DENVER (KDVR) -- Local pastry makers and engineers are making a new meaning for "home sweet home" as they work to build a 12-foot tall mountain cabin out of gingerbread and sweets.

The life-size gingerbread house will debut at the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center later this month for the holiday season. The resort said guests will be able to smell it throughout the lobby.

“We keep the spices in the dough to ensure the house fills the air with a warm gingerbread aroma,” Brielle Fratellone, executive pastry chef and head of 5280 Pastry said in a press release.

Work for the project has been underway since the concept was developed in July. Engineering and construction began in September and bakers began on the 450 pounds of gingerbread that the plan calls for at the beginning o

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