These Adorable Gingerbread Houses Were Baked By Dublin Students

DUBLIN, CA — No gingerbread house made from a box ever looked this cool.

Dublin High School baking and pastry class students spent 1½ weeks designing, baking, building and decorating their gingerbread houses for the school's annual Gingerbread House Competition. A dozen houses were finalists, but teachers decided first place belonged to The Donut House, a colorful storefront with a display of iced Cheerio "donuts." Keziah Atendido, Chloe Felbinger, Audrey Ho and Michelle Li were the architects behind the prize-winning pastry.

Other creative designs featured sugar as snow, almond slivers or Chex Cereal as roof tiles, a windmill with a graham cracker propeller, peppermint bark gravel, a gingerbread train, a wagon with peppermint candy wheels and Christmas trees made of ice cream cones slathered in green icing.

There was a log cabin decorated with pretzel sticks, a gingerbread train, a castle with a blue icing moat and gummy bear guards, and the P.S. Matey, a gingerbread ship complete with portholes, pretzel stick masts and a string of icing Christmas lights.

See more photos of the students' art in the slideshow above or on this post: