Gingerbread houses are a Christmas staple, but The Ritz-Carlton in Marana, Arizona decided to go a different direction. That’s a bit of an understatement as they created a gingerbread Jeep Wrangler.
As you can see in the time lapse video, the build process started with a first-generation Wrangler which had its powertrain removed. Once it was manually pulled into the luxury resort, artists and bakers went to work transforming it into the tastiest Jeep ever created.
Workers started by covering the hood, body and windshield frame with gingerbread tiles. The pastry team then filled the gaps with icing and installed gumdrops on each tile. Of course, their work was far from done as they also wrapped the roll bars, decorated the seats and covered the wheels to make them look like peppermint candies.
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The Jeep was then loaded up with presents while the surrounding display was given a desert theme thanks to candied cactuses and sand. In the end, the hotel says the project took 250 hours, over 500 lbs (227 kg) of candy and 1,000 gingerbread tiles to create. That’s a lot, but the resulting display – known as “Off-Roading in the enchanted Sonoran desert” – is pretty impressive.
The Wrangler YJ was launched in 1986 as a more comfortable replacement to the CJ-7. As a result, the model had a lot in common with the Cherokee (XJ).
While this particular Jeep doesn’t have an engine, the YJ was originally available with two AMC engines: a 2.5-liter four-cylinder and a 4.2-liter inline-six. Jeep’s renowned 4.0-liter engine arrived a few years later and the company sold more than 630,000 YJs over the course of its production run.
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