As for construction, work as if you re creating a gingerbread house, but swap out the ingredients.
Woodard recommends using cream cheese as the glue to hold your chalet together. For the walls, she used a crunchy crisp bread and ended up stacking several of them inside the chalet to create stability.
Her chalet was Texas and Houston themed, so she had a lush green lawn of broccoli, a front walkway paved with pecans and created a queso swimming pool in the backyard.
Other details include crushed up red and green chips to make Christmas lights and sprigs of rosemary used as trees and a wreath on the front door.