Behind-the-scenes: The making of the Gingerbread House at the Fairmont Hotel

SAN FRANCISCO (Claudine Wong/KTVU) - Take a behind-the-scenes tour to see how the famous Gingerbread House is made each year at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.

Here's what it took to create by the numbers:

• It’s 25 feet high
• It’s 35 feet wide
• Took 6 months to plan and build
• 10,000 bricks of gingerbread 
• 3,000 pounds of royal icing
• 1,600 pieces of candy
• 1,000 hours of work
• It began nine years ago