Incredible Gingerbread Art

Heritage Hall captured in gingerbread form

Yesterday we saw some impressive-looking structures made out of gingerbread for the annual Gingerbread Lane, now in its 31st year. The entrants range from amateurs to professional cooks and the results were really creative and fun.

Some featured Vancouver landmarks, like Science World, Lions Gate Bridge and the Hyatt Regency hotel where the gingerbread submissions are displayed. Another which one a prize, was of Heritage Hall on Main and 15th Avenue. Its stucco exterior was decorated with peanuts, and the roof with almonds, and even had trees in the background lit up with lights.

Snow-covered Grand Budapest Hotel

Another had a candy cane fantasyland theme, featuring lots of icing and candy canes. It was shaped like a three-tier cake with a gingerbread house at the top, complete with a swirled candy tower and even had a narwhal poking out of the icing or shall I say icy sea?

But most impressive was the culinary students at the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts, who built a seven-storey chateau that looked like the one from the movie, Grand Budapest Hotel. It had a walkway sprinkled with icing sugar for frost, and even a blue pond, and the building itself had lots of icicles on it and even a large Christmas tree next to it.

The gingerbread displays are a fundraiser for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, to fund wishes for children with critical illnesses. 

Vancouver landmarks in gingerbread

Gingerbread Lane will be displayed at Hyatt Regency Vancouver until December 29, 2023.