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

[N F C]

Certainly required by me

I'm doing my fresh grocery shop Wednesday so I'm hoping they still have a kit in

Apparently the other half is going to help!! I'm not sure if "help" is the right word

Wishing you lots of luck Kim! DH started by helping me...that lasted about 20 minutes. He did enjoy some of the candies. And the pretzels. The building part? Not so much

 

[Blooie]

I wish I'd thought of pretzels for the framing instead of trying to cut Triscuits into strips! <sigh> Not a whole lot upstairs, but from there on down - Disneyland!

 

[N F C]

I wish I'd thought of pretzels for the framing instead of trying to cut Triscuits into strips! <sigh> Not a whole lot upstairs, but from there on down - Disneyland!

Exactly what are you referring to here Blooie? Are we still talking about gingerbread?

 

[3goodeggs]

I am just hoping my husband doesn't infect my son with his processing day theme.
I will have to make them make their own.

 

[ronott1]

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)

You did a great job!

 

[Blooie]

<taking a bow> Thank ye kindly! Margaritas help.

 

[3goodeggs]

I was thinking red wine... Does that go with gingerbread or should it be a white?

 

[Blooie]

Well I would suppose that it depends on which stage of construction you're at - if you are putting the house together, white wine would do very nicely. Once you start doing the simple decorations, I think I'd switch to red. But when it's 1 am and those pesky details keep falling off, and you realize that although you are so close to finishing up, you still have to clean up the kitchen, that would be the time for a whatever comes with a screw-on cap. You're welcome!

 

[Alice28]

Blooie and 7littlegirls, great job on the houses! So fun seeing what others do!

 

[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