My 15 year old Daughter and I made this gingerbread house together we had a vision of candy land fun. We decided on a pink roof made out of fondant to make it stand out! We used a variety of candy to give it that fun sweet look. Jelly bean chimney and rock wall candy cane pillars and a sweat tart path With hand made wreaths and star and snowflake accents and 3 days of hard work we are both happy with the end result.

We took a trip to the mid-west this summer and were delighted by all the Ranch style homes we passed on the road.

This house was made with lots of piped frosting, marshmallow hay bales and fondant animals.

Inspired by the lighthouses of New England, this lighthouse has royal icing stone walls, chocolate rocks, gumdrop trees, and butterscotch candy windows.

My theme is that landlubbers get Captain Whitebeard mixed up with Santa Claus. He is an alternate reality of Santa. He returns loot and booty to his not so nice islanders once a year and this rowdy crew gets attacked by an underwater beast. They do end up defeating it and celebrate by busting out the rum! My gingerbread components include the kraken head, ship and retention pieces “underwater”. Outside the ship, the tentacles and pirates are fondant and gum paste. The water and gems are isomalt.

This is our 20th year using GingerBread By Design (and its original website) patterns. We decided on the Gable design, increasing pattern size by 2x. We used the 3rd layout choosing to caddie corner the two houses. We used fondant for the stone lined windows, a candy chocolate rock path, and lots of gingerbread men details. The glass as always is poured boiled sugar/corn syrup which we feel makes the warmest glow with the 100 fairy lights. The roof is made with Bordeaux cookies and jimmies.

Our snowman wanted to be like Santa but he got caught in the silo!!
We set out to create a colorful display that would delight children. The Barn was donated to a family that we "adopted" from our local Department of Social Services.

Wanted to do something whimsical this year. I used kisses, gum drops, chocolate candy drops, candy canes and fondant. Smoke stacks made of rock candy. Windows are gel sheets. The weather vanes on top of turret and front roof are make from rice paper, color printed on edible food color printer, then cut with Cricut machine. The court yard has gingerbread children ice skating and others watching from the balconies.

My three grandsons love to see my gingerbread creation each year so no matter the design it always gets called Grandma's House! Everything is edible except the smoke coming out of the chimney and the snowman's fishing pole.

This is our home in Baldwin City Kansas. EVERYTHING except the lights is edible. Stonework was carved using a Dremel and enhanced with food coloring and tinted royal icing mortar. The windows are isomalt and the shrubs, edible moss. The deck railing is thin gingerbread and squid ink pasta. The siding, roof, snow and figures are fondant. The 2 figures are my girls enjoying their favorite winter activities. The cardinals are in memory of my father and mother-in-law who passed recently.

My entry is a scaled down replica of the Nutcracker stage I made last year for a televised competition. I didn't get to finish all the planned details, so this is my completed vision. Clara is sleeping and dreaming of dancing with the Nutcracker prince and the snowflake ballerinas. The stage, trees, furniture, walkway, fireplace and nutcrackers are made from various colors of gingerbread. Figures and drapes are fondant, while the puzzle reindeer are gingerclay. Royal icing holds it all together!

House is made entirely of gingerbread with the edition of wafer paper windows . The gingerbread was baked at longer lengths of times to vary colors along with varying amounts of food gel . The wafer paper windows were painted with food gel, glycerin and powdered food color.

I'll be Home for Christmas
themed similar to my home
Using gingerbread, chocolate, cast sugar, gum paste, royal icing

Completely edible and decorated all 4 sides.
Gingerbread, Fondant, Royal Icing, and Chocolate.
All handmade no forms.

Inspired by Ron and Harry degnoming the Weasley's garden here is a wintery scene of the two outside of their house. Sour patch kids make the gnomes hiding around the garden and being thrown over the hedges decorated for Christmas. The Burrow stands at around 2 feet tall (complete with jelly bean chimney and cereal shingles) and is dusted in a recent snowfall.

This was definitely a family affair. We've been creating gingerbread houses since our 2 daughters were very small. (They are now in their 20's.)

We love dogs and we know how much they like to play. So, our fondant dogs are loving the slide we built that empties into a pool with their favorite balls waiting for them.
Ice Hockey has been a big part of our lives even though we live in California. So, we built an ice rink for everyone to enjoy!

