A Photo Tour of Great Gingerbread Houses
60: Number of pounds of fondant icing used by pastry chef Aron Weber and assistant Rebecca Kinsella while crafting the Fairmont Washington’s gingerbread Whoville Village. Photograph by Ian Bens
A Photo Tour of Great Gingerbread Houses
250: The number of shortbread cookie shingles roofing pastry chef Mallory Staley’s gingerbread mansion at 1789. Photograph by Erik Uecke
A Photo Tour of Great Gingerbread Houses
18: The number of shillings George Washington paid for a Christmas camel in 1787. Former White House pastry chef Roland Mesnier represents the dromedary here in marzipan. Photograph by Mount Vernon
A Photo Tour of Great Gingerbread Houses
3: Roughly the number of months it took White House pastry chef Bill Yosses to age the gingerbread so it was dry and hard enough to work with. Photograph by Eddie Gehman Kohan/ObamaFoodorama.com
A Photo Tour of Great Gingerbread Houses
1: Chevy Yukon, the size marzipan Bo Obama would be if he existed in real life. Photograph by Eddie Gehman Kohan/ObamaFoodorama.com
A Photo Tour of Great Gingerbread Houses
1,000: The number of pounds of gingerbread it took to make the Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner life-size gingerbread “boutique.” Photograph by Paige Yatabe
A Photo Tour of Great Gingerbread Houses
250: Total hours it took executive chef Matthew Morrison and executive pastry chef Frederic Barasse to construct the shop. The walls aren’t edible, but you can buy pastries inside. Photograph by Paige Yatabe
A Photo Tour of Great Gingerbread Houses
1: Place that the Radiation Oncology “Santa’s Radiation Workshop” entry won in the NIH’s gingerbread sculpture contest, garnering 270 of more than 2,400 votes. Photograph by NIH
A Photo Tour of Great Gingerbread Houses
42: The total number of entries in the NIH’s gingerbread contest. Photograph by NIH
A Photo Tour of Great Gingerbread Houses
20: The number of pounds of powdered sugar pastry chef Lisa Hood incorporated into the Marriott Wardman Park’s “Winter Wonderland Penguin Festival.” Photograph by Lisa Hood
