A gingerly crafted replica of Isola

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Michael Cummo

Delores Barza, pastry chef at Isola Restaurant, let her festive spirit — and talent — shine this holiday season with this gingerbread and candy replica of the restaurant’s Edgartown location. Ms. Barza took photos of the building, and scaled the gingerbread walls to size. The project took about 40 hours, a full work week, to complete. This grown-up gingerbread house was detailed down to the shingle, and guests to the bar area, where it is now on display, agreed that it looked good enough to eat.

Ms. Barza also creates gingerbread houses for private homes, as decorative centerpieces. “I have a passion for baking,” she told The Times. “It’s a way for me to express myself, and make other people smile.”