Disney World Gingerbread Houses Ranked 2024 Dates, Menus

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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.

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For Christmas 2022, all of the horses celebrate a different Disney princess. Gingerbread houses and displays are already going up at Walt Disney World for Christmas 2022, with several brand-new, returning, and newly-returning displays in the resort hotels and EPCOT (plus one at Disneyland!). This post will covers opening dates, details, and food & drink menus for each, plus our hope for a Festivus miracle last-minute addition to the lineup. This stunning life-size storybook gingerbread house with “cinnamon clouds” puffing from the chimney is beautifully decorated with white chocolate candy canes, edible snowflakes, and sugar poinsettias. Treats for sale include house-made Gingerbread Houses and Gingerbread Ornaments. Which of this year’s gingerbread displays are you most excited to see?

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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You'll also want to read about Flurry of Fun—the Christmas celebration at Hollywood Studios, the Epcot International Festival of the Holidays, and the Holiday Celebrations at Animal Kingdom. It’s very different from the houses we’ve seen in the past that have featured mainly red and green. Over in the lobby of Disney’s Beach Club Resort, the classic carousel will be returning for Christmas 2023. I believe it went up November 1 last year; if so, that would be the same date as last year.

A place where Halloween and Christmas collide provides unexpected gingerbread surprise with attention to fine details you'd see in a work of art. Now, let’s blast off to Disney’s Contemporary Resort where their gingerbread display is back once again for its 12th year led by Pastry Chef Jeff Barnes! It stands over 17 feet tall with 612 pounds of sugar, 1012 pounds of flour, 112 pounds of gingerbread spice, over 4000 castle gingerbread bricks, and 12 sprinklings of magical pixie dust! And, be sure to keep your eyes peeled with the 12 hidden five-legged goats. There are several Disney World Resort hotels located in the Epcot area that have gingerbread displays. They aren’t as large as Contemporary or Grand Floridian, but they’re still quite impressive.

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.

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.

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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