Taking the Kids: Building an awesome gingerbread creation

Eileen Ogintz, Tribune Content Agency on Dec 15, 2022

Now you will see them at resorts, museums and hotels across the country, as well as all varieties of kits to make the construction easy.

You’ll see them in San Francisco at the historic Fairmont and St. Francis hotels.

The Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina, hosting its 30th Annual National Gingerbread Competition (all entries will be on display throughout the holiday season (@omnigroveparkinn) and Instagram (@omnigrovepark), the first 12 days of December.

The grand prize winner, Ann Bailey, was competing for the 11th time and had won three times before. Coble Adams, won in the 9 to 12 age group with “Santa Yoda and His Baby Elves while Maisy Frahler won in the 5 to 8 age group category with “Christmas Morning Paper Dolls; The first-place teen (ages 13 to 17) was won by the Rhinehart Girls’ “Fairly Tea House.”

The Museum of the City of New York will display the winners of: The Great Borough Bake-Off — the first ever.

In Colorado, The Broadmoor’s annual gingerbread display has arrived and can be found parked in the resort’s main building mezzanine. This year’s display has wheels – a vintage car made of gingerbread and chocolate, paying homage to The Broadmoor's founder Spencer Penrose and his 1937 Flathead V-8 Cadillac Touring car, which was used to ferry guests on sightseeing excursions around Colorado Springs. In case you are wondering, the gingerbread car took two carpenters and 10 pastry chefs some 308 “elf hours” to create.

Said Craig. “The most important thing is to have fun.”

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