Disney Cruise Line’s Amazing Gingerbread House

This was originally posted on the Disney Blogs…but it’s definitely worth sharing.

How would you like a gingerbread house like this in your home for the holidays?

At 237 square feet, this gingerbread house on the Disney Dream is the largest holiday culinary creation in the Disney Cruise Line fleet! Each Disney ship features an oversized gingerbread house uniquely created by its own crew.

Baked, built and decorated onboard, the Disney Dream’s house took approximately 320 hours from beginning to end. While the ship’s culinary team baked the gingerbread cookies and prepared the other ingredients, the ship’s carpenters built the framework. Then, each brick was individually aligned and stuck to the frame with icing before the real fun began: adding lots of sweet treats and Disney-themed décor!

If you are hoping to build your own gingerbread house this size, keep in mind you’ll need 650 pounds of gingerbread dough, 5,250 gingerbread bricks and 220 pounds of icing sugar, not to mention the candies, cookies and other fun decorations you’ll want to add to it!

Be sure to stop by and get a delicious whiff if you’re sailing with Disney this holiday season (Yes, the house smells as good as it looks!), and let us know in the comments if we’ve given you inspiration for the design of your own family’s holiday gingerbread house.

Original article written by Jonathan Frontado of Disney Cruise Line.

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