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Gingerbread Cottage From 'Down Under'  starstarstarstarstar
Every year for Christmas my Aunty makes a gingerbread house and this year I wanted to make my first gingerbread house at the age of 13 and hope to compete ...

"Grandma Pearl's House"  starstarstarstarstar
Last year, I made a replica of my house out of gingerbread. When my Mom saw it, she asked if I could make her house for this Christmas. How could I say ...

the fairy house  starstarstarstarstar
this is an all-edible house i recently made for a bread and rolls class in culinary school.

Gingerbread Rocking Horse  starstarstarstarstar
This year's gingerbread for the coffee table - kids won't let me go a year without one :-). Thought this would be an easy project I could whip out in ...

Elizabeth, Crystal, & Anthony's condo  starstarstarstarstar
Every Year Elizabeth, Crystal, Anthony, and Paw Paw do a Gingerbread house. The tradition started when Elizabeth was only about 5 years old and we used ...

Home  starstarstarstarstar
Created this one to donate to a Military base. They used it to raise money for their Family Centre which helps families of fallen soldiers. Hence the ...

Gingerbread Tikki Hut  starstarstarstarstar
This was my second attempt at making a gingerbread house. It won the grand prize in our local gingerbread contest. Everything is edible.

Haunted Gingerbread Mansion 2011  starstarstarstarstar
This is the fourth we've used the template from Haunted Dimensions for the base frame of our haunted gingerbread mansion. Since my daughter insists on ...

"Black Steel" Gingerbread Train  starstarstarstarstar
This "Black Steel" gingerbread train took a year of planning.

Icing Church  starstarstarstarstar
I saw the pattern for this church and thought no way would it hold up made of just Icing. I decided to give it a try and wow it came out so pretty but ...

Turkey Cake  starstarstarstarstar
I made this cake from looking at real roasted turkeys. This is the first 3-d cake I have made. I am an artist and had no problem sculpting this cake. No ...

Asian Something or Other  starstarstarstarstar
I'm running out of ideas for the annual family gingerbread project. My daughter found an Asian style building she likes and that led to this.

Gingerbread ChristChurch Cathedral- New Zealand  starstarstarstarstar
80 hours, 250 pieces of GB and 150 pieces of fondant icing.

Made by Kaiapoi Chef Aaron Campbell to honour the ChristChurch Cathedral after the August ...

A-frame gingerbread house  starstarstarstarstar
This is a replication of the house we built 26 years ago and live in currently. There's a lot more to the house but I made it small enough to put on one ...

Winter Woodland Gingerbread House  starstarstarstarstar
Designed to match my Winter Woodland themed dessert table. For how to make it yourself see here:http://toriejayne.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-winter-woodland-...

Let it snow  starstarstarstarstar
Always challenging myself I decided to try my hand at making a gingerbread Christmas snowglobe this year with playing penguins and snow people. Much to ...

My Little Dream  starstarstarstarstar
This is my very first Gingerbread house! I made it in front of an audience at a local Gingerbread House Competition. It was like a throw-down between me ...

German Chapel during Christmas  starstarstarstarstar
Every year in high school, we had to create a poster/or project for my German class that included Fraktur lettering, so I would always choose to create ...

Victorian 2010  starstarstarstarstar
I made this house as a donation to the local hospital foundation to auction or sell at this year's Festival of Trees.

Cajun Night Before Christmas House  starstarstarstarstar
I've been making gingerbread houses since the 60's for my sons and now my grand children. Each year I try something different or I revisit old ones. They ...

Gingerbread Village Caffè Torino 2010 (Picture # 4)  starstarstarstarstar
Another photo of our gingerbread village.

Gingerbread Nativity (Caffè Torino)  starstarstarstarstar
Each year, the "Nativity" is a very special part of our gingerbread village, as it symbolizes the true meaning of Christmas.

The walls and roofs of ...

Gingerbread Bridge (Caffè Torino)  starstarstarstarstar
This is the first gingerbread bridge I made. Every year we make our gingerbread village, and I thought it would be nice to have a bridge, so this is what ...

Gingerbread Lantern  starstarstarstarstar
I make these every year. I got the pattern and directions from a book called Gingerbread For All Seasons by Teresa Layman. It's a great how to book! Frankie ...

Black Pearl gingerbread cake pirate ship  starstarstarstarstar
Happy Halloween and enjoy

County Fair Entries 2010  starstarstarstarstar
Came across the pattern and instructions for the Icing Church on the internet a year ago and finally got around to making it. Entered it in the county ...

Woodland gingerbread bird house  starstarstarstarstar
A woodland themed gingerbread house for a Woodland themed baby shower.

Narrogin Australia Day Dunny  starstarstarstarstar
this was made by Harley, BJ Slim and Bones. We had so much fun making our christmas Narrogin Gingerbread Shack we decided to make the accompanying outhouse ...

Rocky Mountain Christmas  starstarstarstarstar
Not to sound too full of myself, but everyone was so impressed with this Christmas table centre piece, especially being my first attempt ever making one....

Narrogin Gingerbread Shack  starstarstarstarstar
we are pregnant for the first time and doing all those fun christmasy things we imagine we will enjoy doing with our little one in the years to come!

Creature"s Comfort Inn  starstarstarstarstar
I enter a gingerbread contest for the last 10 years this is the one I did in 2006 Creature"s Comfort Inn

Gingerbread Country Train Station  starstarstarstarstar
Gingerbread Country Train Station

Ginger Bread Church  starstarstarstarstar
This is my first gingerbread house. I tried to make it look like it after a church building in my wifes Dicken's village.

