Edible Sports Stadium For National Gingerbread House Day

Hi Guys!

Did you know that today, December 12th, is known as National Gingerbread House Day? Many do not know this, unless you have this gingerbread house building as a tradition in your family 🙂 To some though, even when they do not have the tradition, they would know it if they like cookies much, because December is baking month, where friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, and strangers, gift baked goods around, and cookie and gingerbread house (which is made of cookie) are always celebrated not far from one another, both are in December – just FYI haha

So, to commemorate National Gingerbread House Day, let me share you recipe and steps of how my husband made this EDIBLE sports stadium, which yes, made of gingerbread cookies.

This gingerbread sports stadium, is a replica of our local sports stadium, by the way.

At our annual gingerbread house competition this year, my husband decided that he wanted to send an entry of his own, instead as a family, so while the kids and I build a ski resort, he built a stadium – yep, go big or go home, it’s always his motto lol

Shared him my gingerbread cookie recipe and the end result, was not bad at all. In fact, he came up as 1st winner. We are so proud of him, but also sad in a way or two, as that means ours (the kids and mine) did not win 😛

He definitely did a great job, even the city asked whether they could display his edible sports stadium at the original building 🙂 When we dropped it of at the office, they even set up a nice table with a nice tablecloth. So fancy hahahha Needless to say, am JEALOUS 😛 What a beginner’s luck indeed, won, and treated special 😛

Here is how he made it!

• 2 flax eggs
• 3 1/4 c flour
• 1/2 c molasses (divide)
• 1 tsp BSoda
• A pinch of salt
• 1 tsp each ginger powder, cinnamon powder, all spice powder
• 1/2 c palm sugar
• 8 tbsp vegetable shortening

Method

• Mix dry ingredients
• Cream shortening and brown sugar
• Beat in 1/4 c molasses and flax egg
• Add in dry mix a little at a time
• Beat in the other 1/4 c molasses
• Knead a little
• Roll flat and cut as you like (or mold in this case, to a stadium shape)
• Bake on preheated 350 F for an hour
• Cool on rack and let it stand for 2 weeks before taking out of the mold
• Assemble, decorate!

After 2 weeks, time to assemble and decorate your sports stadium. I taught him to use hot melted sugar instead royal icing, because, seriously, I have no patient in teaching him 😛 It will mess my kitchen, so i told him to just use hot melted sugar (wife of the year here :P).

And since I did not teach him about royal icing, he colored his pieces with food color right away, by brushing the food colors onto his pieces.But for final pieces, pillars and whatnot, he was getting too lazy to make another batch of hot melted sugar (in his defense, one batch requires 1 c of sugar, what a shame :P) and he asked whether he could use up my leftover royal icing instead. Luckily he did not need much as I did not have enough after building my own gingerbread house for the competition, so he could finish attaching some of his pieces.

He finished up decorating his sports stadium with desiccated coconut as the snow and he printed some sports pictures and put them up as banners. He really taking short cuts for everything hahahahha I mean, if it was me, I like all these EDIBLE and am always stressful in creating this and that as I want perfection, but him? Meh, let’s just use laminated and printed and hot glued stuffs, and VOILA, came as a winner he did. What a luck, right? HHAHAHAHAHAH (see, I do sound jealous, right????!!!)There you go. A full tutorial on how to build an edible sports stadium made of gingerbread cookies, for this year’s National Gingerbread House Day :)And OH! He made about 3-4 batches of the gingerbread dough above, you have to double and tripled and what is 4 times? Idk lol

Thanks for reading!