Gingerbread Showstopper!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year and at the Upper Snoddlington Gingerbread House Competition the tension is heating up! But when the time comes to award prizes for the finished creations, the judges cannot believe their eyes. Something leads them to believe that one of the contestants might have had a little more help than the others, but what could it possibly be?

What could the judge have seen that’s caused the competition to crumble? That is the image you need to puzzle.