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Fairmont San Francisco unveils largest-ever gingerbread house

By: Rob Nagle | 11/25/11 1:27 PM

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Measuring 23 feet high and nearly 22 feet wide, the Fairmont San Francisco's gingerbread house is the largest the hotel has ever built. Now that is one sweet suite.

Constructed of 7,500 gingerbread sticks, 1,200 pounds of chocolate icing and 650 pounds of candy, The Fairmont Hotel’s two-story gingerbread house will open to the public Saturday and it dwarfs last year’s holiday creation.

On Friday, executive chef jW Foster and executive pastry chef Stephen Sullivan put the finishing touches on the giant gingerbread house and allowed the media a sneak peek at the delicious den of a dentist’s nightmare.

Click on the picture for a gallery of the Fairmont San Francisco’s largest-ever gingerbread house.

Measuring 23 feet high and nearly 22 feet wide, the gingerbread house frames the entrance to the hotel’s Laurel Court Restaurant and Bar. The pastry shop spent more than 600 hours creating the house and the engineering department worked 160 hours building the framework, using recycled materials, according to the hotel.

Beginning Now. 26 through Jan. 1, children can enjoy The Nutcracker Holiday Tea in The Laurel Court Restaurant and Bar. Speaking of The Nutcracker, the Molinari Family Nutcracker Collection is showcased within the gingerbread house’s windows. The collection is on loan from the San Francisco Ballet.

The gingerbread house opens to the public Saturday, Nov. 26, during a holiday open house. Bring the kids and your sweet tooth.

Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/11/fairmont-san-francisco-unveils-largest-ever-gingerbread-house#ixzz1erFNkoeY

Well crap, can't get the picture to show. Google Fairmont gingerbread house to see.

 
Link to story/photos -- They use to wrap the whole lobby in gingerbread: fantastic!

You'll see in the first photo the large columns in the lobby -- they at one point wrapped all of those and the walls/etc of the lobby in real gingerbread and had a village of houses that went into the restaurants/rooms off the lobby. The smell is incredible and is one of my favorite reasons to go into the city during the holidays. It is a not to be missed tradition if you go to SF during the holidays.

We use to always go to SF the day after TG, back before it was "Black Friday" and the stores didn't have the same thing as in every mall everywhere. Ahhh I miss going to Podesta Baldocchi on Grant St. and picking gifts right off a room full of fresh christmas trees...

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/11/fairmont-san-francisco-unveils-largest-ever-gingerbread-house#ixzz1erFNkoeY

 
Whoa! I guess size DOES matter. I'm humbled.

They're using the brilliantly simple idea thought up by Mrs. Ashley Howard of Winter Springs, FL in 2009--and which won her first place in the National Gingerbread House contest held in Asheville, NC: she baked tiny "bricks" of gingerbread and then mortared a three story house with Royal Icing cement. Trust me, this is so much more structurally sound than trying to architect a building with flat panels of baked dough THAT CAN GET SOFT. AND BEND.

http://pondercove.blogspot.com/2008/11/gingerbread-house-contest.html

 
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