After church today we visited this Gingerbread Village on display at the Marriott hotel. The display is 12' by 16' and very impressive. They used 170 lbs of chocolate and 400 lbs of gingerbread. Something like that...don't quote me. Decorating gingerbread houses is a well loved family tradition in our house every December, so of course we enjoyed seeing what materials were used and how they used them. We especially liked the trail mix pathways and cookie dough chunks for boulders.
Daphne likes the idea of crushed peppermints on the roof. She also thinks that this year we need sticks of gum for decorating.
I thought the chunks of ice floating in a river of blue water was clever. Makes you cold just looking at it. Brrr.
Okay, Jared was a little envious at first as he studied this igloo. Remember, he has experience in igloo building. After a couple minutes he had decided that they must have used a bowl up side down for structure and that the entrance was not connected. Now, now. So I guess it is getting close to digging out our gingerbread recipe to venture into our own session of building and decorating. Nothing like being up to our elbows in icing. Maybe we will drive around and look at Christmas lights first.
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Didn't you love the smell, too? I know Rachel and I were in awe at it all. What was fun for Rachel to see was the candy skills she watches on the food channel in real life. So get your pans out to make your gingerbread designs. :)
You know, our kids were thinking about how the candy was made too. We love watching the food channels. I didn't notice if it smelled good or not. Us tall people were possibly further away from the aroma of gingerbread!
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