2021 Gingerbread Showcase Baker Registration​

​Habitat for Humanity Victoria’s premier fundraiser, The Gingerbread Showcase, is back for its 13th year! We are inviting home chefs and professional bakers, along with artists, designers, architects and more to sign up for this year’s event. Show off your talent, skill and imagination while helping us create this holiday favourite. Registration is now open, so if you are looking for a fall project - we need you! 

The Showcase will be open to the public Saturday, November 20, 2021 to Sunday January 2, 2022.​

​Please note that limited spaces are available.

Showcase Theme 2021 - The Future of Home

​The theme for the 13th annual Gingerbread Showcase is The Future of Home as we invite Bakers to take a look forward, going beyond the build to consider how we might live and what changes we could make to create a brighter future for everyone. Share your hopes for our homes, communities and the environment we share in this new future, full of exciting possibilities!

Showcase Entry Rules for your Gingerbread Creation:

​Dimensions 
Creations must reside on a solid base that measures 61cm x 61cm (24 inches x 24 inches). No part of the creation may extend over the edge of the base.

A pre-cut wooden base can be picked up at one of two ReStores: Westshore, 849 Orono Ave or Uptown, 3311H Oak St. Confirmed participants will be contacted when the wooden base is available for pick-up. 
 
Your creation must be a minimum of 45 cm (18 inches) in height.
 
Specifications
All components must be edible with the exception of the sheet of plywood on which your creation is built. Please note that entries containing prohibited elements (non-edible) will not qualify for formal judging and may be displayed at an alternate location, such as a Habitat ReStore.

Each participant must take full responsibility for transporting their creation to the Parkside Hotel & Spa and for setting it up on a stand which will be provided by Habitat for Humanity Victoria.

To give you some ideas, view examples of Gingerbread Showcase creations from the past three years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Award Categories

• ​Best first impression
• Best use of skill & technique
• Best interpretation of the theme
• Most creative and original
• Most diverse use of ingredients
• The People's Choice Award – as voted for by showcase visitors

Judging Criteria

Judges will use the following criteria to determine awards:

• First impression
• Use of gingerbread
• Clearly interprets the theme
• Structural integrity
• Skill and technique
• Overall concept and design (proportion, unity of composition, flow of the design)
• Creativity/Originality/Artistic merit 
• Diversity of ingredients