Some of you may remember my gingerbread house from last year - the yellow Victorian manor with a dark chocolate door - YUM!!
This year the gingerbread project has grown out of control. But wait, I must go back to start this story properly. For the last two years around Christmas time I have noticed that all the stores in downtown Logan have a gingerbread house in the window. I figured out it is the "parade of Gingerbread houses" and is an actual contest here in Cache Valley. I thought to myself, "gee, that would be fun..." So last year I tackled a big gingerbread project and came up with the yellow thing. I was very proud of it, but I hadn't made it early enough to get it in the contest. My friend and fellow gingerbread enthusiast, Andrea, came up with a fantastical idea. We would find out all the info about the parade, and do a team project for this year. So, one week ago I made a string of phone calls to downtown merchants trying to find someone in the know. After being directed back and forth several times I finally connected with the head of the project and officially entered Andrea and I in the parade of gingerbread houses.
Andrea's husband is a computer graphics expert, so he designed the castle to scale for us and broke it down into template pieces. I then took the draft and created proportional scaled pieces of card stock paper to use as cut outs. Andrea and I have divided the labor as follows: She is building the outside court wall and bridge. I am building the inside structure which will sit on a false floor just one inch below the top of the outside walls.
This year the gingerbread project has grown out of control. But wait, I must go back to start this story properly. For the last two years around Christmas time I have noticed that all the stores in downtown Logan have a gingerbread house in the window. I figured out it is the "parade of Gingerbread houses" and is an actual contest here in Cache Valley. I thought to myself, "gee, that would be fun..." So last year I tackled a big gingerbread project and came up with the yellow thing. I was very proud of it, but I hadn't made it early enough to get it in the contest. My friend and fellow gingerbread enthusiast, Andrea, came up with a fantastical idea. We would find out all the info about the parade, and do a team project for this year. So, one week ago I made a string of phone calls to downtown merchants trying to find someone in the know. After being directed back and forth several times I finally connected with the head of the project and officially entered Andrea and I in the parade of gingerbread houses.
So here's where it gets sketchy. Andrea has been cooking up an idea for over a year now--Cinderella's castle. Yeah. Square walls are for sissies.
Andrea's husband is a computer graphics expert, so he designed the castle to scale for us and broke it down into template pieces. I then took the draft and created proportional scaled pieces of card stock paper to use as cut outs. Andrea and I have divided the labor as follows: She is building the outside court wall and bridge. I am building the inside structure which will sit on a false floor just one inch below the top of the outside walls.
Wednesday: I baked most of my pieces. I don't quite know how to work out the roof yet, so I'm going to build the walls and turrets first and then do the roof.
Thursday: Frosting day! everything got coated with royal icing, and then bricks were traced with a spatula blade. Once the frosting was dry I dusted Wilton pearl dust on the pink pieces. The blue pieces and dark pink areas are pearl dust mixed with a little lemon juice to make a liquid paint.
7 comments:
Wow, that's quite the project. It looks awesome.
Wow!! I can't wait to see the finished project - and I won't be showing my girls your blog for a while....... don't want the getting any ideas about me doing such a project! :) Good luck!
i got pumkin egg nog, regular eggnog for 4 gretat big pints at $5 dlloars...can't possibly drink it all even counting in eggnog day, what to do???????
It looks like it is turning out really great. You have quite the nack. My attemps at ginger bread houses never turn out very good.
Git-r-done Laura! I want to eat it all. I ate your house last year, remember?
Speaking of eggnog, that Cream O Weber pumpkin and spice eggnog is something, I drank the whole thing at work this morning, well, it took me all morning until noon to drink it. Make sure you get the pumpkin and spice kind on eggnog day, it is like drinking liquid pumpkin pie!
i agee, with dad that eggnog is going faster than i first thought
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