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.

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

Gingerbread and royal icing, with crushed hard candy windows.

Gingerbread and royal icing.

This is a smaller design than I usually do. I work at a hospital in Calgary, and because of the covid pandemic, we don't have a gingerbread competition like we traditionally do. I still wanted to do something, so I opted to make this Santa Claus Train - all from gingerbread I baked from scratch. The train cars are also gingerbread, loaded with presents for all the good little boys and girls. It's brought a lot of joy to my little corner of the hospital. Thanks for your consideration.

Winter Cabin with warm window lighting, chocolate rock, mint cookie shingles, pretzel shutters, tootsie roll chimney, glass candy river and pond, fondant snow man and ducks, shrubbery of rice crispy cereal.

This year I wanted to do a gingerbread village, but I didnt know where in my house I could put it without the pets getting to it. I looked at my wondow box coffee table and inspiatuon struck! There is a church, bakery, bookstore, flower shop/greenhouse, post office, and bridge made all with edible materials. We used, isomalt, gelatin sheets, and hard candies for the windows, isomalt also for the pond. We used wafters, pretzels, candy spheres, gumpdrops, hard candy, candy sticks for decorations.

I love lighthouses and tried my hand at another variation this year. I wanted a beautiful display with muted colors that complimented my dining room. The wreath was piped onto parchment and laid to dry on the base so it was curved and snug against the fondant. I really enjoy the simplicity of the design!

Our house was based on the GBD Ivy House Template. Fondant molds were used to create the brick facade, stone chimney and wood grain on the front door. 3 Ginger kiddos are taking a run down the sledding hill out front and Santa's at the top of the chimney while 4 reindeer take a rest on the porch roof. The shingles are individually cut fondant and all windows are crushed butter scotch decorated with candy holly. Royal icing Xmas trees and a candy pond complete this very merry gingerbread scene.

I used starlight mints for the house itself. The sidewalk is mini M&M’s and the trees are ice cream cones and the shrubs are marshmallows. It’s held together with royal icing. Gum drops adorn the roof and the doors are Hershey chocolate bars

Everything is edible on this Gingerbread Estate... even the butterflies. The snowmen, trees and mailbox are made from a sugar/eggwhite mixture. The Dalmatian is fondant. The bridge and structures are all gingerbread

Entry for annual Childrens hospital fund raiser , theme was Mistletoe Mountain Christmas.

Based on Tanglewood Conservatory and first attempt at using gelatin sheets as a window medium for a more airy feel.

The wonder and joy of Christmas felt as a child recreated to bring the magic back to my now older soul. The windows and brick are spray painted with food coloring, air heads made the ice rink, gum drop and marshmallow penguin, coconut flakes for snow, crushed candy cane path and air head tree and scarf for the gingerbread man.

Inspired by home I drove past in Carthage, TX all my life. I was part of the Book Club’s Home Tour this year and had 250 strangers walk through my home. Many recognized the house.

I wanted a log cabin and as I only had a kit I did not want to cover it with anything to make it heavy so I used my new Zeoto Pen to do all the logs and wood work on this piece the decoration around the windows is also done with my Zeoto Pen, the doors are done in a Norwegian design, Norwegian heritage. Home popped popcorn for snow around the base and powdered sugar dusted roof. Isomalt windows in sides of house tinted Artisan Accents Blue, glued with isomalt. Accents Satin Ice.

The house measures 24 L x 13 W x 16 H, weighing approximately 40lbs. It took 9 batches of dough which comes out to 45 cups of flour, 9 cups of shortening, 9 cups of sugar, 9 cups of molasses, 1/2 cup of cinnamon, 1/2 cup of ginger, 1/4 cup of ground cloves, 10 lbs of confectioners sugar. The 28 windows and 56 shutters are made out of fondant. The house includes lights and a music box that plays “White Christmas.”

The spirals on the house were hand-curled after the strips of color had been separated from a candy called Sour Rainbow belts. Santa's canoe was fashioned from 2 ice cream cones. The animals, Santa and elf are all fondant

I used my my favorite Tahitian island, Huahine, as my inspiration. For my huts, I used Gingerbread (my own pattern), Fondant, Cinnamon sticks and Frosted Mini-Wheats. My Palm trees were constructed with candy canes and fondant. My ocean was Simi isomalt and food coloring.

Luv Shack just came out of the air. We had so much fun creating the quintessential Gingerbread and Candy shack, just sisters having fun. I dreamt about the light posts (candy cane with Dum Dum lollipops circled with red licorice). So much fun to create and took First Prize M, Amateur in our Gingerbread Ball / Gingerbread Competition Contest on December 3, 2021 in Long Branch, NJ. The Luv Shack is currently being enjoyed by Fran’s 3 year old granddaughter m, Kira. So much fun!

I enjoy making gingerbread creations that kids like to see.
This year's entry is a ship on top of a coral reef with skeletons. Inspired by "The Curse of the Black Pearl"
The Ship is out of Gingerbread.
Masts are large pretzel rods.
Sails are rice paper treated with Dr. Pepper.
Ropes are from pasta.
The reef is made out of sugar crystals, graham crackers, melted chocolate, scrapes. Sand is out of crumbs.
Skeletons, Jack & swords, etc. are made out of gum paste/fondant.

