I think my obsession with gingerbread houses started when I was little, though at the time I didn’t realize it would become one. Jump to Gingerbread Recipe . Jump to Icing Recipe . Every year, we used to go to Bear Mountain for a meal with Santa Claus. It was held inside a massive stone lodge with an enormous fireplace, the kind of place that already felt magical before anything festive was added. And right there in the middle of the room was a gingerbread house so large i