Disney World Gingerbread Houses: A Complete Guide

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• FIRST LOOK: Musical Score Full of Disney Movie Music Revealed for ‘Luminous: The Symphony of Us’ Coming to EPCOT
• MORE Disney World Holiday INFO!
• Disney World Gingerbread Houses Ranked – 2024 Dates, Menus
• American Adventure Gingerbread Display
• Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa
• Disney World’s Gingerbread Houses Are Returning! Here’s Where To Find Them - Inside the Magic

You can also find limited-time holiday treats at select Beach Club dining locations. Sometimes there are special pin and/or merchandise signings with a pastry chef, but dates and times vary. The house features white chocolate candy canes, edible snowflakes, sugar poinsettias, and over 10,000 pieces of gingerbread. Chocolate Santa, nutcrackers, toy soldiers, and snowmen that are all hand-painted by the Grand Floridian Bakery team led by Pastry Chef de Cuisine Kristine Farmer. Next to the display, you can also typcially purchase holiday drinks and treats, including frozen non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks.

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All across this house, you’ll find white chocolate candy canes, edible snowflakes, sugar poinsettias, and over 10,000 pieces of gingerbread. Chocolate Santa (yes, you heard that right), nutcrackers, toy soldiers, and snowmen that are all hand-painted by the Grand Floridian Bakery team led by Pastry Chef de Cuisine Kristine Farmer. The 500 hours spent baking gingerbread and 480 hours spent decorating are well worth it.

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This display includes miniature versions of various BoardWalk venues. There are so many ways to celebrate the holiday season in Disney World — and not all of them require a ticket. You’ll find plenty of people visiting these displays who aren’t staying at the respective hotel — especially for Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.

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Located in the hotel’s lobby, the house is made with real gingerbread and will sell a variety of holiday treats throughout the season. Gingerbread houses and displays are already going up at Walt Disney World for Christmas 2023, with new and returning larger-than-life displays in the resort hotels. This post shares details, plus likely opening dates and last year’s food & drink menus for each. Disney’s Yacht Club Resort will have a gingerbread display for the first time this year.

Decorations at the resorts go up gradually, typically starting the first week of November and continuing through the days leading up to Thanksgiving. Which resort gets decorated first varies from year to year, with decor at the resorts usually being taken down shortly after New Year’s Day. If you're still picking dates, we've got everything you need to know about Disney World crowd calendars.

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Alternatively, if you have other reasons to be on Disney property, you can get to the hotel via Disney transportation from all four parks and from Disney Springs (Disney Springs, by the way, has free parking). The treats were being displayed on a table when we went to check out the house this morning. Matching 50th gingerbread ornaments you can eat are being sold as one of the treats you can get from the house.

Disney’s Beach Club Resort Gingerbread Carousel

Also, available for purchase are some sweet delights sold at the Holiday Pop Up Shop, including the new Lighthouse Fudge, which is a nod to this new offering. We can smell that delicious cozy scent all through Disney’s Grand Floridian because the beautiful, iconic gingerbread house is officially complete and open! Unless you have a dining reservation at the resort you are visiting, we don’t recommend you drive, as parking spaces are reserved for resort guests and those with dining reservations.

Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa

During busy times of the year (like the holidays), parking at the resorts is reserved for resort guests and those with dining reservations. Ever since 1999 (for 22 years!), Disney’s Beach Club has been showcasing its special gingerbread display — a life-sized carousel that actually rotates. In addition to the treats available for purchase by the gingerbread house, you can find special holiday treats at select Grand Floridian dining locations. We love reading all the ingredients that go into crafting these massive displays, including how much of everything is used. While Disney’s Polynesian doesn’t have a gingerbread display, it’s still worth seeing the hotel’s themed-decorations and Christmas tree. We recommend hopping on the Monorail and visiting all of the Monorail resorts to see their Christmas decorations.

