Woman Makes Incredible Alien And Groot Gingerbread Sculptures

Christmas means sipping hot choccy in front of the fireplace with your loved ones around you. But most of all, Christmas means gingerbread cookies! Now, there are some people who build gingerbread houses, which is all well and good. But have you ever tried making something… bigger?

Well, Norwegian food artist and motion designer Caroline Eriksson has! And her designs are much, much bigger than you’d expect when you hear the word ‘gingerbread.’

Every Christmas, she designs and bakes incredibly detailed (and delicious) gingerbread sculptures. This year, she made Groot from “Guardians of the Galaxy.” Which might even be more impressive than last year’s creation—the Xenomorph from “Alien.” Grab yourselves some gingerbread cookies, scroll down for Bored Panda’s interview with the artist, and enjoy.

And when you’re done ‘snacking’ on this post, check out our previous article about Caroline’s awesome Smaug sculpture from “The Hobbit.”

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Here’s Caroline’s amazing Xenomorph gingerbread sculpture from last year

Caroline has baked gingerbread statues since 2013 when she won a Norwegian baking contest, and every year she surprises her fans with new and impressive gingerbread art.

For this Christmas, Caroline made a gingerbread version of Groot from ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’

It took the artist around 5 weeks to make Groot, and she had to add lots of syrup and flour to make the dough thick enough to support the sculpture. She even built the gingerbread sculpture around a metal frame to make sure that it wouldn’t collapse.

“To make gingerbread houses has been a tradition in my family every Christmas since I was little,” Caroline told Bored Panda.

“But eventually, I got tired of building houses and started building other things like boats and towers,” she said. “In 2013, I entered a contest, ‘Build Norway’s craziest gingerbread house and win 40,000 Norwegian krone [4,505 dollars]’ and had the idea to build a Transformer.”

“I won the contest and that’s where it started! Now, every year, I try to challenge myself to build something more difficult and break the boundaries for what can be done in this material!” Caroline explained to us.

“My inspiration comes from movies, pop culture! I especially like fantasy and sci-fi, I’m a big movie-nerd,” the artist revealed.