Home sweet home! This mansion will not keep you warm, but hungry

Culture&Arts Nancy Frank
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It looks incredible! You would swear this is an authentic house, but it is actually made entirely of gingerbread.

The gingerbread house was exhibited at the Christmas fair in London, UK. It has a length of two meters and a height of about 1.2 meters.

It represents the faithful replica of Waddeston manor, a building dating from the nineteenth century, decorated in French style and located in Buckinghamshire.

The building belonged to the Rothschild family and it is fully comestible because bakers did not cheat. They used nothing but marzipan and sugar in the process of baking it. The house was made for presentation purposes, but if it had been for sale it would have exceeded £ 1,000.

Billiard rooms, leisure rooms, master bedroom and baron’s room are reproduced even in the smallest details. Making the couch and armchairs required 12 hours of work in order to comply the upholstery pattern.

The inventors of the sweet house inspired from Brothers’ Grimm ‘Hansel and Gretel’ where the cottage that was found deep in the woods was built out of bread and cakes, with sugar windowpanes.

The Rothschild family was a very wealthy family, descendant from Mayer Rothschild, a court Jew who was involved in the banking industry in the 1760s. Back then, the Rothschilds were the wealthiest people of 19^th century.

This family became so famous, that later on, in 1934, a movie was made about it. The House of Rothschild was written by Nunnally Johnson and directed by Alfred L. Werker. The plot tells the story of Rothschild family flourish.