“I have been so impressed by the scale of the gingerbread houses,” said Phillips ... of the following seven categories: youth, teen, adult, family, civic/business, pastry chef, or Christmas ...

Gingerbread houses had to be submitted the following week. There were six contestants for the contest. There were five entries for the youth category and one entry for the adult category.

This teal- and salmon-colored gingerbread-style cottage was built in 1870 and looks like it came straight out of a fairy tale ...