Costco's Giant Gingerbread Mansion Comes With a Whole Pound of Icing & Candy

It comes with plenty of icing and candy, and regular gingerbread houses are shaking.

Not the actual product, but a very-much opulent gingerbread house. | nautilus_shell_studios/E+/Getty Images
Not the actual product, but a very-much opulent gingerbread house. | nautilus_shell_studios/E+/Getty Images

In typical Costco fashion, the wholesale retailer is selling huge "gingerbread mansions" for about $12, because regular-sized gingerbread houses are apparently not big enough.

The holiday mansion, made by dessert manufacturer Create A Treatcomes pre-built after a genius at corporate realized that people just want to skip to the decorating. The kit comes with more than a pound of icing and candy to make sure no surface goes unadorned.

Structurally, the mansion bears a similar shape to a standard gingerbread house, with one major difference: It has a fun little protuberance sticking out from the roof. In architectural terms, we'd call that a dormer. The more you know.

The added dimension on the gingerbread mansion makes it a bit more realistic—granted, nobody is expecting your candy centerpiece to look realistic—and, more importantly, allows for additional decorating possibilities.

Leave it to Costco to supersize our holiday traditions.

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