By Ashley Collman PUBLISHED: 12:22 EST, 13 December 2013 | UPDATED: 14:09 EST, 13 December 2013 It seems like the Holiday season starts earlier every year, with Christmas lights on store shelves in October, and carols on the radio before Thanksgiving. But for Bronx chef Jon Lovtich, the season started even earlier than most, last February. That's when he started constructing Gingerbread Lane, the entirely edible gingerbread village recently deemed the world's largest by Guinness World Records. (The world's largest gingerbread house went to a construction in Texas that didn't qualify for the edible prize since the frame was made of wood.)
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Gingerbread Lane was deemed the world's largest edible gingerbread village by Guinness World Records
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The cookie construction is on view at the New York Hall of Science in Queens until January 12
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It is made out of 400 pounds of candy, 500 pounds of gingerbread dough and 2,240 pounds of icing
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Chef Jon Lovitch baked and constructed the villages 164 buildings in his apartment for the past year
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He hopes to turn gingerbread into a full-time job, teaching and making similar constructions for a living
Ongoing project: Mr Lovitch started assembling the village as a whole this fall when he began driving the 164 structures from his apartment to the space in @placeholder.