Baker Sherry Kozlowskiā€™s gingerbread house is more like a gingerbread block. She spent 40 hours crafting the gingerbread tribute to her Queens neighborhood.

ā€œThis is my imaginary block of goodness. This is all the shops that I shop at regularly, if they were all in one block,ā€ said Kozlowski, who used melted gummy bears to keep the pieces of the house together.

Kozlowskiā€™s Astoria creation was the ā€œBest Overallā€ award winner in "Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bake-Off." The Museum of the City of New York invited well-known bakeries and amateur bakers from around the five boroughs to participate, with the results now on display at the museum.

ā€œIt was just the perfect way of highlighting the city and architectural monuments and places that are near and dear to everyoneā€™s hearts,ā€ said Whitney Donhauser, director and president of the in East Harlem museum.

Other highlights include a Gingerbread Staten Island Ferry, from Brunoā€™s Bakery on Staten Island, of course. Thereā€™s also a scene from the Bronxā€™s Little Italy on Arthur Avenue from Egidio Pastry Shop, which has been around since 1912.

John Kuehn baked up a storm to bring the Madison Square Park area to gingerbread life, including the Shake Shack and the iconic Flatiron Building. Kuehn has experience as both a baker and an architect, a seemingly perfect combo for this project.

ā€œI wanted this to be recognizable, and I think for me what would make it recognizable and a sense of realness to it was really the scale and the proportion of the buildings to one another and the park,ā€ said Kuehn.

This was Kuehnā€™s first gingerbread house, taking the prize for ā€œGrandest.ā€ Kozlowski is a veteran of baking competitions, and loved being part of this one, which is really all about a beloved holiday tradition, the gingerbread house.

ā€œItā€™s whimsical it takes you back to a time that doesnā€™t exist anymore and it lets you enjoy the holidays as they are meant to be enjoyed,ā€ said Kozlowski.

The gingerbread creations are on display at the museum through Jan. 8. While you canā€™t eat them, you might want to plan a visit to get some gingerbread immediately once you leave.

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