This has everything you would expect to find at Santa's Palace. A huge garden in the back, jousting knights on reindeer, trolls playing cards and of course, Santa at the main gate!

My family and I have had the tradition of making gingerbread houses every year since I can remember. My sister, cousins, and I all grew up with this tradition, eagerly await our gingerbread house day each year, and are introducing our own children to this tradition. So many beautiful houses have been born out of this tradition, but what’s even more beautiful are the memories and celebration of family.

My inspiration for this entry was my love of dogs, and my sense of adventure..dog sledding! I used Pop Tarts for many items, and handmade my people from pastiallage..an edible clay. I used Reese's mini cups for the planters of the poinsettia, gum for the dog harnesses. I used pretzels for the logs on the porch. I made rock candy 'ice' along the road.

My inspiration for this creation was a friend who sells mushrooms. I had made him a gingerbread mushroom house before and I wanted to make one to compete with. I made a garden with a family as part of the creation. Everyone is trying to keep up the farm. I also added my two pets at the time..a chow chow dog and my black kitty on the pumpkins in the cart. I used pastiallage to make the people, vegetables and garden tools. I used candy pumpkins, I made the edging for the door w/ choc. Stones

My inspiration was from beautiful weathered barns and old rustic trucks. This was my first attempt at anything with fondant. The truck and tractor are made from rice Krispy and almond bark and fondant. The large tree stump is chocolate gum paste. The sap on the tree is molasses. The pathway is pecan nougat. Bushes are organic oregano and the grass are individually placed blades of grass( placed individually with tweezers) the “ leaves” blowing around are dried shallots.

I used the Pearl Mansion pattern this year. Simple and clean was my theme this year. Glass windows as always made by pouring melted sugar. Thanks to my daughter for her steady hands with icing lines.

A castle to honor past Queen Elizabeth complete with dragons and a horse drawn carriage. Long live the memory of the queen!

Homestead Kitchen & Bakery is my favorite local place to eat.

It took over 150 hours and 2 months to create. Everything is edible.

Details include a mini Gingy house, pies, donuts, and cookies, all created with fondant. The brick texture was done by hand prior to baking. Stonework detail was created using a dremel, then dry brushing with food color, & finished with tinted icing mortar. The windows are isomalt.

My entry was inspired by Scooby Doo, the theme for my granddaughter’s 3rd birthday! A runaway elf is hiding in the Mystery Mansion and the gang is searching for him.

The structure is made from colored and imprinted gingerbread, painted with food coloring after baking, to brighten the colors. Interior walls are painted with royal icing. Sugar lace curtains adorn isomalt windows, while trim, figures and other details are combos of ginger clay, fondant, rice cereal treats, pasta, and royal icing.

The 1922 Bank and school buildings in Auburntown, Tennessee.
All buildings are gingerbread. Grinch, Santa, Reindeer, Elf, garland, bows are modeling chocolate. Interior decorations are fondant. Windows are gelatin sheets. Wallpaper in back room is wafer paper.
The bank building is now used at the branch library. The Auburn Grammar School was closed this past semester and sold. The Grinch is stealing the tree. Santa is mad. The Elf is trying to keep it inside.

This house was inspired from our first home and the joy our children had on a snow day from school. Entirely edible, the display includes gingerbread cookie, modeling chocolate, rice cereal treats, fondant, sugar glass/ice and royal icing. This is my first gingerbread house attempt.

This diorama is made of 7 hand cut panels, 7 spacers panels and three side panels . The only non gingerbread pieces are the stems on the flowers (pasta ) and the sugar crystals to make the background . The animals and flowers are made of gingerbread pastillage .The wood is made by graining it with a impression mat painting it with food gel and baking it then sanding it

This fun Christmas train is celebrated by an adorable bunch of fondant Gnomes! It is lined with candy holly & berries & features a puffing smokestack trimmed with gold icing & sprinkles & pistons from Lifesavers. The tree is already for Christmas with candy balls & topped with a mini gold star. Gold icing & chocolate covered balls highlight the wheels. Gnomes wish you a Merry Christmas made from pretzel logs. A train track of black licorice & mini fur trees complete this jolly winter scene.

Gnomes enjoying a warmer winter! The water is all home made from sugar and corn syrup! All of the fondant is also homemade (powdered sugar and marshmallows!)

Everything on my piece is gingerbread except for the gelatin water. The fish in the water is modeling chocolate. The tree is gingerbread with celery strings and wafer paper leaves. The 500+ rocks are all gingerbread.