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This year's offering will be similar (as seen above) but likely with a Walt Disney World 100th Anniversary twist. The Beach Club resort is located within walking distance of EPCOT along with the Disney Skyliner. If you are staying at a Skyliner resort then you could easily take the Skyliner over to the Beach Club.

It’s open from Nov. 10 through Jan. 6, 2024 (usually from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Last year’s gingerbread house had a color scheme to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney World. With just a couple of days to go until its official opening, this year’s gingerbread house at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa appears to be complete. Guests can also view the unique gingerbread display inside Haunted Mansion Holiday. Unfortunately, the absolute place place at Walt Disney World during Christmas-time doesn’t sound like it’ll have an edible creation this year. Of course, we’re talking about Wilderness Lodge–which is well worth a visit in the evening to see the resort at its festive best.

It’s possible this would’ve been a one-and-done regardless, but we doubt that. It was a pretty big hit with guests, and made for a popular snack spot at Wilderness Lodge. Of course, we’re biased towards all things Wilderness Lodge (it’s the best place at Walt Disney World during the holiday season!) but we’d really love to see this return. Unfortunately, with today’s announcement about which gingerbread houses will return, Walt Disney World hasn’t released debut dates for the gingerbread houses. However, we do have data from the last couple of years (and precedent from long before) that should help narrow down a window for those visiting Walt Disney World early in the Christmas 2023 season. The life-size gingerbread baby giraffe (Ginger) and zebra (Debra) will return to the Jambo House lobby at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge from November 22 through December 31.

This duo is created by the bakery team led by Pastry Chef Lexy Ross. These creations are made with a combination of gingerbread, sugar dough, and modeling chocolate and the giraffe stands nearly 7 feet tall. Tasty treats include the Gingeraffe Cookie, Hot Cocoa Flight, and beer, wine, and cocktails.

This new Walt Disney World gingerbread house is designed by Pastry Chef de Cuisine Michael Craig and is modeled after the actual blueprints from the lighthouse along Crescent Lake as seen in the photo above. The Disney World gingerbread displays have not yet been announced for the 2024 season, but you can see last year's rankings below for reference. At Disney’s Hollywood Studios, you can enjoy the new Disney Jollywood Nights, while Magic Kingdom brings back Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party. And, of course, the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays kicks off at the park in late November.

Both onsite and offsite guests can visit the resorts to check out their displays. This is the 12th year the Contemporary Bakery team created the resort’s gingerbread display with help from lead Pastry Chef Jeff Barnes. The Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort lobby will be remodeled next year. The project was delayed and then officially pushed to 2024 so as not to interfere with the gingerbread house display.

As soon as guests walk into the hotel lobby, they will find a life-size holiday house featuring more than 10,000 pieces of gingerbread. The house, which was built using a classic recipe from Austria, is celebrating its 20th year in the resort and acts as a sweet shop selling freshly baked house-made items. The gingerbread house at the Grand Floridian is one of the most iconic holiday decorations throughout Disney World. It’s made up of over 1,000 pieces of gingerbread and an 85-pound chocolate Santa. In our experience, the gingerbread displays at the resorts are built or installed over the course of several days, and reach finished form a few days before their official start date. Once again missing from this list is Humphrey the Bear’s gingerbread cabin at Wilderness Lodge, which debuted in 2019 and hasn’t returned in the two years since other displays started reappearing.

The holiday carousel gingerbread display will return to Disney’s Beach Club Resort for its 22nd year, and feature 22 hidden Mickeys. This year, the carousel is inspired by Ducktales, with the horses themed after Donald Duck and his nephews, Huey, Duey, and Louie. The carousel, which actually moves, is constructed using 434 pounds of honey, 25 pounds of spices, and 200 pounds of icing. Yes, the Grand Floridian gingerbread house is made of real gingerbread along with all the other Disney World gingerbread houses. Well, it is possible and it is actually fairly convenient to rely on Disney World transportation for many of them. The top Walt Disney World gingerbread display is easily the life-sized Grand Floridian Resort & Spa gingerbread Victorian style house.