BEDFORD, Pennsylvania—A highly anticipated Christmas display in Pennsylvania that is both delicious and whimsical is when the Omni Bedford Springs Hotel in Bedford County transforms one of its main entrances into a culinary delight whose aroma hits your sensory palate long before you walk through the nearly 200-year-old front door.

What began as a small decorative house has become a full-scale work of culinary art under executive pastry chef Harshal Naik. Known for his appearance on Food Network’s “Holiday Baking Championship,” he has taken it to the next level over the past five years. Guests and day visitors feel immersed in every display, from sprawling villages to candy cane streets to last year’s functioning gingerbread carousel.

Naik is standing outside of his masterpiece—a 4-foot-wide, 9-foot-deep, 11-foot-tall gingerbread home—trying to get the coconut snow from clogging the train tracks of the Polar Express train that is chugging along inside the window of the life-size gingerbread home.

“Everything is edible. Well, almost,” he says with a smile.

The lobby........

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