THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE
Salt Lake City, USA (2009)
Award-winning Gingerbread house at the
"1st Grand America-Hotel gingerbread house-contest"
Working 10 days, 12 hours a day, Gerhard created a true masterpiece out of gingerbread. A multi-tiered Victorian styled miniature house. And all the hard work got rewarded afterward, winning the ‘1st Grand Hotel Gingerbread House Competition’ in Salt Lake City! He also received $ 1400.- donated by ‘Galileo Financial Technologies’ which was transferred to the Diabetes Research Foundation afterward. Many thanks for the great donation!
Ingredients:
120 working hours in 10 days
15 kg of gingerbread
18 kg of icing sugar
1500 gingerbread shingles in various colour shades, fixed piece per piece
6000 mini-marshmallows
1 teaspoon of real gold
30 window frames made of sugar
15 poured sugar windows, hand-decorated window ornaments and, and....