One of the reasons as to why I did not post in a very long time is due to a little gingerbread house project that took ALL OF MY FREE TIME. This was a Magnolia project that I was asked to work on, which we all stupidly agreed to do during the busiest time of the year for the bakery. Even though it was awful getting through it, the sense of accomplishment and pride that came from doing it might have been worth the while. It was to benefit the group City Harvest, and was on display along with other bakery's submissions at the Le Parker Meridian Hotel in midtown New York (also home of the delicious Burger Joint restaurant).
The challenge was to create a giant structure- in this case Grand Central Terminal- out of essentially a large cookie that wants to crack. Each wall was baked a couple of times, and the center of the building is a giant rice krispy treat to provide structure. Royal icing is holding it all together. The structure of the roof is made out of graham crackers, with Nilla wafers and candy on top. The facade of the building is covered in royal icing and then fondant tiles (all meticulously cut by me) and white chocolate plastique detail. We threw in some candy canes, gum paste wreathes (me!) and cars (me!), oreo cookie crumb drive, and voila, a Grand Central Terminal. I worked with a great team.
The opening event was attended by Duff Goldman from Charm City Cakes, who seems like an alright guy, and received a lot of media attention, which is great for City Harvest, which it all benefited.
bravo!
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