Fireplace

This is my main gingerbread project this year.  It was inspired by @Julia M. Usher fireplace 3-D project.  And the pinecones from the candelabra!! (I had to find a home for those pinecones!) It's 100% edible and about 3 feet tall.  

Oh how gorgeous!!! I love your fireplace scene @LisaF . What a lot of work you've put into this scene for Christmas. All the wonderful detail and I'm totally amazed at the sheer size of it!! I don't know how long it took you to make this scene but it's definitely worth it. Now, who is going to eat this creation? NO...you can't eat it, it's too beautiful ❤️❤️

I am speechless! It’s divine, fabulous artwork!

LisaF posted:

Aproned Artist posted:

Amazing! How did you make the tree?

Thank you so much @Aproned Artist!  I made the tree by taking various sizes of star shaped cookies and baking them over a half sphere mold to get a contoured shape.  I baked cookies of various sizes with branch/evergreen imprints from a silicone mold.  I used royal icing to attach the branches to the contoured stars.  Once dry, I used royal icing to stack the branched connected stars.  That gave me a pretty solid frame.  Then I inserted cookie branches of various sizes into the gaps and to basically fill it out.  It looked more like a branched out pole at the beginning but the filling in of the branches gave it that traditional tree look.

Brilliant! I never would have guessed it was just cookie and icing.

Aproned Artist posted:

Amazing! How did you make the tree?

Thank you so much @Aproned Artist!  I made the tree by taking various sizes of star shaped cookies and baking them over a half sphere mold to get a contoured shape.  I baked cookies of various sizes with branch/evergreen imprints from a silicone mold.  I used royal icing to attach the branches to the contoured stars.  Once dry, I used royal icing to stack the branched connected stars.  That gave me a pretty solid frame.  Then I inserted cookie branches of various sizes into the gaps and to basically fill it out.  It looked more like a branched out pole at the beginning but the filling in of the branches gave it that traditional tree look.

Amazing! How did you make the tree?

Amazing!!

Icingsugarkeks posted:

OMG!!! WOW! Lisa, this is so enchanting, festive and wonderful!!! Such detailed work!! I really love this szene!! @LisaF 

Thank you so much !

OMG!!! WOW! Lisa, this is so enchanting, festive and wonderful!!! Such detailed work!! I really love this szene!! @LisaF 

Impressive! The perspective on the main photo is so deceiving (in a good way). It looks like the fireplace is sitting right in front of your real oven, and is even taller than it! I was wondering how you baked cookie pieces THAT big! Great job and thanks for the shout-out.

Wow!

Cookies Fantastique by Carol posted:

Oh how gorgeous!!! I love your fireplace scene @LisaF . What a lot of work you've put into this scene for Christmas. All the wonderful detail and I'm totally amazed at the sheer size of it!! I don't know how long it took you to make this scene but it's definitely worth it. Now, who is going to eat this creation? NO...you can't eat it, it's too beautiful ❤️❤️

Thank you so much @Cookies Fantastique!  I do tend to go bigger on my creations because I'm not quite as delicate and precise as many of you lovely bakers.  It did take hundreds of hours though I tend to lose track.  Though it is edible, I hope too that it remains together.  I put it up for a charity auction and usually it becomes part of a Christmas-scape of someone's holiday decorations.  (but who knows what people nibble on behind closed doors 😂😂!

Evelindecora posted:

I am speechless! It’s divine, fabulous artwork!

Thank you so much @Evelindecora!!

Elke Hoelzle posted:

Amazing!!

Thank you Elke!

Julia M. Usher posted:

Impressive! The perspective on the main photo is so deceiving (in a good way). It looks like the fireplace is sitting right in front of your real oven, and is even taller than it! I was wondering how you baked cookie pieces THAT big! Great job and thanks for the shout-out.

Thanks Julia! The front and back of  chimney  is actually three individual pieces, glued together with isomalt. The individual bricks are attached with royal icing and hide the seams.