steam locomotive driven by Santa and the fire manned by an elf. Created using gingerbread, royal icing, gum paste and isomalt.

This house was made from a kit for our family contest.

This house was created by a family of 4 with 2 kids ages 9 and 7. The use of the shredded wheat around the pond gives a delicate feeling of grasses blowing in the breeze. The house was donated (along with gifts/giftcards) to a"family in need" that we adopted from an local social service organization .

First time gingerbread bakers: Rocks are jelly beans, roof is Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, windows are from melted gummy bears, trees are sugar cones covered in icing, and Pirouette cookies for the pillars and edging in the house.

I’m a huge fan of the show Yellowstone. So for my VERY FIRST homemade gingerbread house I decided to do a replica of the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch. I imagine this as a “Walking in a Dutton wonderland”

The main roof is covered with Triskets, the windows are crushed hard candies, and the chimney is chocolate rocks. The little addition uses the traditional Neccos on the roof and Fruit Stripe gum for windows.

A super fun project that took a bit of engineering to balance that house in the tree!

We wanted to create a whole scene and used candies just as peppermint, pretzel, spice drops, and more to create a whole delicious winter scene.

McLaren Service Station: Inspired by a photo of a gas station along Route 66. It celebrates by family's love for anything automotive and the parked police cruiser is in honor of my husband's retirement this year, after a 28-year career in law enforcement. The cardinal is in honor of my mother-in-law who passed in October. Structure made from construction grade gingerbread. The brick pattern was embossed by hand. Fondant and candy create the details. The oil drum and box, hide the light switch.

A red and green Christmas dream! Decorated with a variety of candies including: lifesavers, gumdrops, candy cane, marshmallow, candy can Andes mints, sixlets, and more!

My entry was inspired by Disney's Tangled, the theme for my grandaughter's 2nd birthday! It's made from gingerbread, adorned with fondant, royal icing and assorted goodies, and is my tallest creation at 33 inches! Rapunzel just decorated the Christmas tree and is waiting for Eugene (aka Flynn Rider) to join her. But first he must chase off evil Mother Gothel, who is trying to sneak in the back way to ruin their fun. Our traditional Bear, Max and some woodland friends are also on the lookout!

My gingerbread lantern is completely edible with gelatin windows. The inside church has fondant church mice . The flowers are made of fondant mixed with tylose powder and the garland is made from wafer paper .

This is our first gingerbread construction. It shows our families wonder of Christmas, with coziness, lights, and cats! The walls, tree, chairs, rug, and fireplace are all made of gingerbread with fondant and icing. Both cats are made out of modeling chocolate. The stained glass windows are made out of jolly ranchers and the clear one out isomalt. Behind the clear window is a wintery scene with bushes, candy snowman and sign, with a peppermint stick. Santa is flying high above! Hope you enjoy!

This house was made from a kit for our family contest.

This year with Covid making things difficult for family to travel, I decided to focus on a simpler Christmas celebration close to home. One tradition my family can all agree on is a family walk along the ocean, where we see the historic White Rock train station and the BNSF train. I used candy from the local candy shop across from the museum:)

Red and white theme utilizing peppermint candies for decoration.

Gingerbread floor and background, and fireplace, Royal icing decorations, tree is ice cream cone decorated with Royal icing. Dog, presents, rug and tree skirt are fondant. Tree skirt hand decorated with edible pen. Everything is edible except actual photos. Photos are all of a family. This was made as a gift to a family.

All gingerbread and Royal icing. Pointsettia pots are fondant. Pointsettia are Royal icing. Trees are ice cream cones decorated with Royal icing and dragged. Inside is lit with mini lights. Windows are gel sheets. Everything is edible except lights. Was raffled off and won by a member of an organization I belong to.

Here is our scale model of our house! It is completely edible (apart from the interior lighting of course)! It comprises an Italianate structure with bay windows, dormers, and a lit cupola above the roof! We completed the decoration with piped garland and wreaths.

The local gingerbread exhibit is called under the sea so I thought it best to keep Christmas in the mix and make a Mermaids Christmas tree. The coral is all gingerbread covered in royal icing and smoothed with a paper towel that has created a little texture. The little spikes on the coral are candy cigarettes that have been cut into little pieces and covered with a little royal icing. The mermaid, fish, shells and octopus are made from fondant and modeling chocolate.

