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JEFF PIORKOWSKI/SUN NEWS The colorful final product includes a house, gazebo, boardwalk, tree and other colorful delights. This local creation is one of 13 gingerbread houses on display at Tower City. LYNDHURST Homes are in foreclosure all around us these days but, in the case of a gingerbread house, foreclosure is best done with the mouth.

It takes special chefs to make a gingerbread house designed with enough style to go on display and tantalize, and one local chef has what it takes to do just that.

Making one of 13 of the tasty abodes for a display to benefit the not-for-profit organization Welcome House Inc. is “flour arranger” Bennett Davis, co-owner of Appetite Deli, Bakery & Catering, 5143 Mayfield Road.

The house was made for the second annual Gingerbread Lane held at Tower City in downtown Cleveland and Davis has taken part in both.

“It’s about a three-day project,” said Davis, of Richmond Heights, of the intricate gingerbread house he created and baked for the display. “There’s a whole lot of baking going on.

“It allows me to have some fun and (his employees) to join in. The whole staff is on board for the project.”

The houses will be on display on the second floor, above the grand staircase at Tower City, through Christmas Day. Visitors can see the houses from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and from noon to 5 p.m. Sundays.

The display includes decorative lighting, moving parts and wonderful aromas.

This year’s theme is “Candyland.”

A year ago, Davis, 28, put together a gingerbread replica of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum for the exhibit’s Cleveland theme.

“We did it brick by brick, to scale,” he said. “This year was more of a whim. We used a lot more candy. We made a house, fixtures and a gazebo, and we kept the theme of a boardwalk (like the game ‘Candyland’) made of fondant.”

JEFF PIORKOWSKI/SUN NEWS Bennett Davis has, for the second straight year, contributed a piece of gingerbread art to the Welcome House Inc. Tower City display, on exhibit through December 25. Davis, like his brother and Appetite co-owner, William, is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. There, he specialized in baking and pastry and graduated in 2001. He has since lived and worked in Europe, Las Vegas and New York.

The brothers opened their business in Lyndhurst in 2004. Since that time, they have developed a loyal client base.

“We cater company parties, breakfasts, lunch and dinners, and showers, too,” said William Davis, 30, of Mayfield Heights. “Business has been pretty steady.”

Welcome House Inc. is committed to creating and maintaining residential community based programs for the care of people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

It was founded in 1981 and has a staff of 200 caregivers who provide services to more than 120 people living in group homes or supported living sites in Cuyahoga and Lorain counties, as well as to others living in family homes.

“We are very pleased to bring back holiday traditions for Cleveland,” said Tony Thomas, executive director of Welcome House, in a release.

“And while visitors to Tower City enjoy the sights, sounds and aroma of the Gingerbread Lane houses, we hope they’ll be reminded of the warm and welcoming atmosphere maintained in the family-style group homes and in-home assistance programs we operate to help our clients with IDD to lead rich and rewarding lives.”

Contact Piorkowski at (216) 986-5862. This house at 1156 West Miner Road in Mayfield Heights has become Taggs Candy Cane Lane for the holidays once again. The display has over 7,000 red and white lights, lighted peppermints and candy canes, 25 foot driveway arches and a 16-foot Christmas light tree that are all computer-controlled and synchronized to Christmas music broadcast over an FM transmitter that you can hear by tuning your radio to FM 107.1. Robert Tagg, who submitted this photo, said his family has been putting this display up for a couple years and gets a lot of people driving by to admire it. “It takes a long time to program the show and put up these lights but in the end it is worth it to see the smiling faces as people drive by to check us out,” he said. We also have a great number of neighbors that seem to have caught the light bug. I would say West Miner has to be the most decorated street in Mayfield.” The music/light show starts at 5 p.m. and runs about 15 minutes, then all the lights go static for another 15 minutes. The cycle repeats itself through 10:30 p.m. on weekdays and 11:30 p.m. on weekends. See more pictures and videos of the lights with music at Dogs and cats will enjoy tasty holiday snacks courtesy of Mayfield schools animal-loving students

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