This year Kirks work decided to have a gingerbread house contest. So far only one person has actually made a HOUSE. For those of you who don't know what Kirk does for a profession, he's an engineer. Specifically, one that specializes in structures. Now think about a whole bunch of engineers with the task of building gingerbread houses. Did I really expect them to actually just build houses? Kirks boss even made a scene from the game Angry Birds. It's amazing. Kirk had the idea that he wanted to make the Twin Towers in memory. He had the idea, but didn't really know how he was going to go about it. We ended up building the graham crackers up three high, and letting the royal icing set for a couple days so it would be nice and hard. When it was time for the decorating, that was up to me. I colored the rest of our icing a nice grey color, and colored some gum paste yellow for the windows. Kirk had the task of decorating, because I was in bed with a bad backache. I think he did a fabulous job!
Again with the dang sideways pictures!
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| The "construction phase" |
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| Frosting and adding windows |
that is awesome! Good job Kirky! (i'm going to start calling him Kirky now....be warned! lol)
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