Gingerbread Lighthouse  starstarstarstarstar
I found a picture of a lighthouse in Youngstown,New York named Fort Niagra Light. I decided to model my gingerbread 'structure' after this lighthouse.

First ...

Bird House  starstarstarstarstar
I made this as my Secret Santa present for a lady who loves bird houses!

Gingerbread Train 2009  starstarstarstarstar
This is my gingerbread for the Cleveland Cavaliers this year. This picture doesn't show the logo, so I guess its okay to post a picture. I'm especially ...

Scandinavian Stuga  starstarstarstarstar
On my first date with my boyfriend we went out to the movies on a snowy night. Before the movie we walked through a hotel lobby where gingerbread houses ...

Gingerbread "Plantation" house  starstarstarstarstar
2009 Gingerbread Project - just for fun (1 of 2)

I copied the snowflake idea from another house on this site. I love to look at all the other creations....

Melody's 2nd victorian  starstarstarstarstar
Another house I made from a photo out of a dollhouse book. I freehanded the house pattern, the carousel I had a pattern for.

Melody's First Victorian  starstarstarstarstar
Made from a photo in a dollhouse book. I freehanded the pattern. The first really large house I tried.

North Pole Themed  starstarstarstarstar
My family had a gingerbread contest this year. The house on the far left was a premade house kit. The one in the middle was from a victorian template ...

Christmas log cabin  starstarstarstarstar
This is my 2009 project. It's also copied after log cabins I see in East Tennessee...mostly in Wear's Valley...with porch swings and little puppies on ...

Gingerbread Palace  starstarstarstarstar
2008 Gingerbread Project . . . just for fun.

Gingerbread Carnival  starstarstarstarstar
2007 Gingerbread Project . . . just for fun.

The Flying Jolly Roger  starstarstarstarstar
This is our family's 2nd year entering the Rotary's Gingerbread Extravaganza fundraiser. We won 2nd Place!

Tonia's Victorian Gingerbread House  starstarstarstarstar
Each Year I get together with my mother and sisters-in-law and we each make a gingerbread masterpiece. This was our 4th year (since I joined) and we just ...

Christmas Farm House  starstarstarstarstar
We have a second home in the Smokies of East Tennessee and on the way there, I always see a house that I decided to make out of gingerbread for my Mom ...

Winter wondercandyland!!  starstarstarstarstar
I have always wondered what it would be like to celebrate Christmas with a gingerbread house as part of the celebrations!! My granddaughter who was 3 at ...

Gingerbread House with Christmas lights  starstarstarstarstar
Not ordinary... I have to light my houses up for Christmas...

Gingerbread lighthouse  starstarstarstarstar
I have been making gingerbread for about 6 years now. The first one I made I took to work (I work at 2 arenas in Cleveland, Ohio) and used it as a centerpiece ...

The Night Before Christmas  starstarstarstarstar
Made for the 2008 Pittsburgh PPG annual Gingerbread Contest.

Gingerbread Riverboat  starstarstarstarstar
This is my partner Linda's first Gingerbread creation ever. She entered it into the National Gingerbread competition in 2008 and placed in the top 27....

The Washington Monument - 4th of July  starstarstarstarstar
This was done in honor of Independence Day. The Monument is 2 feet tall complete with the reelection pond and 50 flags. Everything is eatable except for ...

My lovely house  starstarstarstarstar
this is my first time to do, and that is my class practices

The White House! 2009  starstarstarstarstar
This is a picture of the White House that I did for inauguration day 2009. It was displayed at the Post Office and the comments were amazing! I have a ...

Easter Gingerbread Cottage   starstarstarstarstar
I made this as one of the prizes for the Easter Egg hunt at church. It was from one of the kits I got on sale cheep after Christmas.

Wizard of OZ  starstarstarstarstar
I am a big Wizard of Oz fan and for Christmas time was thinking of throwing a Wizard of Oz themed holiday party.

I wasn't sure how I was going to ...

Amsterdam 16th century house by the canals  starstarstarstarstar
As Gingerbread is not very well known in Holland I decided to take one of the most beautiful houses in Holland for inspiration. The houses along side the ...

A Summer South African Gingerbread House  starstarstarstarstar
I had always wanted to make a gingerbread house and got the recipe from your website. However, being based in Cape Town, South Africa, we celebrate Christmas ...

Sugarland Express  starstarstarstarstar
The theme of the display that we participated in this year was trains so we decided to do a covered bridge and train.

100 Calorie Place - St. Louis, MO  starstarstarstarstar
A 30 year cake decorating veteran that doesn't often decorate cakes anymore, I am a charter member of the St. Louis (Missouri) Metropolitan Sugar Art Guild....

Old Florida Hotel   starstarstarstarstar
I work at a 100+ year old hotel on an island of the gulf coast of southern florida.
Last year I made this house to look similar to the style of the hotel....

Gingerbread house from Malaysia  starstarstarstarstar
This is our second gingerbread house we made this xmas season. The first one collapsed while we were putting white icing on the roof.
The kids aged 8 ...

The perfect house?   starstarstarstarstar
we had been making simple gingerbread house for a couple of years starting off with a kit and then last year we made one ourselves, happy with our the ...

Gingerbread--The Swan King  starstarstarstarstar
I lost the pattern I had for this Gingerbread Swan and only had an old picture to go from so I recreated the pattern. The body is baked on a small stainless ...

The Fresno building  starstarstarstarstar
Oh boy, I get these crazy ideas of what to do to "impress" the boss. So this year I decided that I would make a replica of the building I work in out of ...

