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SWEET DISCOVERIES
Spice up your holiday memories with a visit to a world where bunnies are larger than life and caterpillars are made of pine cones. Where you can discover the earthly treasures of cinnamon, ginger, and cloves; decorate gingersnap cookies; and create fragrant sachets. Where you can grind and smell dried spices and create a field notebook of your hands-on visit. Where you can delight in the confectionary details of gingerbread houses extravagantly designed by world-class pastry chefs and enter inside a kid-sized gingerbread house.
These "sense-sational" experiences are all part of Gingerbread Adventures, a treat for the entire family.
In the Everett Children's Adventure Garden. On days when Garden is open: Tue-Fri 1:30-5:30; Sat-Sun 10-5:30. More information.
ALL-NEW WINTER WONDERLAND OF GINGERBREAD HOUSES
Some of New York's most celebrated and imaginative bakers have spent countless hours designing the sweet stars of this year's incredible display. Enveloped in the scents of ginger, cinnamon, and clove, this exhibition of five colorful gingerbread "houses" is sure to capture the imaginations of children and adults alike while evoking all the wonder and magic of the holiday season. In the Everett Children's Adventure Garden; November 23, 2007, to Jan 13, 2008
MEET THE CHEFS AND THEIR MASTERPIECES
Mark Tasker, pastry chef of Balthazar in Soho, replicates a snow-covered Empire State Building.
Jill Adams of The Cake Studio takes a whimsical look at a magical fairy forest in winter that also peeks in on the animals hibernating underground. Adams, who is based in Brooklyn, was teaching art and cooking classes in elementary schools in New York when, on a whim, she went to culinary school where she discovered a new world: combining art and pastry.
Kaye Hansen and Liv Hansen, the mother-daughter team of Riviera Bakehouse in Ardsley in Westchester County, create a snow-covered castle protected by an icy mote inhabited by a dragon. Named "Best of Westchester" by Westchester Magazine for the past five years, they launched the whimsicalbakehouse.com Web site, which contains recipes, streaming videos, decorating ideas, and event listings. Their third book, Little Cakes from the Whimsical Bakehouse, is due out in February.
Ruth Seidler of JollyBe Bakery in Park Slope, Brooklyn, themes her wintery "stained glass" house on a variety of birds. Seidler worked as an art conservator for museums before establishing JollyBe Bakery in 2002, where she draws on art and design ideas from the past and other cultures to create custom cakes.
Kate Sullivan of LovinSullivanCakes in Manhattan makes a gingerbread rocket ship that is out of this world—the "house" is set in a winter wonderland on the moon. Sullivan, author of Kate's Cake Decorating, combines her love of designing and painting with an infatuation for chocolate. A former magazine photography director, Kate learned her baking and decorating skills from books and from trial and error.
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