Photo Gallery: Island Hotel’s ‘Wizard of Oz’ gingerbread display
“The Wonderful World of Island Hotel,” a gingerbread display of “The Wizard of Oz,” is on exhibit at the hotel in Newport Beach. It is made up of 400 pounds of gingerbread dough, 300 pounds of fondant, 100 pounds of chocolate, 200 pounds of various candies and 200 pounds of powdered sugar.
(Scott Smeltzer / Staff Photographer )The Island Hotel’s gingerbread display of “The Wizard of Oz” has a yellow brick road made of sugar cookies colored yellow and red.
(Scott Smeltzer / Staff Photographer)The Tin Man’s heart is part of the display in “The Wonderful World of Island Hotel,” a gingerbread representation of “The Wizard of Oz.”
(Scott Smeltzer / Staff Photographer)This foot-tall Scarecrow is part of “The Wonderful World of Island Hotel,” a gingerbread display of “The Wizard of Oz” at the hotel in Newport Beach.
(Scott Smeltzer / Staff Photographer)The Wicked Witch of the West finds The Wicked Witch of the East crushed under Dorothy’s house in “The Wonderful World of Island Hotel,” a gingerbread display of “The Wizard of Oz” on exhibit at the Newport Beach hotel.
(Scott Smeltzer / Staff Photographer)The Wicked Witch of the West flies on her broom in “The Wonderful World of Island Hotel” gingerbread display of “The Wizard of Oz” on exhibit at the hotel.
(Scott Smeltzer / Staff Photographer)The Tin Man makes his way along the yellow brick road in “The Wonderful World of Island Hotel,” a gingerbread display of “The Wizard of Oz.”
(Scott Smeltzer / Staff Photographer)Dorothy’s ruby slippers are part of the Island Hotel’s gingerbread display of “The Wizard of Oz.”
(Scott Smeltzer / Staff Photographer)The Wicked Witch of the West is represented in “The Wonderful World of Island Hotel,” a gingerbread display of “The Wizard of Oz” at the hotel in Newport Beach.
(Scott Smeltzer / Staff Photographer)The Island Hotel’s gingerbread display of “The Wizard of Oz” reads “No Place Like Island.”
(Scott Smeltzer / Staff Photographer)