History Main / GingerbreadHouse

* In one ''Anime/SailorMoon'' NonSerialMovie, the {{Mooks}} of the big bad cast an illusion over the senshi that causes them to see the playground they were fighting in as a gingerbread house.
* During an episode of ''{{Manga/MAR}}'', the team (specifically, Princess Snow) fights against an ugly little girl whose signature ARM is the Gingerbread House - a house of sweets. Eating it makes her grow to sumo-like proportions, gaining superhuman strength and toughness in the process. And of course, as she grows bigger, her voice grows deeper and thicker. (Also, she turns into a {{Gonk}}.)
* One such house plays into the backstory of Hansel and Gretel in ''Anime/FairyMusketeers''.

* The barrier of Charlotte in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' is a particularly grim example of this trope.

* The Gingerbread Man is shown building one in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekFourD'', before it ends up getting destroyed.

* ''TabletopGames/{{GURPS}}'' ''Bio-Tech'' offers the concept of biological buildings which are made of flesh, and alive. As an option, you might have the walls grow redundant sections which can be eaten, and regrown.

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* ''TabletopGames/{{GURPS}}'' ''Bio-Tech'' offers the concept of biological buildings which are made of flesh, and alive. As an option, you might have the walls grow redundant sections which can be eaten, and regrown.
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* ''Literature/GothicHospital'' begins with the narrator describing his dream world, starting with a steam train droping him off at an unattended station which at first appears to conform to this trope, appearing to have been constructed of various candies, but is revealed to be made of [[SubvertedTrope normal materials]], largely concrete cast into the shapes of piles of confectioneries and painted, apparently in an attempt to lift the morale of children being sent to the titular hospital.

* ''GURPS'' ''Bio-Tech'' offers the concept of biological buildings which are made of flesh, and alive. As an option, you might have the walls grow redundant sections which can be eaten, and regrown.

* A witch with a gingerbread house shows up in ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIQuestForTheCrown''. If Sir Graham tries to eat from the house, she'll turn him into [[IncrediblyLamePun a Graham cracker]].

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* ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'': See ''Literature'', below.

* ''CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' (both the book and the movie) features a house made of Jello.
* Shrek and Fiona stayed in one for the honeymoon in the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} 2''.
** The Gingerbread Man is shown building one in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekFourD'', before it ends up getting destroyed.

* ''CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' (both the book and the movie) features a house made of Jello.

* Shrek and Fiona stayed in one for the honeymoon in the beginning of ''{{WesternAnimation/Shrek}} 2''.

* Subverted in the {{Whoniverse}} book ''Literature/TimeLordFairyTales'': The titular "Gingerbread Trap" just ''looks'' like one of these to lure hungry kids inside, and is actually a prison cell.

* In ''{{Webcomic/Pibgorn}}'', after Geoff's house was destroyed, Dru magics up [[http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2002/11/07 a new one]] to replace it.

* In one Creator/ChuckJones ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short, Jerry hides inside a huge wheel of swiss cheese and sculpts out a home inside.
* On ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', the Neptunians working for Robot Santa Claus beg for food despite living in gingerbread houses because "it's either food or shelter, not both."

* Gourmet cooking schools and architecture firms sometimes compete to build elaborate gingerbread castles, clocks, entire doll villages, and other structures (usually no bigger than table size). Traditionally these are fundraisers for charities that benefit children. Though they look beautiful, by the time the contest is over the strucutures are generally so stale and dried-out as to be inedible (and some contests permit glues or preserving sprays that aren't meant to be eaten).

* One such house plays into the backstory of Hansel and Gretel in ''Anime/OtogiJuushiAkazukin''.
* Toriko of ''{{Manga/Toriko}}'' lives in one, which he does eat, as well as the neighboring animals. It must be periodically rebuilt, much to the dismay of the architect.

* The Sugarcube Corner bakery in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has the gingerbread house look going for it, though if it's actually edible is anypony's guess. The fandom has widely adopted the idea that [[SubvertedTrope it's made out of ordinary construction materials]].

* In ''Literature/ATaleOf'', a series that serves as a TwiceToldTale retelling of the DisneyAnimatedCanon, the overarching BigBad trio of the Odd Sisters lives in one of these.

* German comdedy band ''Die Doofen'' had the song ''Ich bau dir ein Haus aus Schweinskopfsülze'' (I'll build a house of pork aspic for you)

* In ''ATaleOf'', a series that serves as a TwiceToldTale retelling of the DisneyAnimatedCanon, the overarching BigBad trio of the Odd Sisters lives in one of these.

* Sugarcube Corner in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has the gingerbread house look going for it, though if it's actually edible is anypony's guess.

* Partial example: In one ''Manga/SailorMoon'' NonSerialMovie, the {{Mooks}} of the big bad cast an illusion over the senshi that causes them to see the playground they were fighting in as a gingerbread house.

* In one ChuckJones ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short, Jerry hides inside a huge wheel of swiss cheese and sculpts out a home inside.

* Toriko of ''{{Manga/Toriko}}'' lives in one, which he does eat, as well as the neighboring animals. It must be periodically rebuilt, much to the dismay of the architect.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' featured, in a warped version of "Hansel and Gretel," a gingerbread house. Homer starts eating it, of course, prompting it to collapse. The witch yells "You fool! That was a load-bearing candy cane!"

* ''ElChavoDelOcho'': Doña Clotilde told the tale to El Chavo, Quico and La Chillindrina. When she recalled how she liked hearing her mother telling the tale, the kids thought her mother was the witch from the tale.

* The barrier of Charlotte in ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' is a particularly grim example of this trope.

Sistertrope of LevelAte. This often, but not always, overlaps with GiantFood and {{Bizarrchitecture}}.