Put your baking skills and creativity to work in the Mark Twain Museum’s Annual Gingerbread Contest and Display! Sponsored by Hannibal’s County Market and Walmart. You won’t want to miss the delectable display of Gingerbread Houses in the Museum Gallery Window during the Holiday Season and vote on your favorites during the Victorian Festival of Christmas’ Living Windows.

Mark your calendar for the 11th Annual Gingerbread Festival, coming December 8-10, 2023!

Enter the 2023 Georgia Festival of Trees’ Christmas Gingerbread decorating competition. Your creation will directly impact the community by raising essential funds to donate to organizations working to end human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of youth and women in Georgia. https://gafestivaloftrees.org/donor/gingerbread/

The 2nd Annual Bottoms Up Avon Winterfest 2023 is a fundraising event to support our Bottoms Up Patient/Family Support Funds and Bottoms Up Mental Health and Care Package Programs. Proceeds from this event will be in support of Connecticut Children's Gastroenterology Department and the Digestive Health Center at Hartford Hospital all serving the Farmington Valley as well as Hartford County.

Culinary architects are invited to create incredible edible wonderlands for the 24th Annual Parade of Gingerbread Homes, December 2 - 30, 2023. Only 12 architects will be selected, so do not delay in registering.

SAVE THE DATES - Wednesday, December 6, 2023 or Thursday, December 7, 2023 The 30th Annual Epilepsy Foundation of San Diego County’s Gingerbread City, San Diego’s premier holiday philanthropic event and nationally recognized gingerbread competition.

This website Template Maker provides the ability to break down most geometrical shapes into flat objects to see how the shaped "box" is constructed. This site would be great tool if attempting to create a unique shape in gingerbread, such a polygonal pyramid (for a gingerbread tower or gazebo) or any other unique shape. https://www.templatemaker.nl/en/

Follow Hooked on Gingerbread through this video series to learn how to build a large gingerbread building for a gingerbread competition -- the apartment building from the TV show "Friends". Video 1 - Project intro; Gingerbread Foam Board Patterns - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=845y516y2QM Video 2 - Gingerbread Project baseboard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qkxoZ8sIYw Video 3 - Making silicone molds for gingerbread - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgQFRq0K6PI Video 4 - Making, Cutting and Baking Construction Grade Gingerbread - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5WtTuPJS1M Video 5 - Bricking with Gingerbread - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxRgpDnCj80 Video 6 – Isomalt windows - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH6w-f8XX9k Video 7 – Ginger Flour and Ginger Clay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E33CmhG3WM Video 8 – Tylose glue and Royal icing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8t5z19m15Y Video 9 - Putting up Walls, making neon signs and awning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXaUmF7vRW0 Video 10 - 2nd Floor moldings; putting up floors 2 and 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR0zLVK-oO0

A cute video of making a barn gingerbread house!

This is a very simple tutorial on decorating a Gingerbread House.

This is a very simple tutorial on decorating a Gingerbread House. How to make Gingerbread House.

The 31st Annual National Gingerbread House Competition will be held in November 2023. Visit the website below for more information. https://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/asheville-grove-park/things-to-do/gingerbread/national-gingerbread-competition