IF you think that this Christmas window decoration looks good enough to eat, you’d be right.

Flavours School of Cookery in Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, has created this giant gingerbread house for the festive season.

It is now on show in its window in Boscombe East.

The team there made a similar house two years ago, but on a much smaller scale.

With the help of children who have taken classes at the school – Morgan Kirkpatrick, Ella McFarland, Ella and Issy Hioco and Phoebe Langdon – they started on the morning of Sunday, November 2, and had the house in place by the next afternoon.

They went through 18 kilos of flour and five litres of molasses to make nearly 300 gingerbread bricks to cover the house.

The team produced five batches of Royal Icing – a total of 12.5 kilos to glue the bricks and sweets – before adding two three-kilo bags of liquorice allsorts, one 2.75kg bag of Smarties and one three-kilo bag of jelly beans, just for the roof.

Other sweets were used to decorate the windows, doors and walls – everything on the house is edible.

Flavours is owned by Des and Amy Burke. Des said: “It was just something that the kids love. There was a debate as to whether to paint the house brown, but we said we had to make the gingerbread.

“You could whip a bit off and chew it.

“We’ve already had people coming in wanting to take photos next to it and wanting to lick it.

“It’s just a really good thing.”