Sweet competition turns competitive |
| Posted by Administrator on Dec 10 2008 at 3:24 PM |
Photo by Laura Schemper
On Thursday groups of students carefully constructed gingerbread houses in the Gingerbread House Cometition. From left: Emily Burkey, an undecided major from Scottsbluff; Megan Faust, a business management major freshman from Peterberg; Phillip Boon, a freshmna business management major from Fremont, and Jennifer Wegner, a freshaman undecided major from Lindsay, work on their gingerbread house.
By Tara Purdie
Antelope Staff
On Dec. 4, the hands of several students had to fly to efficiently and creatively build a gingerbread house masterpiece in the Ponderosa Room of the Student Union for the annual Gingerbread House Competition.
The teams were given three cups of frosting, three packs of graham crackers and 25 minutes to complete their designs. Licorice, gumdrops, candy canes, pretzels, ice cream cones, peppermints and powdered sugar were basic staples included in almost each house despite the various themes. The gingerbread houses varied from log cabins to castles to towers and tree houses and included sleighs with reindeer, frozen lakes and even a hot tub.
Sophomore multimedia major Laura Housholder from Scandia, Kan. said she had never built a gingerbread house before this competition but that she wanted to enter because it looked fun and she needed to escape from homework. Housholder's team took first place winning $150.
"We were pretty relaxed about the whole thing. We definitely did not expect to win, which I believe in turn helped us do better because we were not stressing over it," Housholder said.
One of her teammates, Samantha Bohl, a sophomore biology pre-med major from Crete had also never made a gingerbread house before. Bohl said that this was a new experience for her.
Bohl said the thing she enjoyed most about the competition was, "getting messy with frosting and just having fun without really caring whether we win or not." Housholder and Bohl along with their teammate Brittany Weinandt said that they chose to create the White House.
"We knew making the White House would be a tough task, but we accomplished more than we thought we could. Also if you look at a picture of the White House you are able to see how much detail we tried putting into our house," Bohl said. The teammates both said that they want to build something that would be easily recognized and add a little Christmas spirit.
