Disney World is one of the most amazing places to celebrate Christmas and the holidays. The decorations, music, and everything festive will put you in the mood for the holidays. One of the most spectacular holiday arrangements are the Disney World’s Gingerbread Houses. The best part is that you don’t need a park ticket to experience the amazing wonder of these creations and to get in the holiday spirit. It is completely free to partake in the festivities.
Disney World’s Gingerbread Houses can be found at five of the Disney resorts.
Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa
The lobby of the Disney Grand Floridian is the location of a life-size gingerbread house. This enormous gingerbread house is impeccably detailed with 25 hidden Mickey’s, Disney characters around each window, snowflakes, sugar poinsettias, toy soldiers and even an 85lb Santa. If you can believe it required 1,050 pounds of honey, 140 pints of egg whites, 600 pounds of powdered sugar, 700pounds of chocolate, 800 pounds of flour, and 35 pounds of spices. It is just jaw dropping to see this masterpiece.
There is a shop selling sweet treats from 9:30am to 9:00pm during the holiday season. You will find items such as a Marshmallow Lollipop or M&M Sugar Cookie for $4 each to the 50th Anniversary Gingerbread House for $85.
Here are a few of the items that you will find for purchase…
- Marshmallow Lollipop
- M&M Sugar Cookie
- Gingerbread Man Lollipop
- 50th Celebration Cookie Pop
- Brownie Tree Pop
- Gingerbread Cookie Man
- Happy Holidays Mickey Face Lollipop
- Gingerbread Latte Whoopie Pie
- Milk Chocolate Pecan Fudge Bar
- Gingerbread Shingle with Dark Chocolate
- Gingerbread Mickey Ears with Earidescent Chocolate and so many more items…
Disney’s Contemporary Resort
The Disney Contemporary Resort’s gingerbread house is located on the same level as Chef Mickey. This is the 11th year of the gingerbread display at the Contemporary Resort. The castle was inspired by Mary Blair a prominent artist and animator for the Walt Disney company and was designed by the Walt Disney Imagineers with the white facade of “it’s a small world”. It is a Cinderella Castle 50th Anniversary Gingerbread with 11 hidden 5-legged goats!
Special sweet treats can be purchased here as well…
- Chocolate Peppermint Cookie
- 50th Anniversary Gingerbread
- Linzer Cookie
- Five-Legged Goat Cookie
- Family Tradition Cookie Box
- Contemporary Gingerbread Kit
- Dark Chocolate Peppermint Holiday Bar
- Hot Cocoa Bombs…
Disney’s Beach Club Resort
Upon walking into the beautiful lobby of the Disney’s Beach Club, the stunning life-sized carousel is center stage. What is even more magnificent is that this carousel also spins. This carousel is made up of impeccably detailed horses celebrating the Disney princesses.
Some of the treats you can find for purchase are:
- Gingerbread Shingles
- Signature Stollen Bread
- Candied Pecans
- Trio of Fudge
- Chocolate Mickey Cookie
- Crispy Rice Treat
- Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Snowman
- Peppermint Bark
- Chocolate Gingerbread Cookie (Gluten-Friendly)
- Gingerbread Cookie (Gluten-Friendly)
Disney’s BoardWalk Inn
The 2022 gingerbread house at Disney’s Boardwalk Inn is inspired by the Boardwalk Deli. This masterpiece is located in the lobby of the Disney’s Boardwalk Inn. The gingerbread house features 26 hidden Mickey’s.
Mickey and Minnie can be found spinning up some treats in the Deli’s kitchen.
Incredible details can be found throughout the gingerbread house with mini poinsettas on the tables, a popcorn machine, and decorations on the Christmas trees and many more.
Treats available for purchase this year are:
- Boardwalk Mickey Sugar Cookie
- Giant Gingerbread Mickey Cookie
- Mickey and Minnie Sugar Cookies
- Gluten-Friendly & Plant-based Gingerbread Mickey Cookie
- Artisan Peppermint Marshmallows
- Carnival Bark
- Gingerbread Frost Cocktail
Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge
This year, a Baby Zebra, Debra the Zebra, joined the life-sized Baby Gingerbread Giraffe, Ginger-affe at the Animal Kingdom Lodge. The display was created by Pastry Chef Lexy Ross and the Animal Kingdom Lodge Bakery Team. The display was created with 42 pounds of honey which was produced by 32,256 honey bees pollinating nearly 84 million flowers. One honey bee visits about 225,000 flowers in a single day.
The gingerbread giraffe and zebra can be found in the back of the lobby near the staircase to the safari.
Best way to see the Gingerbread
Start at the Ticket and Transportation Center
The best way to start to see Disney World’s Gingerbread Houses is to arrive at the Ticket and Transportation Center. The will be a monorail for the Resort Guests. This is the monorail you will want to take to the Grand Floridian Resort for your first stop. The monorail will take you to the second floor of the resort where you will be able to overlook the majestic lobby with the gingerbread house. Take the stairs or elevator to the right and go to the first floor and enjoy your first gingerbread house.
Grand Floridian to the Contemporary
The next Gingerbread house will be at the Contemporary Resort. Take the monorail from the Grand Floridian. The first stop will be at the Magic Kingdom and then the second stop will be at the Contemporary Resort. Once you exit the monorail and go down the escalator or elevator, go to the main hallway near the gift shop and turn left. The Castle can be found on the back wall with the sweet treats being sold to the left of the castle.
Contemporary to Beach Club Resort & Boardwalk Resort
The next stop would be to take the monorail to Magic Kingdom from the Contemporary. Upon your arrival at the Magic Kingdom, walk to the resort buses. Check the sign for which queue for the Beach Club Resort and take this bus over to view the carousel. Once your at the Beach Club and you have viewed the gingerbread, the next stop would be a lovely walk around the boardwalk to get to the Boardwalk Inn to view your next gingerbread. When you arrive to the back of the Boardwalk Inn, walk up the stairs to the lobby area and the Gingerbread Boardwalk Inn will be on your right.
Boardwalk Inn to Animal Kingdom Lodge
Once you have completed your visit to the Boardwalk Inn, pickup a resort bus to Magic Kingdom or to Animal Kingdom. Once you reach either park you will want to go to the Animal Kingdom Lodge bus stop and take the bus to the Jamba House stop which is the main lodge of the resort. You will find the giraffe and the baby zebra towards the rear of the main lobby overlooking the safari. Make sure to take a walk out to the safari as well to see what animals you may see.
Let the holiday festivities begin and what a wonderful way to get some magic all without spending the day at the park. Make sure to take a day and visit Disney World’s Gingerbread Houses. Let us know in the comments below what was your favorite gingerbread house this year!