Christmas party  starstarstarstarstar
I was to make a ginger bread house for my family this christmas, as I have never made one before I thought I had better make a trial one first. It took ...

Icing Church  starstarstarstarstar
Okay, it's not Gingerbread but I just made this Icing Church for my Holiday centerpiece that will go with my Gingerbread Swan I'm working on. Anyway, I ...

Home Sweet Home 2007  starstarstarstarstar
This is last year's gingerbread house. I will be sending this year's pictures soon.

Wizard of Oz  starstarstarstarstar
This was a first for me and my family. I bake and decorate cakes as a hobby but gingerbread has always been, well, just cookies around our house to decorate ...

Christmas 2007  starstarstarstarstar
This was my very first gingerbread house. I made it for my 3 yr old grand daughter. She loved it so much that it will now become one of our family ...

My favorite gingerbread house 2008 (Caffe Torino)  starstarstarstarstar
This house was inspired by a picture of a beautiful gingerbread house that I saw on the internet, however, I tried to make it different. It was a little ...

Swiss Chalet (Caffe Torino)  starstarstarstarstar
I've been making this gingerbread chalet for the past 3 years for our "gingerbread town" exhibit in our shop, Caffe Torino. I use wafers, cereal for the ...

Brick Chimney House (Caffe Torino)  starstarstarstarstar
This house took a lot of work.... especially the fence, which I made using sugar icing... The roofs and walls were all painted with icing as well..... The ...

Gingerbread Town (at night)  starstarstarstarstar
This is a town of all my gingerbread creations of this year. I make gingerbread houses every year to exhibit in my shop in Costa Rica, and this year I ...

CMOE Gingerbread House 2007  starstarstarstarstar
I was working at a local up-scale restaurant as the Pastry Chef and the owners asked me to make a Gingerbread House for a local charity event. I was given ...

santa's castle  starstarstarstarstar
I enter our local gingerbread contest every year, and I have won every year. I have always made the houses ever since my kids were little. My oldest one ...

Casetta  starstarstarstarstar
For my collegues on Christmas Party!

HHC Gingerbread House 1  starstarstarstarstar
After coming down with a serious heart disease at age 44, I survived because of a wonderful, caring cardiologist who stepped in and saved my life. Six ...

The Wonder of Christmas  starstarstarstarstar
I made this church for a friend's church youth group last Christmas .. everyone enjoyed .. the church even had stain glass candy windows and lights inside ...

Haunted Halloween Gingerbread  starstarstarstarstar
I started making ginger bread houses 30 years ago .. It gave the children and I something to do together ..now I do it with my grandchildren ..and they ...

The First Snow  starstarstarstarstar
This won Top Ten in the National Gingerbread Competition at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville. It took 500 hours to create. It was modeled after an old Southern ...

Gingerbread Pirate Ship  starstarstarstarstar
The Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, FL displayed a gingerbread pirate ship last Christmas. It was 17 ft. long and 12 ft. high and amazing! The chocolate ...

Christmas Castle  starstarstarstarstar
This castle was made for a display at our local library. The children love to look at the houses every year.

Santa's in Southport  starstarstarstarstar
This was a Christmas gift for my mother in law who owns an art gallery in Southport NC. My 10 year old daughter helped me tile the roof.

The house ...

Gingerbread Townhouse  starstarstarstarstar
This was a house featured on the cover of Good Housekeeping in the mid-80s when they used to do a big Gingerbread issue for their annual contest. It's ...

The Characters  starstarstarstarstar
Strawberry Shortcake House gumpaste characters

Strawberry Shortcake House Inside  starstarstarstarstar
Here's the inside of my house.

Strawberry Shortcake Gingerbread House  starstarstarstarstar
I love love love Strawberry Shortcake. When I decided to enter the Grove Park Gingerbread Competition, Strawberry Shortcake was my immediate design. I ...

Veronica's Victorian Gingerbread Santa  starstarstarstarstar
I found this while looking through old pictures! I decorated this Gingerbread Victorian Santa around 1989 for a cookie decorating contest that never happened....

Radke GBread House  starstarstarstarstar
This gingerbread house was made using the recipes on this site. Six eggs gave the walls a good thickness, but they also caused some of the edges to curl ...

Harriman House  starstarstarstarstar
My trusting and faithful concierge Triscuit, awaits patiently on the terazzo front steps for guests.

The concept of a lodge came from my annual childhood ...

My Gingerbread house 2007  starstarstarstarstar
I'd like to tell, but my english is very bad...!!!

Three Fairies Cottage  starstarstarstarstar
My daughter's built this house together in a rare moment of artistic and constructive cooperation.

Sweet Christmas temptation  starstarstarstarstar
I am 11 years old girl from Bulgaria and this Christmas I and my friend Hilda decided to make two little Christmas Gingerbread house. This is a photo of ...

Princess Castle  starstarstarstarstar
the castle stands 2'6" tall, 1'6" wide and 1'6" long.
i created this castle at home in two days ,with the help of my wife and 3 year old daughter, for ...

Veronica's Pink Villa  starstarstarstarstar
I was 19 when I made this one. (My very first Gingerbread house!) I entered it in the 1988 Good housekeeping Gingerbread house contest and won 5th place!...

Enchanted Mushroom Cottage  starstarstarstarstar
I entered this at the Grove Park Inn Competition in 2000! (it did not place)

Veronica's Tea House  starstarstarstarstar
I won runner-up for this house in the 2000 Good Housekeeping Magazine Gingerbread House Competition!

