DENVER (KDVR) — Local pastry makers and engineers are making a new meaning for “home sweet home” as they work to build a 12-foot tall mountain cabin out of gingerbread and sweets.
The life-size gingerbread house will debut at the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center later this month for the holiday season. The resort said guests will be able to smell it throughout the lobby.
“We keep the spices in the dough to ensure the house fills the air with a warm gingerbread aroma,” Brielle Fratellone, executive pastry chef and head of 5280 Pastry said in a press release.
Work for the project has been underway since the concept was developed in July. Engineering and construction began in September and bakers began on the 450 pounds of gingerbread that the plan calls for at the beginning of October.
The resort said the cabin will use over 2,000 pounds of ingredients:
- 450 pounds of gingerbread dough
- 172 pounds of flour
- 108 pounds of molasses
- 100 pounds of powdered sugar and 65 pounds of granulated sugar
- 1,000 gumballs (stretching nearly half a football field)
- Over 50 pounds of ground coconut flakes for snow
The cabin will be decorated with sugar-sculpted poinsettias and holly, gingerbread lanterns, a cookie wreath and skis.
The project is expected to take a total of four and a half months to complete, with six weeks of dough preparation and three days for the final assembly.
The display is set to debut with a ribbon cutting in the lobby on Nov. 24 at 10 a.m.
There are more than 25 pastry cooks working on the project, which is the second large gingerbread creation for the resort. It will be on display until Jan. 1, 2026.
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