Jannelle DeWenter recently ran a class that challenged her Foods and Nutrition students to a gingerbread house-making competition. Anyone who would like to vote for the best gingerbread house can click on this link.
The project lasted five days, where the students learned how to make the dough, how to roll off the dough, and create their own templates. If they wanted to, there were some provided already, then they learned different techniques as well. They then had to learn how to work with sugar glue, which is a hot glue used to assemble their gingerbread house. Then they used piping, the real icing, to make it look appealing. DeWenter provided all the candy for the students.
DeWenter found that each class found the project to be challenging in different ways.
“It varied for different classes,” she said. “Some were [challenged] on the royal icing because they didn’t get the egg yolk out so it didn’t cook their gingerbread house. Some struggled with the hot sugar because they had to assemble their gingerbread house really quickly, but it would harden very fast and then be really hard to clean up after in the saute pan.”
The contest winner will be announced on Jan. 6.
