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You may remember Instructables user mezcraft from her amazing Harry Potter-themed gingerbread house. Believe it or not, she’s actually topped that achievement. Mezcraft’s cuckoo clock isn’t just gingerbread on the outside. The gears are gingerbread, too! Mind you, it doesn’t actually function as a clock. But gingerbread engineering has advanced so rapidly in the past few years that surely such a clock will be available in the near future.
“Run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me, I’m Gingerbreadtron!” Brian Hall, a mechatronics student at McMaster University in Ontario, made this gingerbread house that transforms into a fighting robot. How should it be armed?
These gingerbread men are far more flexible than I am, and they’ve been baked! Patti Paige, who once made a completely edible typewriter out of gingerbread, makes gingerbread men in popular yoga poses. At the link, you can watch her tutorial video on how to make your own.
Link -via Bit Rebels | Patti Paige’s Website
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There’s no tastier holiday tradition than creating your very own gingerbread house. If you aren’t very talented at sealing cookie bits together, like I am, even your best homes probably look like they’re ready to be condemned upon completion. Fortunately, not everyone is so inept at gingerbread creations and many creators go on to put together their own delightfully geeky designs. Here are some of the best nerdy gingerbread creations around.
They may not be the most artistic gingerbread creations, but these super hero designs by Sugar Swings are certainly adorable and they look absolutely delicious as well.
For those who like their gingerbread men to be a little less chipper and lot more serious, these figureheads of Russian culture by Craftster forum user Woolylogic are a good choice. Choose between Turgenev, Dostoyevsky (above), Tolstoy and Gogol.
Sure anyone can make a one-room gingerbread shack, but turning a unique architectural design into a gingerbread creation takes a heck of a lot more skill. That’s why these great designs by real architecture firms went for so much money when they were auctioned off for charity. In fact, the one above, by Nick Milkovich Architects, Inc., sold for $610.
While this architectural marvel may not look familiar to everyone, Harry Potter fans will instantly recognize it as The Burrow, the adorably charming home of the Weasley clan. Creator mezcraft from the Craftster forums even added the special monogrammed sweaters Mrs. Weasley makes for each of her children at Christmas.
Of course, the most iconic Harry Potter building is Hogwarts and Britta’s incredibly detailed gingerbread version is an impressive tribute to the majesty of the world-famous wizarding school. Best of all, she’s even got pictures of the entire arduous process so you could attempt to make your own at home…with a whole lot of time and dedication.
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Forget the shooty dog thing. LiveJournal user therru made this gingerbread version of K9, the robotic dog from Doctor Who, on Christmas Eve a few years ago. It’s completely edible except for the metal buckle on his collar.
Link -via The Mary Sue
Pastry master Patti Paige made this gingerbread typewriter which is completely edible (even the rice paper) but not functional. It’s on display at the Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City to benefit the charity City Harvest.
Link -via Nag on the Lake
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redditor nem8 made the USS Xmas, affectionately known as the Gingerprise. There is an argument in the comment thread about whether the registry number is correct. This is why we Trekkies are awesome.
N.B. The joke “Bake it so!” is better used for a different ship, namely the Xmas-D.
Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, on the planet Endor, under the forest canopy, lies a village made of chocolate, breakfast cereal, and gingerbread! And don’t look now, but there’s a Death Star lurking above. The Canadian baker who blogs under the name The Infinite Yums built this Ewok Village for a charity auction. The post about it has the building process and plenty of pictures of the details. Link -via Boing Boing
Lookit ‘em, boss! Great, big, fat sugary treats! Rachel Klemek of the Blackmarket Bakery made this gingerbread assault vehicle. Luke Skywalker is about to slice it open.
Link -via DVICE | Bakery Website
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Gingerdead Men Cookie Cutter – $6.95
Do you know someone who makes cookies that are to die for? Get them the Gingerdead Men Cookie Cutter from the NeatoShop. This jumbo 5″ cookie cutter / cookie stamp lets you create your own skeleton cookies.
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fun Kitchen Gadgets!
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This life size 1948 Ford Woodie replica was made by pastry Chef Brian Sundeen and his team of The Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel. It is 8 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 5 1/2 feet tall and is made from 150 pounds of gingerbread and 300 pounds of royal icing. It looks like one sweet ride.
Link – Via Edible Crafts
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The Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons will hold their 4th annual Gingerbread Trailer Park competition this Saturday night in Atlanta. The entries are judged on their creativity and “Christmas-iness”. Gingerbread is not required, but entries must be made of at least 90% edible materials. Looking through the photos of last year’s competition, I see that includes broccoli, snack cakes, pretzels, Jell-o, and donuts. Link -via a comment at mental_floss
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For the third year in a row, the Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls, Canada is putting together 600 pounds of gingerbread, 1,000 pounds of icing, 2,000 chocolate wafers, 750 cookies, and 4,900 pretzels to make a gingerbread house you can stand up in! It will take about two weeks to complete, and then patrons will be invited to dine inside -but you’ll have to make reservations in advance, as it will have only one table. The $20 reservation charge will go to help abused children through a local charity. Manager Keith Simmonds says the structure is extremely popular -and yes, people do occasionally snag a bite of it.
He said it happens about every five minutes.
“We do a lot of repairs on the fly and overnight. We try to keep people off as much as we can, but it’s part of the fun. I mean, it is a totally edible structure.”
Once the house is finished in early December, it will accept reservations for one table of six. Families will be able to order off the same menus offered in other restaurants inside the lodge, including breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets. And of course, there’s a dessert menu — separate from what’s seen on the surrounding walls.
The gingerbread house will remain up until January. Link
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Most gingerbread houses are humble homes with simple cookie walls and roofs and candy decor. Some gingerbread architects are far more inspired and artistic though, like the designers of the amazing gingerbread artworks on WebUrbanist.
Sure, anyone can make a gingerbread house. But what would be the result if it was built by true professionals? The Vancouver-based art collective Creative Room held a charity art competition and asked for contributions by architectural firms. Their task was to build a modernist model home out of gingerbread. Pictured above is “Candy Bar” by Busby, Perkins & Will. At the link, you can view a gallery of the other winners.
Link via DudeCraft | Busby, Perkins & Will
Ever wonder what the internal workings of a gingerbread man would look like? Artist Jason Freeny has you covered, detailing the full anatomy of one of our gingerbread man friends.
Wow. My gingerbread decorations = two blobs for eyes and a curved line for a smile. Talented Craftster Woolylogic made detailed likenesses of Russian literature greats. And they’re good. That’s Dostoyevsky in the picture; click the link for cookie versions of Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol.
No homebuilding slow down at my house. My two-and-a-half-and-don’t-
you-forget-the-half-daddy daughter is on a gingerbread house-building binge.
So when I was looking for inspiration online (read: wasting time in the guise of doing something productive), I ran across this fantastic gingerbread Mac by Flickr user minorbug.
One of our first years together, my husband and I decided to make a gingerbread house during the holidays, thinking it would become one of our new traditions. We didn’t buy a kit, because I thought it wouldn’t really be too difficult to cut some rectangles out of dough. Big mistake. It was terrible – really terrible. The walls wouldn’t stick together, so to compensate, I kept piling up the frosting (didn’t work). We’d get one side up and another would fall down, decorations were dripping off, some of the cookie pieces baked down to different sizes than others… it was truly awful and hilarious. We’re going to try again this year, I think, but we will definitely be using a kit. No matter what we do, I’m quite sure none of ours will look as cool as these, but at least it gives me something to aspire to.
Have you seen any good ones? Have you created any good ones? Let us know in the comments.
