Treat Your Sweet Tooth!
Posted in Holiday Train Show on November 29 2012, by Matt Newman
While the shingles may be drifting ever so slowly off the roof, and the gummy candy filling in for the lamp post has taken a header into the driveway, we don’t expect your homemade gingerbread house to be a triumph of art and engineering. It just has to taste good! But at the NYBG, our visiting bakers do hold themselves to a standard above anything most of us can piece together during an afternoon with a frosting bag.
This year, Gingerbread Adventures returns with more sugar, spice, and everything nice than you can wave an edible blueprint at. We’re back in the Discovery Center of the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden for cookie-decorating (and eating!), along with plenty of other holiday activities to keep your little one’s sweet tooth in the game. Beyond a perfectly reasonable sugar high, we’ll be offering fun craft and learning activities to focus that energy, along with a back-to-basics approach to the gingerbread cookie itself. Before the ingredients ever reach the supermarket shelf, your kids can learn the origins of sugar through sugar cane, grind their own cinnamon, and see ginger in its fresh-from-the-ground form. It goes a long way toward teaching them that not everything comes straight from the shrink wrap.
And, of course, there are the gingerbread houses themselves! Some of our favorite New York bakers have pitched in once again to build us a community of picturesque cookie homes in the Discovery Center, where the smell alone will be enough to lift your spirits–not to mention the brilliant designs.
Gingerbread Adventures is currently running between 1:30 and 5:30 p.m. on weekdays, and 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on weekends, right here in our Everett Children’s Adventure Garden. And since it continues through the end of the Holiday Train Show, there are plenty of opportunities to bring your tagalongs over for a special treat on us. My recommendation? See the Train Show first, then treat them to a little hand-crafted dessert of their own devising. Somehow, a gingerbread cookie is that much better when you pile on the frosting yourself.