Forest Park  starstarstarstarstar
My brother created his version of Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri for his 2006 Annual Family Gingerbread House Competition entry.

River Boat   starstarstarstarstar
My father won 1st place in my family's gingerbread competition last year, 2006. His special items: root beer barrels and spaghetti for ropes.

Taj Mahal  starstarstarstarstar
Every year, for four years, my family has held a Christmas night gingerbread competition at my parent's house in Missouri. Even though the competitors ...

Dottie's Castle  starstarstarstarstar
Castle Created for a relative's Christmas Party.

Domensions ( Approx) 2.5' long x 2' wide x 2'high, Weight+ 39.5 lbs!

Dotties Gingerbread  starstarstarstarstar
Dottie has been enjoying Gingerbreading for many years and here are some shot of a couple of her recent projects. The finished castle was 2.5 feet long ...

Dottie's Lighthouse  starstarstarstarstar
This is a lighthouse scene my wife Dottie made as a gift for a friend. It features a light in the lens compartment, "Cobblestone" walls, Keeper's quarters ...

Class of 2007  starstarstarstarstar
These gingerbread people have been a great little holiday creative project and so much fun to make. They are wonderful gifts for young and old. Since I ...

First gingerbread house  starstarstarstarstar
First gingerbread house. Made from scratch!

my first gingerbread christmas  starstarstarstarstar
I am a preschool teacher and LOVE my babies...I teach 3 year olds. I was looking on the internet for some craft ideas when I stumbled across the gingerbread ...

Gingerbread wedding box  starstarstarstarstar
The box was full of tiny gingerbread hearts with the names of bride and groom for wedding guests. I hope it was a nice surprise :-)

The reindeer would love to eat this roof!  starstarstarstarstar
This was my first Christmas Gingerbread house. I had made a few Haunted Gingerbread Mansions and loved using different ingredients for decor and decided ...

First Try!  starstarstarstarstar
We always make a gingerbread house (or 2) to sell at our charity holiday sale. This year we invited a neighbor's granddaughter over to "play" with us....

Gingerbread Barn  starstarstarstarstar
This is my first attempt at a gingerbread house ever. I got this template from a book that one of the chefs at school let me borrow.
The barn's "wooden ...

Gingerbread House  starstarstarstarstar
This was maybe the 3rd gingerbread house we've ever done, and we finally were successful!!

Education in Patience  starstarstarstarstar
This is the first gingerbread house I have made, and I am happy with the final outcome.
I spent some time thinking through and planning the project. This ...

The red gingerbread house  starstarstarstarstar
This was my first gingerbread house. I made this gingerbread house for a contest in our town tomorrow and i hope it will win. I'm a baker and cake decorator....

Old Fashioned Swiss Chalet  starstarstarstarstar
I learned to make this little house about 35 years ago. I don't use a lot of candy so it's pretty quick to make. I used chocolate covered pretzels for ...

Angelique's Tea House  starstarstarstarstar
My daughter was 3 when she won 1st place in the children's division of the 2004 Grove Park Inn Gingerbread House Contest! (Of course I helped her some)...

Dutch Windmill  starstarstarstarstar
My brother won third place in our 2006 Annual Family Gingerbread House Competition with his dutch windmill. Yes, it could turn.

Teddy Bears too!  starstarstarstarstar
I just couldn't stop at gingerbread people!

KC's Creation  starstarstarstarstar
We have a tradition every year to bake our Christmas goodies on one weekend - last year we decided to make Gingerbread Houses with some friends. We ended ...

Yummy  starstarstarstar
First time doing a regular house, thought it would be easier than a castle, took just as long to plan and measure but i had fun and happy with end or project...

Gingerbread Family that bakes together stays together  starstarstarstar
This is a family of gingerbread that is baking little gingerbread. The stove is complete with the 4 burners and 4 knobs. The oven has the racks and the ...

My son's first.   starstarstarstar
Well I've been watching the food network this year and I was inspired to give this a go. I started with a kit of course (sorry if that angers some of ...

Queen Creek Fire Department  starstarstarstar
On Wednesday December 10th, I was give an assignment by the Fire Chief, then was handed a small gingerbread house kit and a sheet with the Town's contest ...

Gemma's first attempt   starstarstar
This was a gift for someone I made it with sugar windows and battery operated lights inside thanks Gemma

Gingerbreadhouse  starstarstar
This is our 2nd gingerbread house we made.The first one collapsed while we were putting the white icing on the roof. We changed the recipe as the first ...

I did it !!!!  Not rated yet
This year, I proudly told my friends and family that I (yes that's right , I Miss Kristy) was going to conquer making a gingerbread house! When I announced ...

A Visit to Christmas Town  Not rated yet
Made for Pittsburgh PPG Display 2010

Christmas Village  Not rated yet
This was a family effort between myself and my 9 and 10yr old daughters.

Santa's Beach House  Not rated yet
We decorate a gingerbread house every year (cheating before--using a cardboard cut-out house and covering with graham crackers). This year was our first ...

Victorian Gingerbread Mansion  Not rated yet
This is my gingerbread house for Christmas 2011. Happy Holidays! You can see all the details on how I made this house at this location: http://goodiesbyanna....

BMDesign  Not rated yet
My friend Birgitte makes the most beautiful things with her hands.

Just see this wonderful gingerhouse. Check her website, to see all the lovely things ...

Cape Cod Gingercottage with Golden Graham Roof  Not rated yet
The walkway is made from wheat germ, the drive from pieces of licorice. The fence is, obviously, pretzel rods. The shrubs are rice krispy treats and ...