My entry is the home of a mouse family in a hollow tree all ready for Christmas. My gingerbread houses is made with 100% edible materials. The tree trunk is one solid curved piece of gingerbread that I made using a handmade mold. My gingerbread is carved freehand to get the look of plank floors and wood grain. I used sugar glass for the windows, candle flames, fire in the fireplace, and amber glass bottles in the kitchen. Other ingredients include gum, coconut, fondant, royal icing, meringue

We were inspired by the Phantom Manor in Disneyland Paris, but wanted to give it a simple, traditional, white-on-brown aesthetic. This was a fun pandemic activity that my husband and I completed over Thanksgiving weekend together. We used whole candy canes, crushed candy canes, starlight mints, Necco wafers, and a wide assortment of fun sprinkles, in addition to a simple sugar syrup that we poured into the windows and let harden to create the panes of "glass."

I have so much fun making a gingerbread house each year. It's my favourite activity of the season. I bake the gingerbread from scratch and change up the decorations each year. I am an amateur but its great fun. This year I chose a red, green and white theme. The roof is covered in fondant. The fence is made of yogurt covered pretzels, the trees are ice cream cones and the snow is coconut. I learn something new each year, this year I melted candies to make windows.

I used Golden Grahams for the roof, candy canes, Ice cream cones for the trees, starburst for the packages, Tootsie rolls for the mailbox and snowman hat, Icing for the snowman, gum drop, chocolate bar for door, and sucker candy for the windows. I like this design mainly for the roof that resembles cedar shake and the square windows

Horse carousel fondant, eatable lace, sprinkles, all eatable, royal icing. Simple.

Bboard 30 in long, royal icing, marshmallows, lollipops, pretzels, isomalt, fondant, chocolate, m & m's, sprinkles

I have always loved mermaids and wanted a scene of a mermaid under the sea, surrounded by the treasure of the ocean. The mermaid tail and crown; rock structure, fish, turtle shell, treasure chest with gold coins, rocks and ocean floor is all gingerbread. Ocean shells, foliage, mermaid face, hair, arms, baby octopus is made from fondant, modeling chocolate, and poured sugar.

Christmas At Boomtown

The Emerald City is made of gingerbread tubes of various sizes. The apple tree is made from a Rice Krispie treat that was molded into a face and then covered in chocolate. Toto and the ruby slippers are fondant. The rainbow is baked gingerbread covered with rainbow licorice. This house is completely edible. Everything is gingerbread or candy.
It was donated to a "family in need" as part of the Operation Santa Claus program run by the Department of Social Services in Los Angeles.

First house ever. Evolving as I go. Used marshmallow fondant, coconut snow and a bit of sparkle gummie candies and gingerbread men.

A snow covered stone and log home was the inspiration for this gingerbread project. I used the John Wright Gingerbread cast iron mold, which makes excellent, sturdy pieces, and construction grade gingerbread. Pretzels, chocolate rocks, and various other candies and tiny pine ones all on a wood cookie a logger cut for me. Royal icing secured everything and then sprayed with a craft glitter spray. I gifted this and another to my two girls at my salon. Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 !!

My inspiration is a Detroit Mansion that is now part of a college. I liked this house because of the turrets. I had never done a gingerbread house with curved pieces. The house is completely edible except for the lights inside the house. I use construction grade gingerbread recipe by Julia Usher. The windows are isolmalt and all the decorations are fondant or frosting with coconut snow. I have also included Santa's Sleigh, Rudolf, and my family as part of the decor. Thank you!

I’ve been doing Gingerbreading for the last 10 years. Last year my mom died and I found a gingerbread house template in her stuff that she used when I was a child. So this year I used it myself but sorta took it to another level. 😃

This is our 20th year of building a gingerbread house and decorating it with the neighbor kids. Dr Seuss’ Whoville was the inspiration. This year’s decorators were 10,10 and 6. Dane was really enjoyed making all the Royal Frosting grass. It is possible that more candy was eaten than ended up on the Gingerbread House. The biggest challenge on this house was figuring out how to build the curved roofs and walls. Ended up making a jig and using pie weights. The kids take it to school when finished.

This is a family tradition and this is our 10th year. My sister and I bake and construct the house and then we have our gingerbread party the Saturday before Christmas. This year we used a doll house pattern for our inspiration. My children and grandkids do the decorating using all kinds of candy, cereal, beans etc. My family looks forward to our party every year. I hope in a hundred years my family is still going strong with this tradition.

