One of the most delicious tours you can take to fill your free time is the gingerbread tour! Every year, resorts around Walt Disney World put on amazing art displays with gingerbread and other sweets as their medium.
On the monorail loop are the gingerbread displays of the Grand Floridian and the Contemporary each bringing their own style. In the atrium of Grand Floridian stands a larger than life Gingerbread House. But this isn’t one just for gawking or as an amazing backdrop for pictures. This gingerbread house is a functioning store selling, you guessed it, gingerbread. More specifically, gingerbread shingles and other sweet treats. The Gingerbread House opens November 9th to assist you with all your sugary needs as well as collector pins, mugs and holiday ornaments.
Across Seven Seas Lagoon is the Contemporary with their own gingerbread work of art. While this one may not be a storefront, it is Cinderella’s Castle completed in the style of Mary Blair, the main Imagineer of it’s a small world. This royal gingerbread opens November 11th. Still in search of a sweet treat? Don’t worry, there is a sweets stand nearby.
Over by EPCOT, BoardWalk offers a gingerbread miniature of the new BoardWalk Deli along Crescent Lake. This display makes its appearance November 17th.
Opposite BoardWalk at Beach Club is a life-sized working carousel featuring iconic Disney Princesses made out of gingerbread. Honestly, this one blows my mind and I hope to see it person! My gingerbread houses barely stay together and Disney’s masterful bakers not only keep their’s together but also make them move. It’s crazy. This display is already up and spinning along with the treat stand.
The last gingerbread display is at Animal Kingdom Lodge Jambo House Lobby and is appropriately themed. Starting a little bit later on November 23rd, you will have the opportunity to see more additional life-sized gingerbread in the design of a zebra, as well as a baby giraffe; affectionately called a gingeraffe.
Not only do the artist handcraft these delicious displays, but they incorporated hidden Mickey’s. Can you find them all?
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