• December 21, 2013
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Gingerbread Optimus Prime Wins

In my second year of university I started a tradition by inviting friends over before Christmas every year to host a Gingerbread house extravaganza. Too old for that? Hells no. It began with those pre-cooked kits where all we had to do was assemble the pieces with the provided icing.

For some absurd reason, these crappy kitsĀ still come with candies that are literally not edible with gingerbread (i.e. rock hard candies, mints and gum) so I always stockpiled on M&Ms. Anyway, year after year this quickly evolved into my mom helping bake our own gingerbread in creative shapes. One year we did a castle with a drawbridge, another year we did an epic pirate ship with a Fruit Roll-Up sail. Yes, my mom is awesome.

Tomorrow we do the same and our pal Tom and his wife and kids, along with some other friends, are coming over tomorrow to my own place to continue the annual tradition. They already made the dough so tomorrow we just bake it in a bunch of shapes and assemble. Nothing we have done or will do can compete with this masterpiece.

Gingerbread Optimus Prime

Artist Caroline Eriksson made this incredible Optimus Prime using over 700 pieces of gingerbread and won a large cash prize for doing so.

For a bonus laugh, read the clever, if highly inappropriate comments, in the Reddit thread where this Gingerbread masterpiece was shared.

Written by Rob Keyes