Sunday Sweets: 11 Gingerbread Houses To Make You Drool
December 13, 2015 Time for my annual roundup of amazing gingerbread houses!
Starting with a gingerbread light house:
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(By Mary E)
I love the colorful bricks, and that lounging mermaid!
(See the tiny seahorse?)
It's hard to believe this next one is gingerbread at all; it looks just like a cake!
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Ah, but turn it around, and lookie:
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Check out the dancing sugar plums - and other sweets - over the kids' heads!
Speaking of cake, here's a genius way of turning a tiered cake into a whole gingerbread village:
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(Baker Unknown. HALP.)
No idea how you'd cut it, of course, but c'mon. SO COOL.
The piping on this tradition Victorian number is just lovely:
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(By Torten Gallery)
And this one reminds me of a sweet little Swiss chalet:
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(By Yener's Way)
Totally crushing on the pink bricks and teal trim on this one:
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(By Sugar Rush Custom Cookies)
And the fact that it looks like Disneyland's Haunted Mansion doesn't hurt!
I'm always drawn to houses that still have a little gingerbread showing through:
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(By Catherine's Cakery)
The colorful piping on the rich brown gingerbread is just so beautiful.
And check out the cool blues on this one:
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That dripping snow! And the perfect roof shingles!
I actually took that picture myself at our local art museum's Festival of Trees, which had some especially fantastic gingerbread on display this year.
Also from the Festival, here's a Seussical design with peppermint candies springing from the chimney:
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And this Star Mint roof is positively dreamy:
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I always love houses with recognizable candy elements. It's so Hansel-and-Gretel. (Minus the child-eating witch part, of course, since that's less than festive.)
Plus that's another doll house design, complete with gingerbread furniture inside!
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And finally, to end on a geeky note, how about a gingerbread TARDIS?
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Talk about a timeless design, eh?
Happy Sunday, everyone!
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Reader Comments (18)
So sweet :D
Those are so fun! Love it when you showcase amazing talent like this.
That lighthouse is so pretty!
Sorry, I even magnified it and still, no seahorse.
Dang! Silly me. I was searching the water. I found it just as I submitted the other post.
The lighthouse is mine! I entered it in the Grove Park Inn contest in 2006, didn't win anything :( but thank you sooo much for including it!! You also had another of mine in the 2013 Sunday sweets--the little "disneyesque"cottage---thank you, Jen!!!!
The last one just needs a "Carol singers will be criticized" sign from the upcoming Christmas special. RIVERRR
So much fun! I love all of these!
The classic styles are probably my favorites... But if my office has a gingerbread contest again this year, I am totally doing a TARDIS. :-)
Have you seen this life-size one, where you can eat inside it?
http://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/road-trips/2015/12/10/eat-inside-this-gingerbread-house-in-marana/77097282/
I luuuuurrrrrv the colors on the lighthouse. Sooooo pretty! And I didn't notice the mermaid until you pointed her out. Made it even more awesome.
I was thinking this was an entry for all-time favorite Sunday Sweets post. Then...THEN!...we had a gingerbread Tardis.
'Scuse me...need to change my FB avatar. :D
Mary E- It's beautiful!! I just googled it and found "2008 Gingerbread House Contest Winners - Enchanted Christmas Light by Mary E., Timonium, MD" GO MARYLAND !!!
Hello! I'm the cake artist who made the gingerbread Tardis. If you like I have a Facebook page for my cake cake work under: "Hey Sweet Thing Cakes".
Thank you for featuring me. It's been a dream of mine for years to be on Sunday Sweets.
hey jen, did you see the food network special where they had to make life size gingerbread houses, complete with furnishings and yards? it was pretty awesome!
"the child-eating witch part, since that's less than festive."</I>
Say what?
Yay, I love the annual gingerbread post! And thanks for including some where you can actually see the gingerbread.
Is that star anise along the top of the Mint Roof house?
Oh, dang!! I took some pix of the gingerbread/marzipan village at the Benson Hotel (Portland), and I should have sent them in!! Well... anyway, it was great. :) It's still there, too, so check it out if you're in downtown PDX. (don't forget your canoe!!)
The dollhouse is mine. I do one every year for the Festival if Trees at the Orlando Art Museum! Come see this year!! www.pastry-ology.com