KENT, Conn.—The days have dwindled down for viewing the creative and colorful gingerbread creations on display at 10 businesses in the village center.
Christmas has to be tough for the Jolly Old Elf and his assistants. Here, in a gingerbread display at oHHo, 27 North Main Street, #1, Mr. and Mrs. Claus get a well-deserved spa treatment on Dec. 26, while a reindeer soaks his weary haunches. The scene was created for the 14th annual Gingerbread Festival by Amy Bocompani and Kathleen Rossetti. Photo by Kathryn Boughton
It is the 14th year the Chamber of Commerce has celebrated the Gingerbread Festival, which continues through the end of the month.
Residents and visitors can still take part in the scavenger hunt, collecting clues at each gingerbread display to decipher a riddle. Once solved, the completed riddle can be brought to The Heron Shop, 16 North Main St., to claim a well-earned prize.
Participants can also vote for their favorite creation and help crown the winner of the People’s Choice Award.
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The flavorful masterpieces are on display Thursday through Sunday, offering visitors plenty of opportunities to see them. Maps are available at the participating businesses in town and below.
Christmas isn’t always snowy and white. Melissa and Brittany Hrabcsak created a beach scene for Santa and his reindeer for the 2025 Chamber of Commerce Gingerbread Festival. It is on display at The Heron, 16 North Main St. Photo by Kathryn BoughtonEven youngsters got into the act this year for the 14th annual Gingerbread Festival. Kent School students created three cheerful traditional gingerbread houses that are on display at No. 109 Cheese Market, 6 Kent Green Blvd. Photo by Kathryn Boughton
Ginger artist Tom Doyle, who has created gingerbread displays for Foreign Cargo, 17 North Main St, for many years, has triumphed again with his inventive “Gingerbread Snowglobe. It is on view through December. Photo by Kathryn Boughton
A festive gingerbread train created for the Chamber of Commerce’s 14th annual Gingerbread Festival by executive pastry chef April Massey is displayed in the window of Wilson’s. Photo by Kathryn BoughtonRose Prause of Rosie’s Kitchen created the Grinch and his dog, Max, glowering down on the cheerful town of Whoville for the 2025 Gingerbread Festival. It is on display at the House of Books. Photo by Kathryn Boughon
Kathryn Boughton has been editor of the Kent Dispatch since its digital reincarnation in October 2023 as a nonprofit online publication. A native of Canaan, Conn., Kathryn has been a regional journalist...
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