Star Trek  Not rated yet
My daughter Rachel asked me what I would like for Christmas. I said I would like a Gingerbread Star Trek USS Enterprise. With the help of her brother,...

for baby sister   Not rated yet
my 2 grandsons age 10 and 6 made this as they waited today for the birth of their baby sister , a home coming present , first time we have ever made one ...

Sweet home  Not rated yet
My first gingerbread house. I have always wanted to make one. It was a great fun. Can´t wait to make another one next time.

Dayton WA Historical Train Depot  Not rated yet
This is the Train Depot in Dayton WA. This was my first gingerbread house - and it did turn out HUGE! 2ft by 3ft for the Depot itself.

I was so very ...

Gingerbread House 8th Grade class trip  Not rated yet
Hello,

This house was so much fun to make. Completely from my imagination. I have twins who are in the 8th Grade. Every year the 8th Grade takes ...

A Happy Gingerbread Cottage  Not rated yet
This is the first gingerbread house I have ever made from scratch. And it is also the first gingerbread house we have as married couple. My husband and ...

Santa's horse sleigh  Not rated yet
I love baking gingerbread houses. Santa's sleigh I baked as a gift for a dear friend.

My first Victorian House I donated to Retirement home.  Not rated yet
This house seemed like it would be challenging for my first Victorian house so I decided to give it a shot.

No Business Like Snow Business  Not rated yet
First place ribbon for the medium size entries in The Fantasy of Trees 2008 - 'There's No Business Like Snow Business!'

I made 2 shades of gingerbread ...

doug's village  Not rated yet
this was my 1st village it was fun but still have lots to learn

mia's house  Not rated yet
Thought it would be fun to make a gingerbread house.IT WAS GREAT FUN!

Victorian Splendor 2011  Not rated yet
This is my 2nd Gingerbread House. Made my first one last year in memory of my Grandmother who passed. I never got around to doing one from scratch while ...

Houmas House Plantation  Not rated yet
I am a painter and our art association has been allowed by the owner to hang artwork in the entrance gift shop at Houmas House Plantation. I decided to ...

My first one  Not rated yet
This is my first house. It was quite a tricky task! My friends and family were amazed!!! Gingerbread houses are not famous in Greece.

My second attempt at a gingerbread house  Not rated yet
I asked a friend to come over and we had great time decorating this gingerbread house!

Gingerbread Creations  Not rated yet
These are some of the gingerbread creations I've done in the past. I try to make something new every year. I make sleighs, trains, houses, lanterns, trees,...

Gingerbread house, Hard Work, but worth it.  Not rated yet
Every year my daughter, Robin & I put on Gingerbread House Workshops for some churches in Chicago. Here are some of our houses that we are proud of.

Gingerbread ...

natale 2010  Not rated yet
Regalo per la mia mamma

Home Sweet Home  Not rated yet
This is the first Gingerbread house I have ever made.I had so much fun and loved shopping for all the candies and stayed up late nights creating it to ...

CHRISTMAS IN THE SERRIA  Not rated yet
a LOG CABIN HOUSE with a stream running through it. house and yard light up

Gingerbread House from Australia  Not rated yet
I decorated and assembled the house with my mum. I bought the pre baked and cut kit from Ikea. We then iced and decorated the bulk of it prior to assembling....

Go Big - Gingerbread Gulch Ski Village 2011  Not rated yet
My family and I started a few years ago with a kit from the store but it just wasn't big enough. Now in our 3rd year - we keep going bigger - except we ...

Eugenia's Place  Not rated yet
This little cottage looks like it was baked in a kitchen in Germany, where gingerbread houses originated, but instead was baked in Mar Del Plate, Republic ...

Our new gingerbread neighbors  Not rated yet
This was a family project that kept us all entertained for weeks. The house has lights inside as well, for a warm evening glow through the candy windows....

My first Gingerbread House  Not rated yet
I have always wanted to make one of this gingerbread houses , so finally here is my first try , Happy new year to all;-)

Happy Christmas Gingerbread House  Not rated yet
My niece (6) and nephew (4) and I built this house from the model of the new Green Architecture home they are in the process of building to live in. It ...

Ballantyne's Gingerbread House  Not rated yet
Gingerbread house ready for Christmas!

Ginger-go-Round with gingerbread reindeer  Not rated yet
Here is this year's gingerbread (logo not pictured) for the Cleveland Cavaliers. This carousel structure is totally made of gingerbread, royal frosting ...

2009 Schiada-Barnes Gingerbread Mod  Not rated yet
This is the second year my niece and I collaborated on a mid-century modern gingerbread house. We love making glass panels and lots of landscape. We re-...

honda of keene!!  Not rated yet
as requested by the very hungry sales dept.

Stormwind Castle  Not rated yet
My son and I just finished our fantasy ginger bread castle and boy am I tired. We designed and built it in just 2 days. I don't know what we were thinking....

Kristina's Castle  Not rated yet
We have one big joint birthday party for our 3 kids each year, so we have to come up with a universal theme (one boy, 2 girls). This year we had a Princess ...

Karins first Gingerbread House  Not rated yet
My husband and I experienced Oklahoma's first blizzard in 2009. Our family was snowed in and couldn't make it for Christmas/New Years so I decided to ...

The Empire State Building Complete with Kong in the Holiday Spirit!  Not rated yet
Living in the NYC area, we decided to recreate The Empire State Building and being a fan of KING KONG movies, we thought what better way to kick off the ...

Gingerbread Snowman  Not rated yet
Christmas is my greatest passion and when it comes to creating goodies with gingerbread the Christmas theme is the one I love to use make unique creations,...

