Queuing for tickets can be very boring but a giant gingerbread house on London’s South Bank is providing a fairytale ending to make up for it.

An ogre-sized edible ticket office is today selling the first tickets to the Shrek’s Adventure! London attraction opening this July.

The pop-up opened early this morning and will stay as long as the stocks of gingerbread and sweets last, with passers-by able to tuck into pieces of the house.

This Is Local London:

Alex Cameron eats a slice of the house on his way to work

If you’ve missed out on Tatooed Bakers’ giant gingerbread house today, see the recipe below and maybe you can make your own.

Shrek’s Adventure! London will be a new attraction from Merlin Entertainments in collaboration with DreamWorks, located at County Hall near the London Eye.

It will feature a new Shrek adventure, with a cast of fairytale characters, themed shows and sets and a 4D bus ride.

www.shreksadventure.com

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Lauren Mitcham takes a bite out of the edible gingerbread house

How to make a giant gingerbread house:

525kg of flour

50 litres of golden syrup

105kg of sugar

134kg butter

2,136 teaspoons of ginger

100kg icing

Decoration:

700 gingerbread tiles – roof and walls

60 giant gobstoppers

50 giant jelly babies

40 whirlygig sugar pinwheels

35 giant white and milk chocolate jazzies

27 giant jelly beans

15 giant meringue boulders

12 giant candy canes

5 giant chocolate hearts