It took 80 eggs, 20kg of butter and sugar, more than 11 stone of icing and some painstaking attention to detail to create a replica of Leeds Castle - in gingerbread.

Now two models have been unveiled - with one showing the outside and another the intricate details inside. The sugary castle is 2.5m long, is to scale and has been created by the hand-iced biscuit company Biscuiteers after 550 hours of careful work.

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The magical dolls house features eight 1930s and Tudor period rooms complete with furniture, paintings and decor, and has been made entirely from hand-iced gingerbread.

Visitors will be able to see the Christmas masterpiece in the exhibition centre, in the stable courtyard.

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The exhibition will also feature the story of how the intricate biscuit decorations were made through 3D models and a film of the gingerbread castle in production, plus step by step imagery taken throughout the process.

Eighty eggs, 10kg (1 stone 8lbs) of butter, 10kg (1 stone 8lbs) of sugar and 72kg (11 stone 4lbs) of icing were used to make the Leeds Castle gingerbread castle and dolls house.

Each model weighs in at around 63.5kgs - that’s almost 10 stone!!

In total the gingerbread castle and dolls house took 550 hours to make.

But if even that's not enough gingerbread, visitors to Leeds Castle can feast on more.

Christmas trees will be decorated around the castle, each with gingerbread decorations to match the history of the room.

The hand-made gingerbread decorations will include Royal symbols such as the pomegranate for Katherine of Aragon in the Queen’s Gallery and the Tudor Rose symbols in the Henry VIII Banqueting Hall.

Then the theme continues, with a gingerbread nativity scene in the entrance hall and Henry VIII and his wives in the Inner Hall.

More than 240 eggs, 30kg (4 stone 10lbs) of butter and sugar and 216kg (34.5 stone) of icing were used to create the gingerbread biscuits and structures around the castle.

The display will remain on show until December 23.