Casa de Flamingo Christmas  Not rated yet
We live in the desert, but I love pink flamingos, so we be borrowed a theme from Florida. My husband channels Clark Griswold (Christmas Vacation movie)...

Laguna Beach Gingerbread House  Not rated yet
This my first EVER. Sugar windows, chocolate molded wreath and trees, all handmade.

Gingerbread Village Caffe Torino (Picture # 5)  Not rated yet
And here's another one...

Gingerbread Village Caffe Torino (Picture # 4)  Not rated yet
This is another picture of our gingerbread village... It's very hard to have all the village in one single picture, because then you can't see the details....

Gingerbread Village Caffè Torino 2010 (Picture # 3)  Not rated yet
This is part of our gingerbread village at Caffè Torino, in Costa Rica this year.

Our village includes 16 pieces in all: several houses, school, bridge,...

Gingerbread Village Caffè Torino 2010 (Picture # 2)  Not rated yet
This is part of our gingerbread village at Caffè Torino, in Costa Rica this year.

Our village includes 16 pieces in all: several houses, school, bridge,...

Gingerbread Village Caffè Torino 2010  Not rated yet
This is part of our gingerbread village at Caffè Torino, in Costa Rica this year.

Our village includes 16 pieces in all: several houses, school, bridge,...

Large Brick House at Night (Caffè Torino)  Not rated yet
This is the largest house in our gingerbread village at Caffè Torino. I looks amazing at night! Has a lot of color and is very elegant looking (my favorite ...

White & Red City House (Caffè Torino)  Not rated yet
This is a simple but elegant city house. All the walls are white with green garlands decorating them, and the roof is made out of red icing tiles. It looks ...

Green Swiss Chalet (Caffè Torino)  Not rated yet
This is a very simple but nice looking Swiss chalet. The roofs are covered with frosted cereal, and the walls are decorated with dark green icing and white ...

Gingerbread White Church (Caffè Torino)  Not rated yet
As always, the church is one of the most important pieces in our gingerbread village.

I like to decorate it all white with small silver dragees on ...

Gingerbread Train (Caffè Torino)  Not rated yet
The train is always an important part of our gingerbread village. This year we made the train a lot smaller than last year's. It carries candy in each ...

Merry go Round (Caffè Torino)  Not rated yet
This Merry-go-Round, together with the Ferris Wheel, give our gingerbread village a sort of "amusement park" look. They both look very colorful and thus ...

Red Cottage with Santa Climbing Roof (Caffè Torino)  Not rated yet
This is a cute red cottage, with a chimney, full of all sorts of candy and a fondant Santa Claus climbing up the roof with a candy cane ladder. It is one ...

Light Green Forest House (Caffè Torino)  Not rated yet
This is my second favorite house of our gingerbread village at our shop (Caffè Torino). It looks amazing at night with light coming out of so many windows!...

Large Brick House (Caffè Torino)  Not rated yet
This is the largest house in our gingerbread village. It looks amazing at night, with all the lights on. I will post some pictures of the house at night,...

Gingerbread Elf School (Caffè Torino)  Not rated yet
First gingerbread school I ever made. I thought it was a good idea to have a school in our "village".

All the school is made out of gingerbread, and ...

Gingerbread Ferris Wheel  Not rated yet
This is the first time that I make a Ferris Wheel. I had the idea of making a ferris wheel to place next to our merry-go-round and train in our village....

Sweet Springtime  Not rated yet
A very exclusive catering facility on Long Island needed a unique centerpiece for the entry foyer of their annual spring fashion show.

The Pillaging....Aaaarrrggghhh!!  Not rated yet
Very special client needed a unique centerpiece for her annual holiday party...she was not disappointed.

The Peppermint Diner  Not rated yet
This food art was created for the 2010 Festival of Trees in Melbourne, Florida. The Festival is run by the Junior League of South Brevard. It will be ...

First attempt-11 yrs old  Not rated yet
I just felt like I making a gingerbread house. And also I was trying to keep myself getting bored over the holidays. Last year was my first attempt at ...

placed 1st place with this house.   Not rated yet
this is my second gingerbread house(last christmas). i found inspiration looking through images here and on flickr. decided to build this one. i didn't ...

Black Pearl gingerbread cake pirate ship  Not rated yet
I love making the difficult ones

Castle tower Ruin  Not rated yet
I first came up with the idea when I took a, should be perfect, castle out of the oven and saw what a mess it was, to much Molasses made the castle into ...

Gingerbread Humvee  Not rated yet
I made this gingerbread Humvee for the army Christmas party. My boyfriend is an NCO and they had very little funding for the party...so i made all the ...

Sweet Bed and Breakfast  Not rated yet
I work at a bed and breakfast which doubles as a well-known restaurant and I made a gingerbread house of the business. I love making these every Christmas....

Victorian Gingerbread House  Not rated yet
My boyfriend and I made this house while stuck indoors for a week during the East Coast Blizzard this past winter (2010). It was our first attempt at ...

Victorian Gingerbread House  Not rated yet
My boyfriend and I made this house while stuck indoors for a week during the East Coast Blizzard this past winter (2010). It was our first attempt at ...

Roof  Not rated yet
This house was made this past Christmas. This is made from 100-calorie pack Oreo Thin Crisps. They work great! Its covered in confectioners sugar.

Where can I buy a gingerbread house  Not rated yet
I started making gingerbread houses because I could not find a good kit anywhere, now I'm addicted to making them and started Gingerbread by Rosa.

