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Someone Recreated the Home Alone House Out of Gingerbread

By Rebecca Swanner | December 12, 2020 | Updated on July 17, 2024 | Leave a Comment
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When it comes to our favorite holiday movies, Home Alone is right up there next to Elf. It’s got everything you could want in a Christmas movie: slapstick, shenanigans, Catherine O’Hara. And, this year, Disney+ hired Michelle Wibowo to recreate the iconic Home Alone house out of gingerbread.

Home Alone House Gingerbread
Photo Credit: Disney+

It took sugar sculptor Wibowo more than 300 hours to recreate the McCallister home in gingerbread, but this 30th anniversary homage wasn’t her first architectural masterpiece. She’s also fashioned a portrait of Beyonce entirely out of cake pops and made a life-size Mr. Darcy out of cake.

Because if there’s anything we learned in 2020, it’s that everything is made from cake. Even this website!

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Where the gingerbread house really impresses is in its level of detail. It’s got 63 trees, 33 windows, and 14 pizza boxes like every other McMansion outside of Chicago.

Home Alone House Gingerbread - Michelle Wibowo
Photo Credit: Disney+

But this cookie home also has hidden paint cans, Marv and Harry, a.k.a the Wet Bandits, after they’ve gone though Kevin McCallister treacherous obstacle course, and the treehouse Kevin escapes to during one pivotal moment. And plenty more edible details all made out of sugar.

5 Awesome Details of the Home Alone Gingerbread House

1. The Wet Bandit’s Oh-Kay heating and plumbing van.

Home Alone House Gingerbread - Oh Kay Van for Marv Harry
Photo Credit: Disney+

 

2. The hot door handle that sears Harry’s hand.

Home Alone House Gingerbread - Door Detail
Photo Credit: Disney+

 

3. The Wet Bandits.

Home Alone House Gingerbread - Wet Bandits
Photo Credit: Disney+

 

4. Kevin’s neighbor, Marley and his handy snow shovel.

Home Alone House Gingerbread - Marley
Photo Credit: Disney+

 
5. Little Nero’s Pizza Delivery car and the jockey statue.

Home Alone House Gingerbread - Little Nero Pizza
Photo Credit: Disney+

 

How close is Wibowo’s cookie creation to the movie version from 1990? We think it’s pretty darn close, but you can decide. (Hint: the top one is the one in the movie.)
Home Alone House Gingerbread - Real Movie House vs Gingerbread House

 

If you want to follow in Wibowo’s footsteps, we recommend starting with her book, Showtopper Wedding Cakes. And then maybe pretty please building us a gingerbread version of the mansion from Clue.

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Rebecca Swanner
Founder + Editor-in-Chief at Let's Eat Cake
Pleased to meet you. I'm the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Let's Eat Cake: The world's first smart, funny lifestyle site for women.

I've written or worked for a wide range of lifestyle sites and magazines, including Billboard, Nylon, Parade, Men's Journal, Us Weekly, Stuff, Blender, Beachbody, Alternative Press, Electronic Gaming Monthly, and more. See more on my LinkedIn.

On the baking side of things, I've run my own baking company and competed on Cupcake Wars, so hit me up with your baking questions! I respond fastest on Instagram where you can find me @letseatcakeblog

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