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Ginger Village (Merry Christmas)

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Ginger Village (Merry Christmas)
Posted by Awesome! on Sunday, December 20, 2009 8:18 PM

I am Executive Chef for a major hotel but this year it was my first Ginger Village. It took us 200 hours to complete the 6 x 10 project. I add 50 # of Royal Icing, 80# of Assorted Candies, and made 200 trees. Please, enjoy the photos and Happy Holiday's Chef

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Posted by Modelcar on Sunday, December 20, 2009 8:25 PM

Yes, that really is awesome.....!!!  Beautiful.  Awesome photos too.

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Posted by CShaveRR on Sunday, December 20, 2009 8:30 PM
How do you bring yourself to destroy and devour such a masterpiece? I have trouble cutting into a cake with lettering on it!

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Sunday, December 20, 2009 8:54 PM

    Very cool!  What's the occasion?

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Sunday, December 20, 2009 9:08 PM

ONCE!! I made a gingerbread ski resort with my wife for a friend who owned said resort---we could not bear to see it eaten up----

That is one wondeful looking piece of work there!!!BowBow

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Posted by edblysard on Sunday, December 20, 2009 9:59 PM

My wife would make you buy a really big freezer and make you keep it...

Outstanding work.

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Posted by tbdanny on Sunday, December 20, 2009 10:08 PM

Lovely work - looks good enough to eat! Big Smile

Just curious, what scale is the train?

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Posted by Awesome! on Sunday, December 20, 2009 11:03 PM

Murphy Siding

    Very cool!  What's the occasion?

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Posted by Awesome! on Sunday, December 20, 2009 11:04 PM

tbdanny

Lovely work - looks good enough to eat! Big Smile

Just curious, what scale is the train?

The scale is HOChef

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Posted by Awesome! on Sunday, December 20, 2009 11:08 PM

CShaveRR
How do you bring yourself to destroy and devour such a masterpiece? I have trouble cutting into a cake with lettering on it!

 

It hard to take it down on December 31st. I started to do it in October and the opening day was Dec. 1st. I be having alot of people putting their finger on the Royal Icing and tasting. When I come the next day I see alot of finger holes. Tomorow, I be filling the holes and putting more candies. I did made a few changes to the Royal Icing recipe. I added Lemon Juice and Black Pepper. Blindfold

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Posted by CShaveRR on Monday, December 21, 2009 9:27 AM
Wait a minute--that's Texas! They're going to love that pepper stuff!

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Monday, December 21, 2009 9:40 AM

Royal icing with Lemon AND pepper? In Texas?! Mischief

Sheeesh--that's just an added invitation!! LOL!!Laugh

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Posted by samfp1943 on Monday, December 21, 2009 10:16 AM

blownout cylinder

Royal icing with Lemon AND pepper? In Texas?! Mischief

Sheeesh--that's just an added invitation!! LOL!!Laugh

Had you used a little Tabasco, and some japalino peppers for effect,Cowboy      You'd have truly created a Texas 5 course meal!   Anyway, the SP Daylight was a really nice touch! Hope no one trys to take a bite out of it!Evil

Beautifuf job, Awsome!  You can mail some of the left overs to Kansas.Smile,Wink, & Grin

 

 


 

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Posted by carnej1 on Monday, December 21, 2009 11:10 AM

Are those F units edible?

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Posted by Awesome! on Monday, December 21, 2009 5:30 PM

carnej1

Are those F units edible?

No, I wish!!!Headphones

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Posted by Awesome! on Monday, December 21, 2009 5:32 PM

The Ginger buildings were the hotel on the left side then, you have Tower University of Texas and the Capitol building of Austin, TX.

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Posted by tbdanny on Monday, December 21, 2009 8:23 PM

Awesome!

carnej1

Are those F units edible?

No, I wish!!!Headphones

All you'd need then would be edible tracks...run them straight into your mouth. Dinner

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Posted by Awesome! on Friday, December 25, 2009 10:27 PM

tbdanny

Awesome!

carnej1

Are those F units edible?

No, I wish!!!Headphones

All you'd need then would be edible tracks...run them straight into your mouth. Dinner

Priceless!Bow

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