I love making gingerbread houses because you get to get all creative with candy as decoration. Via Serious Eats, check out this sweet show of candy creativity:
In case you can’t tell, it’s a circuit board cake topper. I especially love the ingenious use of the sour belt as… um… you know… that thingie? That makes computers work and stuff?
Many thanks to James, who let me use his Flickr photo of his cake topper. Creativity credit goes to James’ girlfriend Sarah.
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