Disneyland unveils this year’s Haunted Mansion Holiday gingerbread mansion, featuring Oogie Boogie

The centerpiece of the 6-foot high Haunted Mansion Holiday gingerbread house at Disneyland this year features Oogie Boogie.

The 2017 Haunted Mansion Holiday Gingerbread Mansion in a Disney  publicity photo.

For 17 years there has bene a Haunted Mansion Holiday gingerbread mansion and 13 years since Oogie Boogie was in the ballroom, according to the Disney Parks Blog.

Every year the Haunted Mansion is transformed as the characters from Tim Burton’s A Nightmare Before Christmas take over the mansion. In the ballroom are these gingerbread houses. This year the mansion as a bug problem – gingerbread bugs, Tim Wollweber, associate art director for Disney Parks, who designed this year’s house, said.

But Oogie Boogie can fix that. “He pried open the roof of the gingerbread mansion and has his fork at the ready, happy to fix the infestation in the only way he would – by eating them,” Wollweber said.

While Wollweber designed the house it was built with the help of Disneyland Resort Central Bakery – Executive Pastry Chef Jean-Marc Viallet and Lead Pastry Chef Edgar Urtola.

It took 200 hours to make this house using the the following:

• 200 pounds gingerbread 
• 200 pounds powdered sugar
• 50 pounds gum paste
• 50 pounds fondant 
• 30 pounds white chocolate 
• 16 ounces green food coloring 
• 8 ounces (each) food coloring (blue, purple, orange, yellow, red) 
• 4 gallons egg whites 
• 1 gallon lemon juice 
• 1/3 pound glitte