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with an oddly sweet aroma. The children followed

the wonderful scent – it grew stronger and more

delicious.

Mouths dripping with drool, Hansel and Gretel finally

reached it.

In front of their eyes and noses sat a house made

entirely out of the most delicious looking sweets.

The roof was coated with fluffy white icing; pink,

sticky syrup drizzled and dripped along the sides of

the dark chocolate exterior; a gum drop door frame

was sopping with sparkling icing sugar; a frothy milk

chocolate river flowed under a gingerbread bridge

that led to a gingerbread door; and a lollipop garden

sat in front of a large crystallized sugar window.

Hansel and Gretel stood stunned for a moment, and

then, without caution or hesitation, they ran to the