The two-storey gingerbread home at Disney’s Grand Floridian uses 1,102 lbs of honey, 661 lbs of chocolate and 793 lbs of flour
Mickey Mouse has a brand new house – and it’s made entirely out of gingerbread.
The sugary two-storey home is a tradition at Disney’s Grand Floridian resort and has been reconstructed every Christmas for the past 19 years.tel.
The cookie cottage sits in the resort’s lobby and stands at a staggering 16 feet tall.
It takes over two weeks for the resort’s pastry team to bake, using 1,102 lbs of honey, 661 lbs of chocolate and 793 lbs of flour.
Constructing Mickey’s gingerbread house also requires the use of a crane and a week’s worth of painstaking labour.
The sweetness doesn’t stop with the walls as the outside of the house is decorated with candy canes and scales created from solid white chocolate.
The windows are painted with coloured cocoa butter and the floral displays dotted around the outside are crafted almost entirely out of sugar.
Any sweet-toothed visitors with an urge to bite into the building will be disappointed, however, as guests are not permitted to enter.
Instead the house is used as a bake shop, selling biscuits and baking kits to the hotel’s guests.
The house is not the only elaborate creation made by the bake team at the resort - s a solid chocolate Santa Claus is also made to sit outside the house.
Using confectionery as building materials is a theme throughout Disney’s Florida resorts.
In November, the Disney Contemporary resort built a seasonal Cinderella castle out of cookies.
Meanwhile, the Disney Beach Club resort has its own Christmas candy carousel.
Disneyland and Disney World are also offering more than 200 Christmassy foods across the theme parks until January 7.
Some of the festive treats on offer include candy cane beignets, a peppermint candy cane shake and Santa’s Mittens macarons with mint chip ice cream.
