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One House Bakery Unveils 7-Foot, 300-Pound Labubu Bread Sculpture in Benicia

The annual scarecrow entry reflects a mother‑daughter tradition built with specialized dead‑dough techniques.

One House Bakery, at 918 First St. in Benicia, Calif., created a giant Labubu nicknamed LeVanVan for the Benicia’s Annual Scarecrow Contest.  
One House Bakery, at 918 First St. in Benicia, Calif., created a giant Labubu nicknamed LeVanVan for the Benicia’s Annual Scarecrow Contest.  
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File: One House Bakery, at 918 First St. in Benicia, Calif., created a giant Labubu nicknamed LeVanVan for the Benicia’s Annual Scarecrow Contest.   

Overview

  • LeVanVan was installed early Thursday after weeks of construction and will remain on display through Halloween outside the bakery.
  • Catherine and Hannalee Pervan built it on a wood, chicken‑wire and tinfoil frame, using no‑yeast dead dough for structure and enriched sourdough mixtures for fur texture.
  • The build required roughly a couple hundred hours of baking, cutting and gluing individual pieces sized to fit household ovens.
  • The sculpture is One House Bakery’s entry in Benicia’s Main Street Scarecrow Contest and has drawn steady crowds, including schoolchildren stopping for photos.
  • The duo has produced annual bread sculptures for eight years, including a 2022 Han Solo piece shared by Mark Hamill and last year’s 7‑foot Groot pun.