Victorian Christmas Gingerbread House  Not rated yet
I'm a pastry Chef at Whole Foods.

Gingerbread by Rosa - Biscuits (Family)  Not rated yet
This is our family made from gingerbread

Birthday Gingerbread House - Gingerbread by Rosa  Not rated yet
One site visitor shares a gingerbread house she made for her daughter's 6th birthday

gingerbread by rosa - white christmas  Not rated yet
My White Christmas gingerbread houses

Gingerbread by rosa - church  Not rated yet
My Gingerbread Church with lights

gingerbread by rosa  Not rated yet
A gingerbread house made for my daughters birthday

winter wonderland  Not rated yet
Bored at christmas.

Video: Gingerbread Pirate Ship  Not rated yet
Here's a video of the gingerbread pirate ship created by the talented staff at the Ritz Carlton Amelia Island, Florida.

Video: New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train ShowCarol  Not rated yet
New York area bakers each year create wonderful gingerbread "houses" for an exhibition at The New York Botanical Garden during the spectacular Holiday ...

Christmas Collision  Not rated yet
It all began with an attempt to assemble a simple premade gingerbread house kit and ended up a total disaster.

Gingerbread Train 2009, side view  Not rated yet
Locomotive side view. You can see the whole train on Photobucket. Search ThorneHope's gingerbread album.

Junkyard Clock  Not rated yet
Junkyard Clock was my First Place/Blue Ribbon prizewinner in the Peddlar's Village, Bucks County PA, gingerbread art contest. The Clock took me over 60 ...

holiday sliegh full of goodies  Not rated yet
well ive been baking for holiday gifts for about 20 years
and now it seems that ginger bread is becoming a verry loved part
of that I use my creations ...

The Gingerbread House That Baby Ruth Built!  Not rated yet
Living in the NY area, we are big NY Yankee fans and since they're the World Series Champs this year, my kids suggested making a Yankee Stadium gingerbread ...

A Christmas in Wonderland  Not rated yet
I have been honing my gingerbread house skills as a yearly tradition since my daughter was 2. She is now 28, and this is the second house I have built ...

Melody's 2004 front view  Not rated yet
Beach house I made from a house photo on the web. Front view.

Melody's 2004  Not rated yet
In 2004 I decided I wanted to make a beach house so I searched the internet for a beach house picture and made a pattern from the one I found. This was ...

Melody's 2007 Yacht Club  Not rated yet
I live in southeast Alaska and wanted to do something different that incorporated things I love, fishing, diving and a lot of our town is built on pilings ...

London's Gingerbread Big Ben   Not rated yet
My boyfriend didn't think I could make a Gingerbread Big Ben so I did for Christmas 2008.

County Fair Entry (2 of 3)  Not rated yet
2009 County Fair

County Fair Entry (1 of 3)  Not rated yet
2009 - This past summer I decided to take the time to enter one of my gingerbread creations in the county fair. In late August it is hard to find candy ...

Lighted Gingerbread House From Malaysia  Not rated yet
This is our first attempt at making a lighted gingerbread house using hard candy to make the windows. However, due to the hot weather in Malaysia, the ...

Debbie's House 2009  Not rated yet
We decorate houses for a display at work every year. This is mine from 2009.

Debbie's House 2009  Not rated yet
We decorate houses for a display at work every year. This is mine from 2009.

Carrie's Cottage  Not rated yet
Carrie donated this gingerbread house to the AWS bake sale where 100% of the money goes to their charities. I hope whoever bought it likes licorice!

Cute Dormer Windows  Not rated yet
I love dormer windows on a gingerbread house! Most of my creations end up with at least one somewhere on the house. This particular year (2004) I do ...

Tidor Revival Gingerbread House  Not rated yet
For Christmas 2003 I created this cute little Tudor Revival style gingerbread house and entered it into a local contest. I love the style for this one ...

3-Story Gingerbread House for Christmas 2008  Not rated yet
It's a tradition in our family to make a gingerbread house every year since my oldest son was very young. I started using graham crackers and eventually ...

Vernon's 70th Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
This is the birthday cake my sister, Ann Mitchell, made for my husband's 70th birthday. I still have it, covered of course. She is an amazing artist.

My First Attempt  Not rated yet
Not much to tell ...my kids wanted me to make one so I did a bit of research on the web and put this one together, it's been two years since and I thought ...

Cottage Country Christmas  Not rated yet
This won the Gold Medal in the Media Division at a local Gingerbread House Competition in 2008. Those are hockey sticks around the pond. The pathway is ...

North Pole Village  Not rated yet
These are the pieces I created for a local gingerbread competition. The Village is complete with a post office, workshop, and even a reindeer stable.

Mason Manor  Not rated yet
I worked on this for the past 6 months getting it down just write. It's about two feet tall. I'm just a pastry chef from Oregon that loves what he does ...

a great job for great people   Not rated yet
first before i start you have too know that i can better speak english than write. it was thanksgiving last year and i got a dream a dream to make some ...

House for our Christmas Dinner  Not rated yet
We have 54 tables in the dining room. So I made 54 houses for our guests to enjoy. The last seating took the houses home with them.

The Gingerbread Chapel  Not rated yet
My favorite parts are the candles in the windows, and you can't see it but the back has a large window and ivy covering all of the back wall.
This is ...

Fairweather Gingerbread House  Not rated yet
This is my first attempt at a gingerbread house, I made it a couple of weeks before xmas and then my dad helped me transport it for a half hour drive to ...

