It Is The Time Of The Year,

for gingerbread,

and here he is, the gingerbread man, photographs Caroline Eriksson/Instagram, Norwegian cake artist Caroline Eriksson recently went viral for an awe-inspiring sculpture of Groot made exclusively out of gingerbread, her career in making gingerbread started just before Christmas of 2013, when Caroline Eriksson showed off her edible Optimus Prime, a complex, edible sculpture made up of between 700 and 800 individual pieces of gingerbread, photographs of her very first gingerbread wonder got a lot attention on social media, particularly on Reddit, and even won Eriksson the grand prize of 40,000 NOK ($6,500) in a gingerbread contest,

since then, she has been dedicating all her free time in the two months leading up to Christmas every year to designing, baking and putting together the most amazing gingerbread sculptures,

this year for Christmas it is an ultra-realistic Groot model,

last year it was a detailed xenomorph, She has also fine tuned the making-of process as well, starting off with a metal skeleton for her creations, and then using a custom recipe to create gingerbread pieces that she can mold and piece together as she likes, “It’s an iron structure inside with sculptured gingerbread on top: …I made an inner skeleton with correct proportions, and then drew pieces/ designs to fit on top of it …” the artist wrote in an Instagram post. “I’ve altered the usual recipe a bit to make it stronger – so I wouldn’t recommend for eating, but I’m using twice the amount of syrup, and no baking powder. It makes the gingerbread harder and gives it a smoother surface! …There’s a whole lot of melted sugar to keep it together!” but above is just her work for a couple of months before Christmas, f you want to see what she is up to for the rest of the year you can follow here here, Caroline Eriksson on Instagram, they just look too good to eat!