Orange County Register

A gingerbread zombie festers quietly in his gingerbread coffin in the haunted mansion as a gingerbread zombie dirge band leads the funeral procession.

As riders pass this display in the Haunted Mansion attraction in Disneyland, the mechanism that is rigged to the edible casket pops the lid open and the gingerbread zombie inside rises from the dead.

Check out my video interview with executive pastry chef Jean-Marc Viallet. He’s been cooking up tasty finery for the traditional Haunted Mansion haunted gingerbread house for almost a decade now.

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