Santa's Toy Shop  Not rated yet
My teenage daughter and I made this for a display I do at our local library every year. We wanted to try our hand at using gumpaste and making figurines....

2008 Gingerbread Mod Car  Not rated yet
This year, my niece suggested we modify our mid-century modern house pattern to include a car port. So of course we had to make a car. My husband created ...

2008 Gingerbread Modern  Not rated yet
We found that Jolly Ranchers made awesome glass and water features. Notice the blue used for the pool. Lifesavers made great modern patio pots. Hot chocolate ...

2008_LS_Gingerbread_Modern1  Not rated yet
My niece and I decided to make architectural improvements to our 2007 mid-century modern gingerbread house model by adding "glass" windows and a car port....

2007 Gingerbread Mod  Not rated yet
Inspired by an expensive kit I saw on the internet, I decided to create my own mid-century modern gingerbread house.

Jack in Christmastown  Not rated yet
This was one of my first gingerbread creations made for the '08 Christmas season. It was on display at the Missouri Botanical Garden event including caroling,...

Old Time Pharmacy Different views  Not rated yet
Different views of my old time Pharmacy

Dogs in the Park  Not rated yet
Our community was in the midst of raising funds for our first dog park so we thought we'd make the theme to our gingerbread house "Dogs in the Park". ...

Light up you office for Xmas  Not rated yet
I was given a challenge to make a Gingerbread house for our" Light up you office for Xmas " competition. As a first attempt at doing anything like this ...

Gingerbread House 2008  Not rated yet
This is probably the third gingerbread house I have made. I used this website this year to add to my house! It turned out great. I took it to my family ...

Three Fairies Cottage 2008 (Winter Wonderland)  Not rated yet
This year we got more ambitious with hard candy windows and a more elaborate design.

HCC gbread #1  Not rated yet
I am an aspiring chef and i thought i would take some of my down time at work and create a gbread house. it wasnt easy at first. this was my first time ...

Early one morning....  Not rated yet
The Sunday before Christmas I was up early to take my daughter to work for the breakfast shift at our local hotel. At a loss as to what to do with my ...

White Christmas Down Under.  Not rated yet
As you all know, we don't have a 'White Christmas' in Australia, but I still couldn't resist the temptation of creating my own miniature one!

This was ...

Pepperkakehuset - The Gingerbread house  Not rated yet
This is my gingerbread house, X-mas 2008. It took 5 days to finish; I used ca.5 kilos of icing sugar and 12 egg whites. I have only made one gingerbread ...

gingerbread chapel  Not rated yet
my son asked if we were going to do a gingerbread house this year and this is one of 8 similar we did

Italian North Pole  Not rated yet
My sister and I are Amercian but we live in Northern Italy (near the Alps.) Gingerbread is impossible to find so we made it from scratch. This house came ...

It's a Family Thing  Not rated yet
Every year our family gets together to build gingerbread houses. We rotate from one family memebers house to another each year and have a great time!

Santa's Sleigh (Caffe Torino)  Not rated yet
This is my second sleigh, last year I made one, but my reindeer came up a little small for the size of the sleigh. This year I tried to improve that. I ...

Nativity (Caffe Torino)  Not rated yet
The Nativity is the most important of all the pieces in my gingerbread town, being the real meaning of Christmas. I make the Nativity figures with rollable ...

Merry-go-Round (Caffe Torino)  Not rated yet
I wanted to make a merry-go-round but had no idea at all on how to make one.... So it was kind of hard to make the templates, and very difficult to put ...

Gingerbread Train (Caffe Torino)  Not rated yet
This is the first year that I make a gingerbread train... It was fun since it's very different from making houses... I put candy and glaced cookies in ...

Doll House (Caffe Torino)  Not rated yet
I wanted something in pastel colors, instead of classical Christmas colors, being more like a "doll house".... So I decorated the roof with fondant cut-...

White Church (Caffe Torino)  Not rated yet
This is the church that forms part of our gingerbread town in Caffe Torino, Costa Rica. It's all white and gold, with small red dots. At night it looks ...

The Land of Oz by Violet and Mamie  Not rated yet
My granddaughter,Violet Worth, and I made this entry for the annual Conner Prairie Gingerbread Contest in Noblesville,IN in 2007. Violet was 6 1/2 years ...

HHC Gingerbread House 2  Not rated yet
The 'evening side'.

Feeding Time at the North Pole   Not rated yet
I made this for the festival of trees last year. It was the fist time I had ever attempted something this big.

Christmas fantasy  Not rated yet
Can see more pictures:
http://fotoslatino.aol.com/galleries/adrianfarah/page4/

Norwegian Cruiseline  Not rated yet
This past Christmas we went on a cruise aboard a Norwegian Cruise Line ship and this is the gingerbread house that was in their lobby

Candy Cane Christmas  Not rated yet
My friend & I made this in our home ec class at school. We won 1st place out of about 10 houses!! It was a lot of fun to create & it was the very first ...

Avery Elementary School  Not rated yet
My mother won second place with her replica of the grade school that she teaches at. She is the creator of the gingerbread house competition that we have ...

Gingerbread House Man   Not rated yet
My boyfriend entered this Gingerbread House Man in my family's annual competition last year, 2006.


It's a Marshmallow World  Not rated yet
I used lots of color in this one! Candy Corn, green icing and m&ms

Pointsettia house  Not rated yet
This was built last year by my mom and I
We used gum for the bricks and graham crackers for the roof


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Can't get enough of these? Check out these pictures we've compiled from gingerbread contests, other websites, and our own creations of course!

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Page 5 - Photos from Gingerbread Contests





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