Two shifts of craftspeople young and old gathered at Kukui Grove Center to build homes yesterday. Edible homes. The Second Annual Gingerbread Festival gave participants the chance to purchase most of the raw materials needed to build their own gingerbread
Two shifts of craftspeople young and old gathered at Kukui Grove Center to build homes yesterday.
Edible homes.
The Second Annual Gingerbread Festival gave participants the chance to purchase most of the raw materials needed to build their own gingerbread homes, with the Easter Seals Hawaii Kauai Service Center as the fund-raiser beneficiary.
Teams of builders young and old joined forces and gingerbread walls and roofs, given cake flats, sections of gingerbread walls and roofs, toothpicks, knives, pretzels, mini candy canes, and various other assorted candies, and places to sit down and create their own edible dream homes.
Icing doubled as adhesive to hold walls and roofs together and secure sweet shingles and other adornments.
Easter Seal staff, friends and volunteers from the Kaua’i High School Leo Club were available with construction tips, scissors to loan, and other encouragement.
The 20-plus tables were nearly full during the first shift, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., with some of the Leo Club members joining forces to create homes of their own. A full second shift saw different types of affordable homes constructed as well.
Participants brought their own edible construction materials as well, including licorice, shredded wheat cereal, candy corn, and other suitable building materials.
In addition to building the homes, participants also got creative with sweet landscaping and other adornments on the round cake flats that represented the undeveloped lots.
