To switch holidays for a minute (but stay on the subject of the gingerbread), there's a Finnish Easter bread called something very much like Paasiaisleipa (only with several umlauts) that's traditionally baked in a small milk pail. I wonder if that would work for your gingerbread? And where would you find one? Maybe in Solvang (though that's nominally Danish...).

Cheers,
Claire