Posted on 12/10/2003 12:41:41 PM PST by martin_fierro
Giant Gingerbread Man Is One Tough Cookie
Wed Dec 10,10:08 AM ET
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Doormen at a luxury hotel have an unusual rival for guests' attention this month: a giant gingerbread man cookie that chef Othmar Steinhart hopes will earn immortality as a Guinness world record.
Taking Christmas cheer to new heights, Steinhart, a chef at the Hyatt Regency, baked the 13-foot, 9-inch sweet and spicy cookie using 220 pounds of flour, cupfuls of ginger spice, 44 pounds of sugar, and 5.3 gallons of molasses and butter.
The downtown Vancouver hotel is awaiting confirmation from Guinness World Records that its super-sized cookie beats the current record holder -- an 11-foot specimen baked by students from a Texas high school in 1998.
Although the smiling and bow-tied contender risks a hungry passerby breaking off a limb, he faces a less sticky end than the runaway gingerbread man of the children's folktale who was caught and consumed by a fox.
After five weeks on display in the hotel's lobby, Steinhart said, the flat, brown cookie won't be edible.
A giant gingerbread man cookie sits on display in the lobby of a Vancouver, British Columbia hotel, hoping to earn chef Othmar Steinhart immortality as a Guinness world record. Steinhart, a chef at the Hyatt Regency, baked the 4.2-meter biscuit using 100kg of flour, 20 kg of sugar and 20 litres of molasses and butter. REUTERS/Andy Clark
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