The World’s Best Gingerbread Houses
| December 20, 2017
Food.com’s Gingerbread Castle
While the four-walls-and-a-roof structure is the traditional gingerbread house shape, in recent years ambitious chefs and confectioners have branched out from the standard structure in order to create their own masterpieces.
Christine McConnell is a well-known baker and artist who creates remarkable gingerbread masterpieces. A few years ago, she was commissioned by Food.com to make a gingerbread house and instead made a five-foot-tall gingerbread castle. The entire castle was illuminated by miniature lights (which were the only parts of the structure that weren’t edible), and featured miniscule decorations, like wreaths and stained-glass windows made of sugar.
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