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The melancholy ad sees Gary continuing a tradition they shared, building a gingerbread house as his way to remember her.

Other new menu items include Starbuck’s Gingerbread Cream Cold Foam, a blend of gingerbread flavors with vanilla sweet cream; Turkey Sage Danish, a savory pastry filled with turkey sausage and bechamel sauce; Dark Toffee Bundt, a personal-sized, toffee-flavored Bundt cake; Penguin Cookie, a shortbread cookie iced with a penguin design; and Snowman Cake Pop, a vanilla-flavored cake mixed with buttercream and dipped in a white chocolate icing.

But where Spirit Halloween offers up just the bare bones for a haunted holiday, the company’s Christmas stores will come equipped with a “life-sized gingerbread village” and the chance to take a photo with Santa.

Her describing it a combination of pumpkin pie and gingerbread also made it sound stupendous.

She was named an assistant pastry chef in 2002 and became the executive pastry chef in November 2014 — just in time to sweat over the details of that year’s gingerbread White House for the holidays.