Over 150 gingerbread houses of all shapes and sizes will be on display inside the Wood Library and Museum in South Windsor for its 6th Annual Gingerbread House Festival beginning Friday until December 10.
The event is like traveling through Lollipop Lane or Gum Drop Street -- a fairy tale world of edible houses and historical replicas covered in candy, all created by regional artisans, bakers and families.
“We’ve got chewing gum here, we’ve got biscuits, coconut, royal icing,” said Kathy Kerrigan, festival coordinator.
The event is free and open to the public.
Christine Hastreiter is a chef who spent more than 300 hours making her gingerbread hobbit house.
“Like to get the whole hobbit hillside – because hobbit houses are built on hillsides – this is massive amounts of rice crispies underneath all of this,” said Hastreiter .
The hope is you’ll get a little laugh – a little smile – and with the cost of $1 a raffle ticket going to a good cause, you could take home one of these gingerbread houses.
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Winners will be picked on the last day of the festival: December 10.
These fairy-tale houses are also available for purchase at the library’s gift shop upstairs.
“This is how we get to keep the doors open and the lights on and how we get to fund all our programs,” said Kerrigan.
The nearly two-week long festival brings in about 8,000 visitors from across the region.
The event is free and open to the public.