Christmas Kuckucksuhr was constructed completely of Gingerbread. Fruit Roll Ups and gum drops were used for the lederhosen. Girl Scout cookie used for the table. Edible papers, royal icing, shredded wheat cereal were used. The pinecone and chain were golden raisins, almonds and royal icing. What a joy it was to make.

Since having a lemonade stand at the North Pole seems silly, I wondered what kids could sell from a stand where it's always cold. The answer is obvious: snow cones! Here we see all the neighborhood children coming to get their icy treats and play together in the snow. The house was inspired by a decorative house from the craft store. Everything is edible and handmade. The green stucco effect was achieved by applying tuile batter to the baked gingerbread and baking again.

I love my Diet Coke and I'm pretty sure Santa is also pretty caffeinated leading up to the big day. His favorite North Pole Soda Shop stocks all his favorite beverages as well as cookies and snacks for his midnight trip. Of course the friendly penguin servers are happy to bring any drinks or treats up to the sleigh-thru to make it just that much more convenient for the big guy.

I built this creation with my friend Marion Gillespie for a local gingerbread contest. The entry is 100% edible. Tree & house frame are gingerbread. Tree bark is homemade modelling chocolate. Figurines & house siding are fondant. Roof is cinnamon toast crunch cereal. Grass is coconut. It is impossible to capture all details in one photo as some features are hidden by the tree. In fact Santa is behind the tree peeking at the children who are listening to a story being read to them by a fairy.

This house was created as a donation for a "family in need" that we adopted from our local Department of Social Services. It was delivered to the family, along with gifts and gift cards, last week amid squeals of delight from everyone in the family.

This is completely edible. The structure, sleigh, and tall reindeer are all gingerbread. Santa and his dog are fondant. Lightposts are a sugar/eggwhite combo

This is a replica of my house with deck and lighted railing (on back that isn't pictured), made to 1/2" scale. The structure is made entirely of gingerbread, with one exception: I used a small wooden stick for the main beam of the roof. Windows are sugar. The front of the house has siding of corrugated metal. I covered the gingerbread with foil tape and scored it to resemble the metal.

I used the ski chalet template and modeled it after a Hallmark Movie.

Home for the Holidays was inspired by my personal military service in the Air Force Reserves, knowing that many of my fellow airman can't make it home over the holiday season. This scene shows a surprise arrival home! The entire structure is gingerbread with fondant shiplap, gelatin sheet windows, nori paper roof and royal icing covered inverted ice cream cone trees. The snowman, reindeer, husband and wife are all gum paste. The house is visible all the way through from the sides.

Lucky the leprechaun was inspired by my vacation in Ireland. Skull, bust, and hat are all Gingerbread cookies. The face is covered in gingerbread clay and details are hand sculpted. I threw in some foil wrapped chocolate coins from his pot of gold.

Heidi's Gingerbread House. The gingerbread was made from scratch and is a tried and true recipe that I have perfected over the years. The stained glass windows are made from gummy bears and gummy worms baked into the dough. The light shining through the windows is an added treat! All of the decorations and the house are 100% edible. The house took 25-30 hours to complete. I added dormers and more bay windows to the design. Enjoy!

I was asked to make a replica of a house located in Kennebunk, Maine as a surprise for the owner. Everything I used is fully edible except for the lighting I placed on the interior of the house. The material used was homemade gingerbread, fondant, royal icing, silver mints ground and remelted for windows, marshmallows for hedges, ground graham crackers for ground cover, life savers for wreaths, confectionery sugar for snow dusting, ice cream cones for Christmas trees

This plane is a replica of the toy plane I had as a kid. My dad was a pilot and I loved to fly my very own plane. It is entirely made with white gingerbread dyed in festive colors for Christmas.

This blueprint for this house was designed by my gingerbread partner. Annually, we attempt to use different candy to give each house its own feel. Our banana chip sidewalk leads to our caramel front porch which is decorated with holly. The twenty eight windows are our take on stained glass. The roof is chocolate baking squares trimmed with red. Almond silvers cover the front peak. Coconut shavings cover the ground leading up to the three Christmas trees.

Gingerbread fireplace, tree and floor. Chair is made of RKT covered in fondant. Flames are melted Jolly Rancher candies