Christmas ornament honors gingerbread White House tradition

This year's White House Christmas ornament gives a nod to former first lady Patricia Nixon

White House Christmas Ornament

in the State Dining Room for the holidays. That was long before the talented White House pastry chefs began making hundred-pound replicas of the executive mansion.“Initially these were A-frame houses, but now they are actual White Houses, gingerbread houses built in the shape of the White House," Stewart McLaurin, president of the association, told The Associated Press in an interview. The privately funded association began selling the popular annual White House Christmas ornament in 1981.

“Chef Raffert’s Gingerbread Houses were a precious A-framed house that in later years began to add some special touches to reflect the current first family,” such as jelly beans, representing President Ronald Reagan's favorite candy, or replicas of the family's pets, wrote Jennifer Pickens, author of a book about Christmas at the White House.

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