Ended 7th Annual New Years Day Hatch-a-long contest number 6 Gingerbread Contest

[ronott1]

Do you love making Crafty things? Is Frosting your favorite glue?

Then we have a contest for You!
First Prize: One year Golden Feather Membership
Second Prize: Six month Golden Feather Membership

Submission Deadline: December 31

• Anything poultry related (coops, houses, brooders, incubators, etc.)
• At least a portion of the entry has to be edible, but not all of it
• Ok to use a kit (not everyone bakes)
• Original work only
• All BYC rules apply
• All entries must be submitted as a reply to this thread
• Limit of 3 photos per entry
• Limit of 1 entry per member
  
  Post pictures in this thread. Pictures cannot be digitally altered(photoshopped) and need to be a good enough quality for us to see the project clearly.
  Winners will be picked by a panel of judges.

Good Luck!

 

[N F C]

Ok, here goes nothing!





Some of the things I used:
Mini Shredded Wheat = roof
Caramel Licorice = roof beams
Sno Caps candy = roof
Sour Green Apple candy = tree, bushes
Pretzels = gate, sign post, windows
Graham Crackers = nesting box
Peanut M&M = coop base
Gumdrops = coop base, sign & gate anchors
Coconut = mixed in icing for snow
Chick-O-Stick = for seed
Peanut Butter Kiss = path

I've never made one of these before but I'd do it again (DH is already asking me to make a BIG one for next year, lol). Learned a lot...like icicles are hard to make and no matter how careful you try to be when you touch some item, something is going to fall off. It took a lot of time, mostly because I've not worked with royal icing before.

 

[3goodeggs]

The box the graham crackers are iced to is cardboard and inedible, and the tooth pick piece that holds the chicken's heads to their bodies in inedible, otherwise it is all a go.
I had too much trouble with the netting so I made them all free range hens.

(My husband is the only predator they need to worry about anyway.
You'd think a man who won't eat jello would have gum drop issues, but that just isn't the case.)

I had 25 chickens to start my adventure with so we made 25 hens and one rooster, because we did add Reynard later.
This is not my coop it is a whimsy coop.
If we do this again next year, I will try for the hen's real homestead.


Okay... If I can figure this out... and please ignore the background...





Edit to add: The chicken droppings are snowcaps. There was no cross contamination.

 

[sunflour]

Here's our entry.

The Christmas Chicken's Coop

by Sunflour and Chef Buddy Cat





Christmas Eve Fowl Fun in the Predator Proof Run - electric fence in place.

Resting after wrapping presents, sled rides, building a snowman and decorating the house for Christmas.
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But….

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There's always time and energy for one more Snow Angel

Every thing is edible with the following exclusions: Miniature chicken wire, Skittles tree, red sled, miniature clothes pins, toothpick supports in Snow Angel Chick and Snowman, and hot glue used to repair gum paste limb fractures on the Snowman and Snow Angel.

Planning to add more details and pics with a member page.





4th pic is not part of the entry - but had to show Buddy doing the last inspection before he would allow me to submit..

 

[Blooie]

Boo-Yah!!! Nailed it!!!


Not an actual entry.....just for fun!

 

[lindalouly]

and there you have it.

 

[Alice28]

My five year old and I made a gingerbread house today (from a kit). Obviously not winning any prizes, but we had fun

The front

Roof

Roof

Proud little man!

Two second after the house was finished

. He had a lot of fun. It has been raining non stop this week, so this gave us a good indoor activitie.

I guess I should add, he pretended the little glob of frosting by the door was a duck nest (we have two ducks) with two blue and one purple duck egg. Like I said, this was just for fun.

 

[Blooie]

IT. IS. FINISHED.

Coop......
Coop building - Graham Crackers attached to cardboard with Royal Icing, covered with red Royal Icing
Brown window, door, and vent frames - Triscuits cut into strips
Inner window and door frame - Royal Icing
Window pane - Melted licorice gumdrops
Door knob - M&M
Door decoration - Candy snowflake off Katie's birthday cake (hey, I was desperate)
Exhaust fan above door - Royal Icing and a bit of Triscuit as a flap
Gable vent frame - Triscuit, inside Royal Icing
Pop door - Graham crackers attached and covered with Royal Icing
Decoration in front of door - White candy snowflake off Katie's birthday cake (sure glad nobody really likes those things)
Corner treatment - Sucker sticks topped with half a gumdrop
Eves on the sides - Red licorice twists
Side window frame - Royal Icing
Window pane - Melted licorice gumdrops
Eve between wall and roof - Red licorice twists
Roof - Graham crackers covered with Royal Icing and coconut
Path - Hershey's minatures, M&Ms
Tree - Gumdrop

Run...
Frame - bits of wire folded into arch attached to chicken wire with melted licorice gumdrops
Chicken wire - Netting off a bag of onions
Bottom of frame - Red licorice twists
Bushes behind run - Gumdrops
Door into run - Graham crackers
Chickens - Borrowed from Kendra's play farm

Frame around the "yard" - Red licorice twists
Snow - Fluffy frosting
Coconut sprinkled over all.

Now if I did this right (I'm on my iPad), parts listed in blue are the non-edible parts. (Actually, I wouldn't eat any of it, but that's because I know how many bits and pieces fell on the floor first)

 

[tjo804]

OK here it is.





The Chickens are made of Gingerbread and covered in dyed coconut.
The deep litter in the coop is colored coconut
The sand and mud in the run is coco pebbles and Oatmeal.
The food bowls are Peanut-butter cups with Icing and sunflower seeds.
The wreath is a frosted cookie with red hots.
Stepping stones are York Peppermint Patties
The roost in the coop with the White Silkie is a sugar wafer and the one in the run is a white kitkat.
The Bench Coop and chickens are all Gingerbread.
For the roof I used Cinnamon toast crunch (which is really good with the Gingerbread and Icing!)
For Eggs I used Peanuts
all is edible except the fence lights and Christmas Princess.
There are M&M all over and a painted door on the back of the coop.
At the end we made it snow! with powdered sugar. You can kind of see it coming down in the pic (That is why I cant get The angles I want now)

Beware!
I do not like brick cookies soooo.....
I under baked the gingerbread and did not get it laid completely straight on the cookie sheet made for lots of trouble and Breakage of pieces so the Coop is now a lean too about half the size I planned

Thanks for suggesting this.
I had a blast and think I must try another!
or 2 or 3

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Okie Dokie,
Here's my little effort. It was fun! A big applause to my Hubby, he helped with the whole thing and even took the photo!
Presenting the "Blue Hen Hut"


Consists of graham crackers and powdered sugar "glue" (all edible), 1 tiny blue glass nesting hen, 1 real barred rock egg (layed today & delicious) and pine needles (not really edible)