The World’s Best Gingerbread Houses
| December 20, 2017
Dream House
Each year, the National Gingerbread House Competition takes place in Asheville, North Carolina. Bakers come from all around the world with their signature creations to display them in the hope of winning the grand prize.
In 2016, the winner was Beatriz Müller from Ontario, Canada, who brought her creation entitled “Dream House” to the competition. Her amazing five-storey creation is entirely edible, and features incredible details, like sugar-glass windows, realistic fondant topiaries, and turrets with miniscule balconies and tiny little weathervanes on top.
Image via Romantic Asheville
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