Our Gingerbread Advent Calendar helped extend the Christmas celebration for the entire month of December! Complete with 24 mini houses, a Santa snow globe, and a forest on top, this edible interactive calendar was made with gingerbread, royal icing, and isomalt.

226 pieces of gingerbread, using two different colors. The 206 windows are melted gummy bears with various candies including unicorn horns, stars, diamonds and gumboils. There are 64 pieces of Wrought Iron made with icing as well and the various colors used all over the project. It is 100% edible with the exception of the lights inside.

I wanted to use a different medium for details this year, so I chose isomalt. I got an edible transfer for the stained glass window, used gumpaste for the siding and shingles, and did isomalt casted trees. The ivy on the chimneys is pulled isomalt, with individual leaves made using a leaf mold. For the lamppost, I did an isomalt blown bubble, and pulled isomalt flames for the fire. The last thing I added was the isomalt snowman.

This was decorated by three young architects. When we started to assemble the parts, the pattern didn't fit together correctly. But, their expertise in working with models of all kinds throughout their college years was invaluable and they came up with solutions that made it all work out.

I used sliced almonds for the roof, found tiny cookie cutter to make gingerbread animals, used an acrylic fish bowl for the globe.

I was inspired to create this display because I have horses and love the look of a horse pulling a sleigh. The horse and sleigh as well as the Scotties and trees are gingerbread covered in Royal Icing. I used a small amount of black licorice in the harness and some watermelon candy canes as the shafts of the sleigh. The trees have some sanding sugar and candy sprinkles on them.

My thought was a small bakery out in the country. The materials are gingerbread, the fence is royal icing, and I have used white beans as small stones on the building. Simple but sweet.

This gingerbread house is inspired by the Caldwell Mansion in Chatham, IL. As usual, all the decorations are various types of candy, including my signature black cats by the front door and on the roof of the tower.

My theme this year was all about What Santa would do on summer vacation. I decided it should be a quiet holiday at a cozy English cottage where he could bake, do a little gardening and Mrs. Claus could work on her art. Plenty of time to recharge for another season of toy making. the flowers were inspired by my moms love of flowers. The birds were inspired by my husbands new interest in bird watching. And honored my dad by using his favorite cereal in the thatch.

This lighthouse sits on the edge of Mystic Ocean and shows the way for lost souls of the ocean. It is made of gingerbread and painted with food coloring. The light and windows are made from gelatin. Royal icing is the glue what holds it all together. The sand at the base is ground cookies.

The Kringles settle down by the fire at their favorite campsite when up pops a fellow traveler. They offer the customary sugared treat to their visitor, while a curious rabbit observes unnoticed. Blue Birds peck at seeds on the snowy rooftop. Inside a pair of elves are engrossed in a game of chess while baked goods cool on the windowsill. Prancer and Rudolph graze nearby under a golden partridge in a “pear tree”.

My neighbor and I planned a gingerbread party for our kids this year. I originally planned to do the cookies and leave the houses for the kids. On a whim I shyly asked my neighbor if she could bake extra house pieces for me, and I was the only adult doing one! I bought enough candy for us to do houses for the next few years! It's now my favorite holiday activity.

This is an original gingerbread house template created by me inspired by a picture of a house I found on the internet. The rock and bricks are made with molded fondant and painted with petal dust. The roof is sticks of gum cut to various sizes and also painted with petal dust for a realistic look. The trees are inverted ice cream cones piped with buttercream frosting. The windows are made with homemade candy poured into the windows. Everything was glued together with royal icing.

The Fir Sure Christmas Tree Farm was “Rooted in love”! The template is homemade, and everything is edible including the gelatin sheet windows.

Christmas on the Beach - inspired by the Southern Caribbean's colors, activities, accommodations, & water. Brown sugar sand & colored royal frosting, stained glass windows and sea made from Jolly Ranchers, skylights on the roof, elf popping out of the chimney, life preservers for wreaths, gummy bears around a roaring campfire and extra firewood, beach balls, surfboards, beach towel, 2 dogs with their water bowl frolicking before the beachfront hotel, cabins weathered by sand, salt and wind.

This was inspired by my love of fairy tales and woodlands. Please enjoy and watch out for the mice!

My theme is an inspiration from my Grandchildren, which call me Meme. I love to bake and many years have dreamed of opening my own bakery. So this is my Dream Bakery. An old brick building, a Display case full of beautiful Deserts and a store full of Happy faces. All figures are made with royal icing. The windows gelatin sheets, fondant used as well, and the rest gingerbread.

Sadly we are in lockdown once again. Luckily I have some time to create a little gingerbread house. Hopefully my granddaughters will be able to take it apart and eat it!

With 3rd wave of Covid, I needed something fun and playful . Structural gingerbread dough recipe. Entirely edible. Assorted sugar candy, gumballs, candy canes, royal icing, sand sugar and crystal sugar, sugar wafers, marzipan figures( bought)