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Photo courtesy the Four Seasons.

Gingerbread houses from kits never look this good. Four Seasons executive pastry chef Charles Froke has created a gingerbread Smithsonian Castle, which you can see at Seasons restaurant. Made with 100 pounds of gingerbread and 50 pounds of icing, the castle took over 100 hours to make and required blueprints. The piece is entirely edible — trees are made of chocolate and windows are made of sugar.

In past years, Froke has made gingerbread versions of the White House, National Cathedral and Capitol Building. The Castle will remain on view through early January.

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