Giant Edible Gingerbread Playhouse

Hansel and Gretel, eat your hearts out! 

  Ever wonder what it would be like to spend the weekend as Willy Wonka’s guest?  Well my saccharin seeking friends wonder no more… Our pals at Neiman Marcus have heard your candy coated cries and have answered with a 1000 pound confectionery mini-manor.

This year the famed high end retail chain brings the Edible Gingerbread Playhouse by Dylan's Candy Bar to their over the top Christmas wishlist book.   Yep, you read that correctly the EDIBLE PLAYHOUSE.  


They claim the sugary domicile is big enough to satisfy even the "healthiest" of sweet-tooths - we say, "No Duh!".  At 6 ft 6 in tall, 5 ft 3 in wide and 4 ft deep, this enormous cookie hut is more than just a way to satiate a sugar craving... it's job security for an army of dentists.

The half ton candy structure is made from 381 lbs. of gingerbread, 517 lbs. of royal icing and literally thousands of gourmet sweets, including oversized gummies, mints, gumdrops, and cookies, all topped with a candy-encrusted roof (there's even a lollipop tree inside, just for good measure). 

But, at $15000 this is one Christmas cookie you won't be seeing on a Black Friday door buster list any time soon.  Then again -  our sources tell us that if you can hold out until the day after Christmas sale they’ll be practically giving ‘em away – of course the 2000 gallons of milk required to keep from going into a sugar induced coma will offset most of your savings.