Snowflake Adventures Gingerbread House
December 21, 2011
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Every year, our little community has their annual Snowflake Festival the first two weeks of December. One of their many activities and competitions is the Gingerbread House Competition. So – I thought perhaps this year I would enter.The kicker is, you have to follow the festival’s theme for the year. The 2011 theme was “Snowflake Adventures,” so I complied. But that meant somehow creating an “adventure” out of all edible things and incorporating a house…. hmmm. Ski lodge?
Eight boxed cakes, two double batches of marshmallow, two double recipes of royal icing and one batch of gingerbread dough later (along with other assorted edibles), you have a three-story Adirondack tobogganing resort complete with rope tow, bonfire and skating pond. Whew.
Random list of edibles used?? Shredded wheat, pretzels, guacamole tortilla chips, dried beans, dried pasta, fruit roll-ups, fruit-by-the-foot, graham cereal, chocolates, candy canes and melted hard candies.
I haven’t made a gingerbread house in a couple of years, so it was fun to create this. My first time in a competition as well. I did win first in my class and then took the championship. Two pretty ribbons to prove it. What did I win? A mention in the local paper and my house on display in the hospital lobby (I think they spelled my name wrong). Would I do it again? Yes!
