A master baker has created a jaw-dropping nativity scene using a staggering 100kg of marzipan and icing, 240 eggs and four litres of whiskey.
Mother-of-two Lynn Nolan worked miracles with marzipan to create the replica Bethlehem standing at six-foot tall and three-foot wide.
The 61-year-old spent six months and £850 worth of ingredients baking the fruitcake using 50 kg of icing, 50 kg of marzipan.
The Christmas model depicts Bethlehem’s main street complete with market stalls featuring traders selling blankets, spices, breads and meats.
Lynn Nolan spent six months and £850 worth of ingredients baking this fruitcake using 50 kg of icing, 50 kg of marzipan
Figurines in the Nativity scene behind the main street showing baby Jesus and the Three Kings in a stable are just some of the more than twenty hand-crafted 2-inch characters
Ms Nolan, 61, worked miracles with marzipan to create the replica Bethlehem standing at six-foot tall and three-foot wide
For the showstopping masterpiece, Lynn used some 240 eggs and a staggering four litres of whiskey
Youlgreave Church of England Primary School is hoping to raise cash towards a £60,000 target when the cakes are auctioned
Figurines in the Nativity scene behind the main street showing baby Jesus and the Three Kings in a stable are just some of the more than twenty hand-crafted 2-inch characters.
Its buildings are lit with LED lights disguised as candles which Lynn hand-wired.
Miracle-worker Ms Nolan set about the project to help raise the £60,000 needed to replace the playground at Youlgrave CE Primary School, Derbyshire.
It is currently on display in the village shop until December 20 – when it will be auctioned off into separate pieces.
Ms Nolan, from Youlgrave, raised £11,000 towards the cost of restoring a new church roof by building a replica of her home village – featuring 16 buildings.
She said: ‘When I finished the village model last year I said ‘never again’.
‘But people kept asking me this year if I was going to do another one so I said ‘oh alright then’.
‘I was thinking about doing an Austrian Christmas market but then I thought the Nativity would be a great idea.
‘When you actually see the size of it you think ‘oh my God’ – god knows what they’ll have me baking this time next year.’
Lynn said: ‘I was thinking about doing an Austrian Christmas market but then I thought the Nativity would be a great idea. “When you actually see the size of it you think ‘oh my God’ – god knows what they’ll have me baking this time next year’
Building in the scenes are lit with LED lights disguised as candles which Lynn patiently hand-wired
The Christmas model depicts Bethlehem’s main street complete with market stalls featuring traders selling blankets, spices, breads and meats
Lynn previously raised £11,000 towards the cost of restoring a new church roof by building a replica of her home village – featuring 16 buildings – so made this her next project
Everything in the scene – including the buildings and camel – are edible because they have been soaked in whisky, which preserves them
Ms Nolan spent hundreds of hours creating the intricately-detailed piece, with proceeds going to a great cause