“The Grand Pink Lady” is a tribute to my sister and all women that have are are battling breast cancer. Over 100 hours of live went into this Victorian beauty. Everything is edible and handmade. The tower and tower roof are Rice Krispies treats and enrobed in handcrafted fondant stones. Enjoy!

The holiday lantern is all gingerbread and royal icing. It is all edible except the base and there is a tealight inside.

Made of gingerbread with royal icing. Inside are trees in the background and open view of a house with fireplace and stockings hanging on the fireplace. Glass is melted candy. There are twinkle lights imbedded.

This house just feels like Christmas to me. The roof is iced shredded wheat. The windows of the sun room are gelatin sheets. The big tree outside is rice crispness. There's a candy came tree in one room. All of the gifts are edibles. There's a children's playground and a wood conf station.

My inspiration is my Uncle Ralph’s farm in Bowmanville, Ontario

The thatched roof is frosted mini wheats. I used cherry sour belts for the siding, chocolate rocks for the chimney and cinnamon sticks for the log pile. The windows are gelatin sheets. While the shrubs close to the house are spearmint leaves, the trees in the yard are stacked sugar ice cream cones covered in Royal icing.

I did all house fronts this year plus a church for the top of the piece. It’s mounted on a rotating board for ease in viewing. All structures are drawn and created by myself. I used gingerbread, fondant, royal icing and various candies. There are mini lights to back light the piece.

I used the gingerbread train pattern this year. The train is made from gingerbread and the wheels from biscuits. The bubble fuel is candy and the railway tracks are KitKats. Santa and Mrs Claus and Christmas Tree Elf are made from fondant. The snow is desiccated coconut.

The Swiss family tree house is made of gingerbread with fondant roof thatching. Rolled cookies are used as well as candy cigarettes used as spindles. Cinnamon sticks for ladders to the side houses. Gingerbread and fondant to create the piano and pumpkin inside the main house. Fondant leaves, and coconut grass.

This is our gingerbread treehouse, we wanted to do something unique, yet fun and feel like we captured that.

My gingerbread house is made of gingerbread, icing, nuts, candy, fondant, and sugar glass. I love working on the tiny details to tell a story.

Greenhouse has 2 dogs & 1 cat. Hand crafted wreaths, bows and many fondant flowers. Soreness with gelatin windows.

This is a replica of my grandparents 100 yr old home. I’ve always wanted to rebuild their home as a gingerbread house seeing his my grandfather built this house with his own two hands.

I used a pattern from the Gingerbread Exchange but modified it, adding a balcony and moving the side entry to the center of the house. This beautiful 2-story home is constructed of gingerbread, the windows are crushed, melted butterscotches, the lap siding is strips of sugar sheets, and the roof tiles are chocolate melts. The columns are large Peppermint sticks and the delicate balcony railings were made from Royal Icing. Inside, the foyer is wallpapered, carpeted and furnished.

I created this original gingerbread house design, inspired by the lovely, Victorian homes scattered across downtown Prescott, Arizona. This 2-story house is constructed out of gingerbread, with floated Royal icing walls, gelatin sheet window panes, and exquisite embellishments molded out of gum paste. On the green lawn of dyed, crushed coconut there are cute, Easter bunnies at play and under a lovely, flowering tree there’s a table set for afternoon tea.

My theme was inspired by a beautiful country church on a snowy evening. I wanted to capture the peace and stillness of the church. I used peppermint sticks for the columns, chocolate “stones” for the stonework, and gingerbread cookies for the trees and deer.

My inspiration was Encanto. I used construction gingerbread, ginger clay to create the stucco effect. I used modeling chocolate/fondant to make the shingles. I used gum paste and fondant to make the many,many roses. I made the windows out of gelatin with an impression mat.

Nice mix of chocolate and Christmas candy

A mix of all kinds of chocolate and candy board is 32 inches long

FIRST TIME GINGERBREAD HOUSE MAKER. CREATED THIS BAKERY THEMED DISPLAY FOR A LOCAL SILENT AUCTION FUNDRAISER. COMPLETELY EDIBLE EXCEPT FOR BASE AND INTERIOR LIGHTS. HAD SO MUCH FUN, EVEN DURING THE CHALLENGES!!! MOSTLY GINGERBREAD AND ROYAL ICING WAS USED FOR THIS PROJECT, ALONG WITH ROOTBEER CANDYCANES (window boxes) LITTLE MARSHMALLOW TREES (chimney smoke) AND ROUND CANDY SPRINKLES (roof top, window boxes and wreath) OTHER COOKIES, CHOCOLATE AND CANDIES USED FOR THE BAKERY WINDOW DISPLAY GOODS

I imagined what would happen if our adopted terrier created a gingerbread dog house. Everything, including her "kibble" is made from baked gingerbread, except for the fondant icing on the little house. It is currently on display at the Jacksonville Historical Society's 20th Gingerbread Extravaganza.

