Photos from Gingerbread Contests

Slovakian Gingerbread houses 
I am doing these gingerbread houses now for 15 years for my family, friends and colleagues. It's a typical winter - or Christmas decoration in our country....

Hansel and Gretel 2009 /First Place and Viewer's Choice Award / Darnall's Chance House Contes  
This is a house that I've been wanting to make for awhile. I had a good time with the ice cream cone and the witch inside. I chose not to put Hansel in ...

Santa's Favorite Ornament / First Place / Darnall's chance House Museum Contest 
This ornament is depicted from an ornament that my husband had as he grew up. We still put the ornament on the tree each year. The ornament portion was ...

Toas Pueblo 2004/ 2nd Place/ Darnall's Chance House Museum Contest 
This gingerbread creation was depicted from the real Taos Pueblo in New Mexico. I built it in levels. i actually built each level upside down, as not ...

Log Cabin 
This was for the City of Lewisville's Holiday at the Hall event. I wanted to do something different and more realistic than most houses. It won first place ...

Hogwarts in Gingerbread (actually Biltmore House) 
This was one of the most amazing creations at the 2009 National Gingerbread Competition. Everyone sitting around us was speculating that it was a model ...

12 Days of Christmas in Gingerbread  Not rated yet
We had the pleasure of meeting the baker of this incredible gingerbread creation of the 12 Days of Christmas.

Merry Christmas, From our Gingerbread House to Yours 
This was the first Gingerbread house my son and I made. We did this last Christmas, and along w/ my other (youngest) son and my sister with her youngest ...

Grove Park Inn 2008 
Here's one of my favorites!

Cheyenne Depot Plaza Gingerbread House Competition  
The colorful story behind this gingerbread house was I decided to enter a local gingerbread contest, at my mother's urging might I add, in fact it was ...

christmas time (YAY) :) 
it took us a long time to find the perfect gingerbread house we had to go all the way to TYLAND!what a trip!
can you find santa HINT:he's up high
hope ...

Anita Bells Bakery - Grove Park Inn 2006 
I traveled from Debary, Florida to Ashville, North Carolina to enter in the National Gingerbread competition at the Grove Park Inn 2006. It did not win ...

2009 National Gingerbread House Competition 
Here are some more beautiful creations from the 2009 National Gingerbread House Competition.

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling 
My father passed away in June of 2008 so we decided to make a gingerbread house to remember him.

He was 100% Irish and came to America on a boat when ...

Dee's First Attempt 
The Grandchildren would all be with us for Christmas and I just wanted to try my hand at being creative.

I was pleased with the outcome but the best ...

The First Snow 
This house was modeled after several houses in New Bern, NC. I combined the look and style of three individual houses and came up with this one. It was ...

Gast Haus / Inside view 
This is the inside view of the Gast Haus. you can see the tree and the fireplace. The floors are made of pastiallage.

Gast House / A German Bed and Breakfast 2005 
This Gingerbread B&B has a mountain and a stream by it.There is a loft as well.

Pigg Point School  
This school house is a depiction is of an old school house in my area.

santa"s work shop 
I Had a lot of fun doing this one the gum roof is made of big red gum.

Grove Park Inn 2008 
Here's another beautiful house.

Gingerbread cottage 
Well it was my first time making a gingerbread house, i looked on this site first and got some ideas, my niece and nephew helped with the lollies of course ...

Old Time Pharmacy 
I entered a interdepartmental contest at the hospital I work at. I work in the pharmacy, so that is why I picked this theme. This is the first gingerbread ...

franciui's gingerbread casetta  Not rated yet
BUON NATALE!

Emily's winning blue themed house  Not rated yet
This is the winner or the 2008 George Brown College gingerbread house contest. It was created with a blue theme.

Gingerbread Grand Piano  Not rated yet
This gingerbread piano was entered into a contest in 2003 (Gingerbread Wonderland at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum in Morristown, NJ)

Fairy-tale pop-up book (Biltmore House)  Not rated yet
I have long admired the Biltmore house and have done a lot of research on the Vanderbilt family. I wanted to create the fairytale feel of the house by ...

National Gingerbread House Competition  Not rated yet
Grove Park Inn National Gingerbread Competition

Yellow Gingerbread House  Not rated yet
This adorable yellow house was a winning entry in the 2009 National Gingerbread House Competition. Great details inside and out!

North Pole General Store  Not rated yet
This adorable North Pole General Store was a winner in the 2009 National Gingerbread House Competition at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC. I wish I had better photos of the inside details!

Gingerbread Venice  Not rated yet
This beautiful scene was a Teen winner in the 2009 National Gingerbread House Competition. Looks like Venice to me. Adorable town houses, cafe, and river, complete with gondola.

Red Roof Gingerbread House  Not rated yet
Here's another beautiful Teen entry in the 2009 National Gingerbread House Competition at the Grove Park Inn. Really beautiful!

Gingerbread Manor  Not rated yet
This beautiful Gingerbread Manor was a Teen winner at the 2009 National Gingerbread House Competition. It almost looks like a Tuscan villa to me. Gorgeous!

Dutch Windmill and Tulips  Not rated yet
This beautiful Dutch Windmill and Tulips is another incredible Teen winner of the 2009 National Gingerbread House Competition at the Grove Park Inn. It was amazing!

Candy Cane Inn  Not rated yet
This beautiful gingerbread house was one of the Youth winners in the 2009 National Gingerbread Competition. Isn't it beautiful?

Nutcracker Ballet  Not rated yet
Believe it or not, there were TWO beautiful Nutcracker Ballet creations at this year's National Gingerbread Competition! This one was very large and every ...

Gingerbread Rudolph  Not rated yet
This Gingerbread Rudolph scene was a winner in the Youth category at the 2009 National Gingerbread House Competition. Yes, it was actually made by someone 9-12 years old!

Tudor Style built by Youth - 2009 National Competition  Not rated yet
This beautiful Tudor Style Gingerbread House was in the Youth category at the 2009 National Gingerbread Competition, which means that it was baked by someone ...

Gingerbread Mountain Music Dance  Not rated yet
This incredible gingerbread creation was titled

Gingerbread Castle from National Gingerbread Competition 2009  Not rated yet
Gingerbread Castle from National Gingerbread Competition 2009

Gingerbread Nutcracker Ballet Theater  Not rated yet
This adorable Nutcracker Ballet gingerbread house was one of the beautiful entries in the 2009 National Gingerbread House Competition at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC. It's hard to believe this one didn't even make the top 10! That goes to show you just how steep the competition really is.

Grove Park Inn 2008  Not rated yet
Here's a really cute house from the Grove Park Inn 2008 National Gingerbread Competition

National Competition Teen Winners 2008  Not rated yet
Here are some of the winning entries from the TEEN Division of the National Gingerbread House Competition at the Grove Park Inn 2008

a great jop and a lot of work  Not rated yet
just alot of work but it makes really fun and i like it and i work longer on this project than 52 hours

National Gingerbread House Competition 2008  Not rated yet
Photos from the Grove Park Inn's National Gingerbread House Competition 2008

The gingerbred making  Not rated yet
I have always loved making gingerbread houses so i figured that i will make a contest for the people that love it to i started making them when i was 13 ...