The World’s Best Gingerbread Houses
| December 20, 2017
Ritz-Carlton Edible Gingerbread Mansion
While various hotels try and outdo each other every year making the most incredible gingerbread house, the Ritz-Carlton in New Orleans went over the top in 2016 and created a life-sized historic mansion made entirely out of gingerbread.
The day before Thanksgiving, the opening ribbon was cut, and people could literally walk onto the gingerbread porch and into a mansion made entirely out of gingerbread, fondant, and sugar. The gingerbread creation was inspired by a famous New Orleans mansion known as the “wedding cake house,” and took a team of eight bakers weeks to put together.
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