Asheville Legendary Inns Gingerbread House Tour

Work in Progress
Photos of the houses being put together

Abbington Green by Deni Rae Cole
Abbington Green computer layout
Windows and doors designed		 Abbington Green model
Windows and doors taped to structure to insure proper fit. Roof-line trimmed for hip roofs on each end and gable on front; "bump-out" added to face of house.
A small ball of gingerbread dough

Part of a batch of "siding"; from the oven to the marble slab to cool straight and flat.
Rear roof-line trimmed for flat top gable.
Front gable attached. Hip roofs sanded.
 

Maggie Faulkner

The roof tiles are meant to simulate slate.

A total of 463 slates are cut out of fondant and colored with edible black-powdered paint.
Clement Clark Moore, author of "The Night Before Christmas" is also hand-painted on fondant