[Sca-cooks] 2013 Gingerbread

[Johnna Holloway]

More gingerbread houses and villages and ships…

http://www.thedailymeal.com/12-outrageous-gingerbread-displays/121213

JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in North Phoenix  is boasting that "In 2013 …. that it has created the Valley’s largest gingerbread display, featuring a 1,500-square-foot masterpiece of confectionary pleasure. There are 13 four-feet by six-feet gingerbread houses constructed from 4,000 pounds of gingerbread cookie dough, 3,240 gingerbread bricks used to frame and shingle the roofs of the gingerbread houses, 2,000 pounds of icing and 750 pounds of sugar. The resort’s award-winning pastry team spent two months crafting the life-size village."

http://ktar.com/22/1682862/Massive-gingerbread-village-on-display-at-Phoenix-resort

http://phoenix.about.com/od/holidayevents/ss/Gingerbread-Village.htm

http://www.khou.com/news/Life-size-gingerbread-village-debuts-at-JW-Marriott-in-Phoenix-234054291.html

Or

The S.S. Ginger Amelia, a gingerbread pirate ship, docks annually at The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island. The 17-foot ship made with 3,000 eggs and 1,200 pounds of sugar is a nod to privateer Louis Aury who held the island captive for three days in 1817. The ship is helmed by chocolate pirates.

http://hotels.about.com/od/uniqueandunusualhotels/ss/gingerbread_6.htm
or

Gingerbread House at The Fairmont San Francisco (San Francisco)

According to representatives of the hotel, tt took the culinary team at The Fairmont San Francisco 1,100 hours to scale, mix, bake, construct, and decorate its nearly 2-ton, life-size gingerbread house. Its 7,500 gingerbread bricks are melded together with 1,600 pounds of royal icing and decorated with 724 pounds of candy.

http://www.fairmont.com/san-francisco/promotions/holidays-at-the-fairmont-san-francisco/

Johnnae