Category: Gingerbread Houses

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Gingerbread House Bakery on Oregon Coast in Newport


These Gingerbread Houses are made from an original Gingerbread Cookie recipe. The bakery uses all the ingredients called for and took no short cuts. The bakery has built 5 houses this year and used approximately:

* 340 # flour (and spices)
* 200 # powder sugar
* 200 egg whites
* 160 whole eggs
* 45 # honey
* 75 # sugar
* 10 # baking powder
* 60 # sourball candies (all the windows are made of sour balls)
* $300 of cookies & assorted candies.

There are over 750 lights in and on the 5 houses. Each house took about 25 – 35 hours to complete. The total combined weight of the houses is over 500 #.

The Gingerbread Houses were baked, constructed & decorated in about a two month period. It took the entire Culinary & Stewarding Staff’s participation along with some willing Bartenders, Wait Staff, and many volunteer hours from Family & Friends to complete the houses.  Visit here for more.

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Preserving Your Gingerbread House

For those of you that worked so hard to put your Gingerbread Houses together and wonder “how can I preserve” this Gingerbread House for next year and the next year? We found some good tips from the folks at gingerbreadlane.

1. Most Gingerbread Houses will need some sort of repair no matter what.
2. Store the Gingerbread House in a dry cool place like your garage in individual boxes with some fiberfill around them for padding and bulk.
3. You can spray your Gingerbread House to help in its preservation.
4. Store your Gingerbread Houses in multiple garbage bags and each bag should be securely tied with a twisty. Put the securely enclosed Gingerbread House in a cool place to store. If you live in a hot climate be sure to check the Gingerbread House every so often to make sure ants and other critters have not eaten a hole into the bag or box.

Visit here for more information.

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Gaudi Gingerbread House Cathedral Barcelona Spain

Isn’t this a super neat “real life” Gingerbread House located in Barcelona, Spain. This Gingerbread House is actually a cathedral made by world famous architect Antoni Gaudi. Gaudi is from the province of Tarragona in southern Catalonia in Spain. Gaudí was a devout Catholic and in his later life devoted himself to designing and building the famous churches and cathedrals of Spain. For more information visit here.

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Japanese ZEN Teahouse Gingerbread House

This one is Really cool ~ A Japanese Zen Gingerbread Teahouse.
Ingredients and supplies to create this stunning Gingerbread House can be obtained in Asian food markets. Using Dashi Kombu for the shingles, rice cracker mix for decorative features and walk stones, 5-grain cereal for the turf, table sugar for the sand in the rock garden, whole dried nutmeg seed pods for the rocks in the rock garden and rice spring roll skin for the windows and door. For directions and recipe visit here.

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Hosting a Fun Gingerbread House Decorating Party

There’s nothing quite as festive and entertaining during the Christmas season as entertaining friends and family with a fun party. Sometimes the trick to great hosting is having the unique party theme that stands out from the others. Well you have that this year thanks to a great Gingerbread House decorating party!

Grab your friends together or invite your children’s friends over to make a gingerbread house using delicious Gingerbread Cookies, colorful icing, candy buttons and other sweet treats. You might end up covered in icing and cookie dough crumbles, but it’ll create a multitude of fun and photo-worthy stories. More here.