World’s Largest Gingerbread House.



Gingerbread artist Roger Pelcher built the world’s largest gingerbread house at Mall of America. How large? Here’s some relevant statistics:

  • The gingerbread house has 1,496 square feet (larger than my house!)
  • Built from 14,250 pounds of gingerbread and 4,750 pounds of icing
  • It took approximately 1,700 work-hours in nine days to build.
  • Embellishments include: 1,800 Hershey’s chocolate bars; 2,800 pearsons nut rolls; 1,200 feet of Twizzlers; 100 pounds of Tootsie Rolls; 300 pounds of DOTS; 100 12" Whirly Pops; and thousands of other candies.

Links: Gingerbread cam | Official webpage @ MOA - Thanks Tiffany!


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Posted on December 16, 2006 at 1:06 pm by Alex
Category: Food & Drinks, Pictures, Travel & Places

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3 comments to "World’s Largest Gingerbread House."

  • bob
    December 18th, 2006 at 12:02 am

    So disapointed..
    I’m expecting now the biggest STRUCTURAL gingerbread house. Anybody can slap a couple of slices on a wall, but building a real house with gingerbread is left to be seen. That woudl be a structural challenge…

  • intelnm
    April 11th, 2007 at 10:57 am

    i wonder if they let anybody have a piece of it when they were done

  • agrees with bob
    December 1st, 2007 at 12:20 pm

    i agree with bob i want to see a structual gingerbread house

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