ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — For 23 Christmases, the lobby inside Disney's Grand Floridian Resort has become an attraction thanks to the smell of gingerbread.
Chef Kristine Farmer has been decorating a larger-than-life gingerbread house since the very beginning. This huge house is inside the resort's lobby during the Christmas season.
Farmer leads a culinary team of 30 people to construct and decorate it.
The flowers on the gingerbread house are made of gum paste. They're airbrushed with a surprising ingredient. “We actually use vodka to mix with the colors because vodka evaporates very quickly and you don't want to wet the flower,” she tells us.
We're in the midst of Walt Disney World Resort's 50th anniversary celebration. So new this year are the 50th EARidescent flowers and the hand-painted character windows.
The wooden structure of the gingerbread house is reused every year.