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

[Alice28]

Here's some inspiration:

This is one of this years winners in the Asheville, NC - Grove Park Inn's Gingerbread Contest. That's where I caught the Gingerbread Bug

"Dicken's Chickens" by Suzanne from Ohio


Their Rules: Except for the base, entries must be constructed of edible materials. The main structure should be at least 75% gingerbread, some of which should be exposed. Edible materials are not limited to candies and icings.

If you want to see some of the others, here's a link: http://www.romanticasheville.com/gingerbread.htm

Oh my gosh, this picture is driving me crazy! If everything but the base has to be edible, what is the chicken wire made from

? I can't figure it out.... It's pretty amazing! I will have to look at the site!

 

[sunflour]

All right, here is my "official" entry. Insipration came from a blown out egg I was going to use for an ornament, a sister who said " hey, go get an ice cream cone", and a niece who said " we should make Santa stuck in a chimney" so here it goes:

Very well done, so creative and such an original idea. I love it.

Santa from an egg and a coop by the house - wish I had thought of that one

It looks like a chicken in the coop as well.

 

[N F C]

All right, here is my "official" entry. Insipration came from a blown out egg I was going to use for an ornament, a sister who said " hey, go get an ice cream cone", and a niece who said " we should make Santa stuck in a chimney" so here it goes:

What a fun idea! I like how you used an egg

 

[3goodeggs]

I love the coop on the side of the house too! it is so cute.

This was such a great idea, I am having fun keeping up with this contest thread.


I have to decide if I will try gingerbread or graham crackers.
Time will be my deciding factor.

 

[sunflour]

Waiting for more entries

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Here's some recipes and hope some motivation , a member page article me and Buddy posted today:

Don't be Chicken, Even a Cat Can Bake a Gingerbread House

 

[N F C]

I love the coop on the side of the house too! it is so cute.

This was such a great idea, I am having fun keeping up with this contest thread.


I have to decide if I will try gingerbread or graham crackers.
Time will be my deciding factor.

tick tick tick tick

 

[Blooie]

Did you ever try to cut Triskets into little strips? <sigh>

 

[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)

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

IT. IS. FINISHED.

I'm so glad you did not give up on it Blooie, I think it's fantastic
The addition of a run is great!!

 

[Blooie]

Thank you kindly. Now, I think I'm off to bed. It's 1:55 am and I have to be up at 6:30 before Kendra gets here for the day.