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.

Yabba Dabba Do is made using gingerbread fondant and crushed gingerbread and edible fabric . The car is made with gingerbread the characters are rice cereal treats and fondant the top is edible fabric and the board was covered with crushed gingerbread and sugar sprinkles

Welcome to Victorian Village! Hannah's House comes to life from 1880 to the 2022 Christmas Season. Three-feet of Tasty Deliciousness filled with Seven Generations Christmas-past and into the Future. Merry Christmas to All and to All a Good Night!

Winter is here. Our pair of cardinals have come home to roost and cuddle through the cold months in their home filled with warm nests.

The structure of this piece is entirely gingerbread, covered with royal icing. Inside, the nests are made of dried pasta. The birds are a mix of pastillage and rice crispies. The "bird seed" is a mix of multi-colored quinoa, poppyseeds, sunflower seeds.

This gingerbread creation was created by my daughter. It depicts some of the places and things she did at a camp she attended this past summer. There is the Grotto where they had a nightly bonfire with all campers, the challenge wall she got to climb, archery, and of course her bunk. Each unit has three-sided tree house-type structures with bunk beds. She used leftover parade candy for some of the decorative details.

The National Museum of Gingerbread showcases great gingerbread builds. It is 100% gingerbread structure with 37 art pieces. Some are printed with edible ink on icing sheets. Others are laser etched into gingerbread and hand painted. Nicholas Lodge’s portrait represents the influence he has had in the gingerbread world. A cobblestone road represents the terrifying journey every piece makes to a competition. In the theater, Food Network’s Gingerbread Giants is playing.

This is inspired by the traditional Hanok (한옥) which was a home built in the 14th century during the Joseon Dynasty.

Simple construction with my own templates.
This was inspired by Jaconde's Baking.

Our inspiration was the mid-century Case Study houses of Los Angeles. Architects like Richard Neutra, Ray and Charles Eames, and Frank Lloyd Wright experimented with this style.

Our house used chocolate rocks for the roof, plantain chips and cinnamon bark in the garden, gelatin sheets for the glass doors and windows and chocolate bars for the brickwork.

The house was given to a family that we sponsored as part of the Department of Social Services "Adopt-a Family" holiday program.

This is a holiday themed, German Christmas pyramid. It’s %100 edible and about %98 gingerbread/ gingerclay! It was a challenge to make structurally but I am pleased with how it turned out!

I made it for the first time with a kit and it’s fully edible. Apart from kit items I used few m and m’s, cereal for tree, sugar syrup for sticking, waffle cone for base of Christmas tree, marshmallows, pretzels. Made it with my kids. It was fun project, got inspired by all the wonderful creative people in this group. Planning to continue this as a tradition from now on.

Chair made of rice cereal treats covered in fondant. Baby under the tree is fondant

Join Fred, Barney and their families, as they celebrate a Bedrock Christmas!
The Flintstones and Rubbles' houses are gingerbread, made from templates I designed myself. The mailboxes and Christmas tree are also gingerbread. I used m & m's, gum drops, candy sprinkles and a whole host of candies to decorate the scene. Fred's car is gingerbread and fondant. Their driveways are crushed walnuts. Hope you enjoy this festive scene as much as I did to make it. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

This is a different gingerbread design than I have used in the past. I love incorporating water features into my designs so this mill wheel was perfect. Necco candies were used for path and patio. Cereal marshmallow treats were used for shrubs. Tootsie rolls were used for wood pile. Chocolate pebbles were used for fence pillars and river bank. Triscuts were used for shingles. Edible glass was used for windows and the river. My daughter and I had a lot of fun!

This year's house is based on the Westfir template and features 8 penguins having a Christmas party on the lake. Their couch and pillows are made of gum paste, the lake is jolly ranchers. All house windows are crushed butterscotch. Piping details and Christmas trees are royal icing. All sugar decorations are form Wilton. Shingles are hand cut fondant. The snow man is sculpted gum paste colored with edible markers. :)

My interpretation of the Army Corps of Engineers castle! I used the gold medallion logo as my inspiration and experimented with painting the structure in edible metallic paint. The 8-sided towers are 12" tall and gelatin sheets are used throughout as windows. This was a difficult project to finish due to the unexpected loss of an employee, but I will keep this in my office at the Army Corps in her honor!

I used mainly construction gingerbread, royal icing, and fondant to make this dollhouse. I found a template online for a formboard dollhouse and modified it for gingerbread. The roof is tiled with cinnamon cereal and the chimney and foundation are covered with mixed nuts. Most of the dollhouse furniture is made from gingerbread and covered with royal icing or fondant. The bedspread and chair throw are made from edible fabric. Enjoy!!

Inspired by a two story dollhouse, this structure has both front and back views the backside is a 2floor furnished house complete with gingerbread furniture.