Gingerbread Bakery was constructed using a gingerbread construction recipe. The theme is an tailored by my home-based business of the same name. This bakery took 58 hours from templates to sprinkling with “snow”. Royal icing was used as glue. Gelatin sheets are the windows. Trees are sugar cones piped with royal icing. Awnings are several layers of royal icing allowed to dry between layers.

Inspired by, and in memory of, the Queen of England. History was made this year with her passing and I wanted to honor her. Balmoral is says to be her favorite residence.

Plus, I’ve always wanted to build a castle!

Named after the song “somewhere in my memory” from the movie “home alone”..
My inspiration for this house was from my longtime love of German Architecture of homes
In Bavarian which is traditional Western Germany. Where they have the most whimsical homes , as if in another world .. Like a Fairytale in another land.

This is an annual gingerbread house build we have done for 20+ years. We now invite the our neighbors kids to help design, bake and decorate. This year they chose to honor Queen Elizabeth with a liberal recreation of her castle. The kids are 11 and 9 and eat as much candy as they put on the house.

A sparkly glittery home fit for a fairy made with 100% gingerbread construction, royal icing, fondant, assorted candies, and wafer paper snow. And lots of edible glitter and luster dust.

My inspiration was the fairy illiustrations of Arthur Rackham. I used mostly royal icing, which I dyed for the mushroom tops and pond. For the decorations on the house I used fruity strip gum, sprinkles, and chocolate covered sunflower seeds. Jolly ranchers were melted in the windows. The fairy figurine is the only thing not made of gingerbread or candy.

Traditional gingerbread house using lucky stripe doors, spearmint leaves buses, Christmas trees are piped over ice cream cones and presents are foil covered chocolate all edible.

Shredded wheat makes the thatched roof and black twizzlers make the beams.

All edible (including edible bugs) raffled off for a fundraiser.

I’m working on Christmas Day so I made this gingerbread house with drunk snowmen and edible tinsel on my tree. I’m in Australia so the roof almost collapsed as I put it on because of the humidity.

The theme of this display is Santa vs Jack Frost and they are having a sled race to see who is the fastest at the North Pole! Santa is pulling ahead at the finsh line but he better watch out for Jack's icy tricks! The trees and the sleds are made from gingerbread and the characters are made from fondant. The sleds were covered with fondant with royal icing details and the trees were piped with royal icing and then stacked with more icing. Jack's icy powers were made from white chocolate.

Inspired by our foreign exchange student from Madrid, Spain, I created this traditional-style Spanish country house. Snow is not normal in Spain so white icing was out. I used black icing for the iron work and brown icing for construction. The candy is all standard except the Christmas lights, which I got from Walmart. The Spanish roof tiles are Hot Tamales candy. The courtyard fountain is filled with melted blue Jolly Ranchers. The stained glass windows are also Jolly Ranchers of various colors

This gingerbread house was inspired by the architecture of a 1920s home. Made with gingerbread, royal icing, pumpkin seeds (chimney), and gelatin sheets (windows). I wanted to create a classic, cozy looking gingerbread house to display on my counter all winter long!

I love old churches and chapels (real photography) with snowy scenes. It’s very peaceful to me.
We made our own template. I used jolly ranchers, powdered sugar for the snow. Cinnamon red hots, green colored sprinkles for the wreath. Live red cedar pieces for garland around the front door and in the windows. Sugar ice cream cones piped with royal frosting. I used a drinking glass with a textured design for the front door and used a cake pen to enhance the design.

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Construction grade gingerbread. Isomalt and royal icing to put together and decorate. Fondant accents and edible art paints to color the ornaments. Christmas themed Jimmie’s, juju beans, Reese’s peanut butter cups and gumpaste for all the additional accents and decorations. Wafer paper steamed and shaped for the tissue paper in the gift box and then edges painted with edible art paints .

The St. Andrews Gingerbread House is made from scratch and is a tried & true recipe that I have perfected over the 25 years of making gingerbread houses.
The stained-glass windows are made from gummy bears that are baked right into the dough!
The lights shining through the windows is an added treat!!
All decorations are 100% edible. The house took 25-30 hours to complete over a 10-day span.