This Bakery Has A Stunning Gingerbread Pinecone That Looks Like The Real Thing

The winter holiday season features many opportunities for creativity when it comes to baking something sweet. You can create the most extravagant gingerbread house, filled with jelly bean floors and vanilla frosted windows, or you can take a familiar symbol of the season and create something simple and elegant.

That’s exactly what master baker Dominique Ansel did by creating his Gingerbread Pinecone.

Tis the season for one of our favorites: our Gingerbread Pinecone!🎄 It’s finished with more than 60 or 70 tiny chocolate petals, hand-placed so it resembles a real pinecone, filled with speculoos ganache, ginger mousse and a spiced cake. It actually started off as a rectangular, layered cake, but Chef Dominique really pushed to think out of the box and he came up with this beautiful presentation. It always reminds us of what we can create when we push ourselves just a little harder. Now it’s something we’re always so proud of whenever I make it! 

A photo posted by Dominique Ansel Bakery Japan (@dabjapan) on Dec 5, 2016 at 9:19pm PST

Ansel’s Tokyo, Japan location features a multi-layered gingerbread pine cone that features more than 60 miniature chocolate petals. The dessert cone is filled with Speculoos ganache, ginger mousse, and a spiced cake.

The petals on the cone are meticulously hand-placed so they look as much like the real thing as possible.

Expect to find the pine cones at Dominique Ansel Bakery Japan through the month of December.