Inspired by music and grand pianos. All edible. Gingerbread and Royal icing, edible marker

I’m inspired by the peaceful beauty of a country church. I used crushed hard candies for the stained glass windows, peppermint sticks for the pillars, chocolate candy rocks for the front steps and ice cream cones for the steeple and trees.

My husband and I spent the past four years building a greenhouse in our backyard. This gingerbread is a replica model for long, hard work.

Gingerbread, isomalt, fondant, wafer paper, icing sheets, edible lace, bucateli padta, titanium dioxide, food coloring

Santa's Workshop is dedicated to my three grandchildren, believers in Santa. It is a 360° display of Santa going over his naughty and nice list, Mrs. Claus making her gingerbread cookies, and the elves making the toys, all while the reindeer are having fun outside before the big day. It is made of gingerbread, fondant, isomalt, and royal icing. Everything on the display is 100% edible.

Carousel in the park. Candy Canes, fondant, coconut, royal icing.

Inspiration A beautiful church in CT . Coconut, royal icing, nonpareils, hard candies, gelatin windows to see the trees inside.

Gingerbread Cottage decorated with royal icing, fondant, coconut.

Love trains. Made with snickers, marshmallows, M&Ms, gum drops, chocolate bars.

We love candy and color and that inspired our house. We used everything ...Trix cereal, Good and Plenty, Spree, Candy Hearts, Gummies, Lollipops, Nerds, Gum Balls, Fruity Pebbles and edible paper flowers and butterflies to create this whimsical Gingerbread House.

The animals and figures are fondant and the trees are sugar/meringue powder with water.

We were inspired by an English cottage. We used chex cereal for a thatched roof. We used pretzels and jellybeans for logs and stones on the exteriors. We have a jelly bean chimney and we have gumdrops for Christmas lights.

This is the Moxon/Lapp 7th Annual Gingerbread House. Drew, age 8, decided that this year’s house should be Santa’s Workshop and Elf Village. Design, Engineering and construction was completed over several weekends. Windows are isomalt (much easier than jolly ranchers). Both family’s then get together for dinner and the kids decorate and eat candy until they loose their ability to focus because of a candy coma. The house is then taken to school and shared with all the classes.

We had a group of people who worked on this house. They ranged in age from 9 to 60 years. Everyone seemed to agree that lots of different candies was the best option. The unifying factor was color and white frosting for snow.

One of the most unusual choices was to use strips of gum attached to the window to mimic curtains being blown by the wind.

Inspired by Sonny Lee Robinson, this is my third attempt and second successful gingerbread house construction. Used Sugar Geek gingerbread recipe and candy canes, ribbon candy, starlights, royal icing, gumballs, gumdrops, candy sticks, lollipops, melted candy, fondant, skittles, it is 3 stories and 31” high.

When I saw the Cal Young Gingerbread template on this site, I knew I had to use it because there is a house EXACTLY like this in my neighborhood.

But the one we created has a lot more candy, calories and color than the one down the street!

The Gingerbread House.
The gingerbread was made from scratch and is a tried and true recipe that Chef Jim has 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 are 100% edible. The house took 25-30 hours to complete.

Constructed by;
Chef Jim Tinkham
CEC.,ACE.,CCA.,AAC
EXECUTIVE CHEF
FRESH IDEAS @
WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE

Santa and Mrs. claus thought it be nice to have some downtime before Christmas Eve and invited the natives to have a little fun. The reindeer are resting up for the big night so the polar bears were exited to pull the elves sleighs in a race while the penguins race on the ice. Polar express brings spectators to observe this magical moment.

Inspired by Tower bridge in London, this piece is made of gingerbread. The river is food coloring, corn syrup and isomalt. The boat is pastillage and a tall gelatin sail.

Mr. GRINCH, the sack, and "wood" floor are made with Gingerbread. Basically I used mixing bowls to bake hemispheres and glued them together with royal icing. The details of the grinch (everything green) is made with ginger clay. The eyes are isomalt. Everything red, the food, and the outside of the sack is fondant. 100% edible.