Reimagined Van Gogh’s view of the village of Saint-Remy under a starry night within a carriage lantern. Background created from melted candy and the village rests on a pavlova. Gelatin sheets form the windows, with candy stars above and the top is finished off with a handmade gingerbread chocolate tree.

This Village is full of happy Gingerbread men/women rocking it out around the Christmas Tree. Everything is made out of Gingerbread, fondant, and icing sugar. All edible. This piece is very festive and I hope it brings everyone joy this holiday season 🎄❤️💚

My piece was inspired by a painted wood reindeer my mom created while I was young that made an appearance every Christmas. With my gingerbread replica, I sought to bring a sense of nostalgia with traditional decorative piping and candy, but used in a more non conventional way. Licorice rope give more dimension to the fondant bow and sour power straws create greenery for the poinsettia. The nose is made with blown isomalt and lights up so Santa can find his way.

We were inspired by color and all the available candies we could find!!

My gingerbread house is decorated inside with a hardwood floor, chairs, a decorated Christmas tree and a sweet little puppy laying on a carpet in front of a fireplace. The small kitchen has a table with two benches and is displaying cookies, jelly and baked bread. I used a variety of candies, modeling chocolate, icing and melting chocolate to create my display. The gingerbread is held together with isomalt. I wanted to create a picture perfect Christmas scene :)

Using basic Gingerbread Exchange template of Mansion House, I extended wings on both sides. Included a Christmas tree inside the left wing with large two story window fitted with gelatin sheet. The house is made of gingerbread and royal icing, a little bit of fondant for stylized trees, door and decorations and sprinkling of coconut for snow. The crushed clear candy was used in the windows and the house is lighted on the inside.

Tulips made from gumdrops and grass is shredded coconut tinted green.

My daughter and I have made a gingerbread house every year for the last 26 years. We just try to come up with something different every year. We use royal icing and candy for decorations. I made fondant for the posters and wrote on them with edible markers.

Snoopy as always is laying on top of his house while Woodstock sits in the doorway. Totally edible made with gingerbread, pastillage and painted with food coloring. Snoopy and Woodstock were formed with rice crispy treats then covered with pastillage.

A victorian winter dream house.
With all eatable items, royal frosting, isomalt windows and gingerbread details.
Inspired by the Victorian era.

The tree is NOT edible. It is pvc pipe that was bent into shape and covered in foam. The rest is all edible using structural gingerbread, fondant, royal icing and candy from a local candy store in Falmouth, MA.

My inspiration is a water mill farm environment, which we have here on our island of Bornholm in Denmark. the stream, the mill and the Christmas tree sale at Christmas time. the 3 small houses are part of the farm. and their stream flows into the water mill.
I have used gingerbread, royal icing, dried beans as stones. and colored isomalt for the water.

Building gingerbread houses with my kids has been a tradition since they were born. So this is a memory from when they were little having fun and making a mess. The snowmen outside are from a book they loved to read at Christmas called snowmen at night. Snowmen would magically come alive at night. Kids thought they would look inside windows to see what “their people “ were doing .

First time creating a gingerbread house! Enjoyed adding in editable decorations from the small fire pit with graham cracker cup and tootsie rolls, pretzel sticks and marshmallows to ice cream cone trees and lots of royal icing to hold and decorate. Shredded wheat roof and lots of decorative piping and sprinkles through out. String of lights added inside house to shine through jolly rancher windows.

Burrus hall is the administration building on the campus of Virginia Tech university. I am employed there and it is an iconic building on campus. The structure is gingerbread. The topography and foliage are Rice Krispie treats. The trees and adornments are of tempered chocolate. Silver luster adds atmosphere.

I love the tropics, and wanted a reason to use isomalt to help create a surfing Rudolph!

I love the colors of Christmas, and was inspired when I saw a picture of Christmas colored half-timber buildings in Germany. I wanted to go big & put to use all the new techniques I've learned over the past year. Village Shoppes is 100% edible, made of construction grade gingerbread & covered in baked gingerbread bricks & stones. The half-timbers are made of gingerclay. The trees are gingerclay glued with isomalt onto ice cream cones with cinnamon stick trunks. Includes a toy store, pub & bakery.

“Santa Has Arrived” was inspired by my love of transparent windows on gingerbread houses. Christmas trees, gifts, pets and edible wallpaper can be seen inside the gingerbread house through the windows, giving it a more realistic appearance. Silver coloring is definitely out of my comfort zone, so I decided to go with it and it worked!!

England is one of my favorite places in the world—and London in particular. This year saw celebrations of the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II and the ascension to the throne of her son, King Charles III. This meant that Gingerbread House 2022 of course had to be Buckingham Palace. And worthy of the large-scale events there this year, this is my largest creation so far, being almost three feet wide! All built with respect for, and in loving memory of, HRH Queen Elizabeth II.

The figures are made of layers and layers of royal icing and painted with colored coco butter. The tree is made of chocolate. the walls have been carved to look like stones. The door,flooring, manger, hay bail feeder and hill where the tree sets is gingerbread