I'd rather devote my holiday prep time to decorating cookies and wrapping gifts, but I still have a deep appreciation of the incredible amount of work that goes into making a prize-winning gingerbread house. Even if that house won a ribbon at the local school holiday bake sale and not at a national competition. The above gingerbread house, found via the lollypix blog, won the grand prize at the national gingerbread house competition in Florida (you can peek inside here) this year.
I'll stick with cookies, but read on for a few more houses.
This candy-coated house, uploaded by pastelginger, is one that I wouldn't mind snacking on!
Maybe next year I'll try my hand at a gingerbread dragon, like the one conquering this gingerbread castle, uploaded by g2 duckworth.
This is another of the entries from the national gingerbread house championships, though judging from the date posted, it is probably from last year's competition. No matter. This just might be one of my favorite gingerbread houses of all time, since it has a great use of color and really steps away from tradition. Originally uploaded by kira1820.
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