This gingerbread scene imagines Santa enjoying California's mountains amidst native flora and fauna. Rice Krispie Treats & nut brittle sandwiched by contoured gingerbread slabs create the mountain slope; draped Slaps tamarind candy forms a waterfall. Chocolate-coated pretzel rods & Rice Krispie Treats with rosemary branches dipped in royal icing make a majestic tree. Animals are shaped from molding chocolate and fondant. Santa's cabin boasts Big Red gum, Rainbow Rips and Milky Matcha Pocky sticks

This is the home of Santa and Mrs. Claus at the North Pole. Santa is relaxing and preparing to make his deliveries. For this display we attempted to use up our supply of candy, including items such as candy canes, licorice, edible snowflakes, hard candies, spice drops, fondant for making reindeers and sleigh. Hoping we made good use of our candy!

Candy factory that grows candy on the tree then the factory makes the big candy into smaller candies. For the design I found a pretty mandala dots design that reminded me of little candies and then kept finding more for each side of the buildings. I also turned my original design of a clock tower into and stained glass tower.
I just love how colorful and bright this turned out and the intricacies of the designs.

The penguins and gingerbread folks have come together to enjoy all their favorite holiday activities! A dip in the hot tub, exploring the Northern light geode cavern, climbing the rock candy wall, ice sculpting w/ a tiny chainsaw and peeping out the windows to take in all the holiday fun. Windows, hot tub and ice sculpture are isomalt, the geode cavern/rock wall are dyed rock candy. Shingles are fondant. All characters are Wilton sugar decorations. Happy Holidays!

My theme was log house
Christmas tree cake decoration
Frosting
Pretzels
Pineapple jolly ranchers
Necco wafers
Peppermint wafers
Oreos
Warheads sour strips
Gum drops

All aboard the Gingerbread Express, where dreams come to life in the sweetest way and be transported to an enchanting era of grandeur and delight. A whimsical interpretation of the historic Queen Anne-style train station nestled in the charming town of Oakland, MD. The display features a G gauge locomotive, chugging along the tracks, emitting tantalizing puffs of gingerbread-scented smoke. Hope you enjoy as your senses are charmed by the enchanting aroma and the joyous spirit of the holidays!

This year I created a Forest display with animals. I live in the Boreal Forest and adore everything about it. I created a scene that I thought would be magical.
The house has fondant and royal icing covering it. The spruce trees are ice cream cones with icing piped on them. The birch trees are big pretzel sticks covered in royal icing and noodles for the branches.
The Woodland animals are made out of fondant and then painted.
This was a fun piece to create. Happy to share with you all.

This castle is a reimagining of Cinderella’s Castle done in blue, white, silver and lavender. It has about 250 pieces of gingerbread and lots of candy pearls. We baked the round towers on wooden dowels and used mini ice cream cones for the turrets. The moat is edible gel lined with candy rocks. The courtyard pavers and the “bricks” on the walls are gum.

Used sliced almonds for the walkway and fondant for the mugs of hot cocoa

I was trying to create an old fashion family bakery. The house is made completely from gingerbread with isomalt windows. The roof is mad out of candy. Trees are covered ice cream cones! Lights were wired inside of the house to illuminate the windows, bakery and Christmas tree. Bakery items were made out of fondant and gingerbread. It was a fun build!! Merry Christmas to all!

Santa’s reindeer have been arrested for speeding in the tiny town of Grumpy Town. Sant is worried he doesn’t have the money to pay their fines and get the out in time to deliver all the gifts . The reindeer have worn themselves out trying to figure out how to escape

Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, Santa is checking his book of good girls and boys and using the globe for his route on Christmas Eve while outside some of his elves play in the snow and with the animals. Used gingerbread, mini M&M's, fondant, royal icing, gum paste, and gummy bears.

This gingerbread house is loosely based on my favorite home in my neighborhood. It is made with construction grade gingerbread with gingerclay bricks and roof shingles. All the shingles and bricks were applied individually. It was constructed using royal icing, and the windows are isomalt on the main structure and gelatin in the white sunroom. The landscaping is shaped rice treats rolled in royal icing and dried parsley. It is 100% edible with the exception of the lighting.

Encanto Disney movie.

The inspiration for my house comes from the traditional Christmas Eve when Santa has arrived to deliver his gift's. My house is 2’ x 2’ and is 2 1/2 feet tall made of gingerbread. The roof is made from wheat thin crackers. I used Milano cookies for the benches, as well as Rolo’s for their legs. The porch is made of graham crackers and pretzels.
Windows are made of isomalt and trimmed with an assortment of candies. Trees are made from sugar cones. The wood pow is made from pretzel rods.