Categories: Candy, Chocolate, Christmas, F-U-N Food Photos, Holidays, News

World’s Largest Gingerbread House

In late 2006, the world’s largest gingerbread house was built at where else?—the Mall of America, the 2nd largest mall in the United States!! Just how large is this “house”? Try 1,496 square feet for size! I’ve lived in apartments smaller than that! It took 1,700 hours to build this 67-foot sweeeeet house.

No doubt about it, 67 feet!

Now that’s a chimney that even Santa would love!

Constructed with:

• 14,250 pounds of gingerbread and 4,750 pounds of icing
• 1,800 Hershey’s chocolate bars
• 2,800 Pearson’s Nut Rolls
• 1,200 feet of Twizzlers
• 100 pounds of large-sized Tootsie Rolls
• 300 pounds of Dots
• 100 12″ Whirly Pops
• 100 pounds each of Brach’s Star Brites Mix, Holiday Mix, Crimp Ribbon, Christmas Spicettes and Christmas Nougats; and thousands of candy canes from Farley & Sathers

Mmmm, gingerbread!

To view photo in Flickr, go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/yummies4tummies/3181830222

Close-up of the Hershey Bars–look at the dark brown areas on the exterior in other photos

Left side of the house

Roof view with “snow” (left side of house)

Gingerbread Men at home (inside the House)

To see a video clip of its construction, clicky here. Click “Time Lapse” button at top. Otherwise, go to calendar on left side and click on arrows to get to October 2006. If you click on each day, you’ll see the daily progress. Image Zoom is also available. On November 22nd, a *ruler* was put in place. Two days later, it made its debut. Disassembly took place on January 4, 2007.

**Photos from junkfoodnews.net, travelblog.org, supersizedmeals.com and the following Flickr accounts: emoeby, The Adventures of Kristin & Adam, jpellgen, sheri219, and Northern Transplant

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Tags: DOTS, gingerbread house, Hershey's chocolate, Mall of America, Pearsons Nut Rolls, Tootsie Rolls, Twizzlers, Whirly Pops