Everything needed for a holiday meet-cute; hot chocolate for spilling on a handsome stranger, ice rink for an excuse to hold hands, and a gazebo for kissing under the mistletoe. Complete with peppermint pretzel benches and a candy cane sleigh.

Our local contest had a book Category so that was my inspiration. My Bible is made of gingerbread, side pieces are covered with royal icing and pounced with edible gold luster dust. The people and animals are 3-D cookies covered with fondant. The text is hand written with food gel on rice paper using a light box and coated with PME spray. The base is rice cereal treats covered in crushed gingerbread and parsley palm trees are rice paper.

Clock is gingerbread; poinsettia, holly leaves, berries, and mice are fondant. Inside - background fondant and royal icing. Table is gingerbread. teapot, cups and plate of cookies all fondant. Made with edible gingerbread. Candle and lights only thing not edible.

Train of gingerbread. Wrapped candy that can be eaten and replaced. Penguins playing by the pond with deer through the woods. 37 in long and 19 in wide.

This is my gingerbread creation with a Mario Kart theme. One of my sons got to chose the main character and he chose Luigi. The base of the main character Kart is a gingerbread cookie, constructed with royal icing and covered with homemade modeling chocolate. The tires are made from ginger cake. The Luigi head, body and arms were made with crispy rice treat and covered in home made modeling chocolate. The small ones are made with gingerbread cookie, crispy rice, modeling chocolate, and mini Reese cups.

“Merry Christmas” in different languages from around the world. Globe, sleigh, trees and reindeer are made of gingerbread. Santa is fondant.

My favorite Christmas movie "A Year without a Santa Claus" is the inspiration for this house. The house started as a kit. Additional pieces were baked, the children, presents and furniture. The Santa was made using ground up gingerbread mixed with royal icing. The quilt was made with royal icing and colored Royal icing and a toothpick to "quilt".

I am an elementary school teacher and always enjoy looking at the amazing gingerbread houses people build. This year, I decided to design an interactive gingerbread entry that kids of all ages could enjoy.
I created 3 boxes made of gingerbread with a different game on each top.
1. tic-tac-toe
2. checkers
3. match the shape
The gingerbread sleighs hold the pieces needed to play the games. This entry is completely edible and was donated to an organization that works with families in need

This is the bedroom of Scrooge with the spirits of his partner, Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The piece is made from gingerbread, gum paste, fondant, sprinkles, edible marker, royal icing and jolly rancher candies.

Holiday Train. Template from Gingerbread-By-Design train pattern. Candy used: gumballs, decorative sugar beads, sprinkles, licorice string and gummy, chocolate covered presents, airheads, multicolored pearl candy, candy cane, ice cream cone, gum paste to make Santa and Santa's gift bags, red good and plenty candy, peppermint mints.

90% gingerbread base and ground gingerbread to make moldable royal icing putty. Modeling chocolate ribbon and skirt with isomolt ice ornaments.

Noelle the dolphin swims the shore and finds stray Christmas ornaments. She jumps them as high as she can to send them back to Santa Claus. Maybe he will leave her a bigger fish in her stocking! The dolphin is made with a core of gingerbread, and sculpted with gingerbread puffed cereal mix. Coated with pastillage and painted with food coloring. The waves are rice paper.

This is a modem of Milford Ct. and depicts many of the citizens’ favorite buildings including Town Hall, Scoopy Doo’s Ice Cream, The Old Library, and the Anniversary Tower. It is topped with The Lobster Trap Christmas Tree that graces Milford Harbor each year. All of the structures are gingerbread decorated with royal icing and fondant. The substructure is made of cake dummies frosted with royal icing. It is presented on a turntable to enable viewers to see all of the buildings.

Every year we do a carriage ride thru our town. This is our family enjoying a ride.

Gingerbread Cookies, wrapped Chocolate candies, Chocolate Pretzel rods, Chocolate Coco bombs, peeps, Candy Canes, Cany Lollipops.