Gingerbread Houses with Ms.Etch

Yesterday the teens were invited to a special cooking class segment on building gingerbread houses. All of the students who participated admitted that they'd never built one before. They look so amazing-- you'd never believe they were all first-timers!

Ms.Etch instructs the students on building a solid structure to decorate

Several students quickly learn this is not as easy as it looks!

These boys work together to fill an icing bag... the resulting mess was well worth it!

Quickly, these stacks of geometric shapes start to look like houses!

We learned it takes A LOT of icing to make that gingerbread stick together!

Decorating was the easiest part!

Here are the final products. They look awesome!

A special thanks to Ms.Etch for heading up this workshop! The teens learned a lot-- and had so much fun!

The class ended as all gingerbread house constructions end... with students asking very politely if they can eat the remnants of the frosting bags!