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2025 GINGERBREAD HOUSE CONTEST WINNERS

The people have spoken, and the Gingerbread Contest winners are hereby announced!

This year's competition was tougher than ever with Newton's gingerbread baker/makers becoming ever more creative and technically adept.

We are grateful for all their entries and to the MANY community members who stopped by City Hall to admire the exhibit and cast their votes.

The people we observed voting were taking their task very seriously and had a hard time picking winners—the final counts were very close! And we even have a tie!

Congratulations to all who entered Newton's 2025 Newton Gingerbread Exhibit & Contest! See this year's winners below.

INDIVIDUAL YOUTH CATEGORY

WINNERS:

“Sweet Escape” by Blake Ghoshhajra

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“The Magical Village of the Gingerbread Men” by Clarissa De Rienzo

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RUNNERS UP:

“Vinyl” by Persephone Cassidy-Benson

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“Ice Skating Fun” by Abby O'Connor

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“Gingerball” by Eli Monokroussos

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“Wicked Sweet Cottage” by Juliet Grenzke

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YOUTH TEAM CATEGORY

WINNERS:

GBC 2025 winners with medals (2)

“Snoopy Holiday House”

Team: The Cool People
Matilda De Rienzo & Raina Jathar

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“Frosty’s Candy Vacation Villa”

Team: C Squared
Charlotte Dolan & Charlotte Kuronen

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RUNNERS UP:

"#67 Snowy Mountain”

Team: Fluffernutters
Lucy Neumann, Rose Fulham, & Ellie Howarth

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“Winter Wonderland”

Team: Gingerbread Ladies
Isabel Rein & Alma Jockusch Offen

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“Elf Forest”

Team: Candy Crushers
Zoe & Hannah Whittaker

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“Frosted”

Team: Frosted
Sihan Jhunjhunwala, Aanya & Atharv Minnah

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“Santa’s Workshop”

Team: The Best of the Best Construction
Foster & Ellery Abram

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INDIVIDUAL ADULT CATEGORY

WINNERS:

“The Mouse Who Stayed For Christmas ” by Andrea Hemment

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“Silent Night” by Kathryn Holt

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RUNNER UP:

“Lobster Shack” by Erica Rolston

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ADULT TEAM CATEGORY

WINNERS:

“Snow Place Like Home”

Team: There’s Snow Place Like Home
Elizabeth Brill & Lauren Twardy

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“Cozy Camper”

Team: Sugar and Spice
Baha Asefzadeh & Samia Singer

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“The Pink Cottage”

Team: 615 Candyland Drive
Sophia, Johnny & Izzy Lee

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RUNNERS UP:

“Star of Wonder, Star of Mass Pike”

Team: Walnut Street Builders
Alexis Larios & Eric Thompson

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“Under the Auroras”

Team: The Elves
Sara Kaminski & Cora Myers

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“Home is where the Heart is”

Team: Coldwell Hammond Elves
Anne Kennedy, Marsha MacLean, Heather Flyn Mulford, Judy Korzenwoski, Valerie Wastcoat, Barbara Hakim, Eileen Strong O'Boy, Eda Mayer & Tina Sacks

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