bake time for travel

Who doesn't love cookies on vacation?

happy feat

In the quaint Whoville of a village where I spend Thanksgiving, there is an annual gingerbread competition. Sometimes my family enters.

After taking a few years off, my uncle led the charge with a 'Happy Feet' inspired entry. My mother helped a lot. The rest of us consulted a little.

Check out their our awesome creation--

This is one tall and sturdy penguin. If you want to make a huge piece of gingerbread, and chip your teeth eating it, you should use the recipe (at the end of the post) that constructed this guy.

There were other super entries too. I took pictures of them--it will last longer.