A new look for Bo Obama: Tiny, chocolate-covered and made from marzipan

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If you thought presidential dog walker was an oddly specific job title, how about presidential dog replica pastry chef?

OK, so executive pastry chef Bill Yosses’ job consists of a little more than just crafting miniature Portuguese water dogs out of marzipan, complete with dollops of chocolate to mimic their signature curly, shed-free coats. If you want to get technical, Yosses’ duties also include replicating First Lady Michelle Obama’s famous vegetable garden out of marzipan and covering a 56-inch-by-29-inch gingerbread White House with white chocolate. (How else would you make a gingerbread White House white?)

The world’s most famous gingerbread house (well, probably) was shown off for the first time last week. It’ll be the showpiece for some 28 holiday-themed parties and open houses to be held by the First Family this month. Reportedly, the 390-pound gingerbread-and-white-chocolate affair took Yosses and his staff six weeks to prepare.

No word on whether marzipan Bo will be consumed after the holiday season comes to a close, but we do know that the original Bo certainly won’t be eating his chocolate replica (he’d get sick). See a photo of the whole gingerbread house after the jump!

-- Lindsay Barnett

(bottom) The White House gingerbread house sits in the State Dining Room on Dec. 2. Credit: Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune