STORY AND PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK

Your votes are in, and three creative gingerbread builders have won monetary donations for the nonprofits of their choice.

The winners of Sun Valley Resort’s annual Gingerbread House Contest are:

1st—Gnome Sweet Gnome, which has won a $3,000 donation from Sun Valley Company for the Wood River Land Trust.

2nd—Our Wild Backyard, which has won a $2,000 donation for The Sawtooth Society.

3rd—A Very Happy Unbirthday: Alice in Wonderland, which has won a $1,000 donation for The Hunger Coalition.

The Gnome Sweet Gnome featured a gingerbread cabin with shredded wheat roof and yellow Chiclets lighting the windows. It was surrounded by sugar cookie trees, toadstools and a pathway made of almond slivers. Its beneficiary preserves wildlife habitat in the Wood River Valley and provides river and flood plain restoration.

Our Wild Backyard featured a large gingerbread sockeye with a green icing face sitting in a lake made of melted hard candy. Gingerbread mountains capped with white icing, a gingerbread tree and a gingerbread cabin with a roof made of Chex completed the scene.

The Sawtooth Society advocates for the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, provides paid and volunteer trail maintenance and offers wildfire information.

A Very Happy Unbirthday created by the Gumdrop Gals, featured a gingerbread house tilting on the roof of another gingerbread house. The houses were decorated with Sour Punch sticks and gumdrops, while jelly beans provided a walkway and suckers, street lamps.