Pastry chef creates incredible 13ft gingerbread train complete with 2,200 lbs of bricks

Daily Mail ^ | 24 December 2017 | Sophie Haslett

[mairdie]

Esteemed Sydney-based pastry chef, Anna Polyviou, has created a special four-metre-long gingerbread train, complete with 1,000 kilograms of gingerbread bricks, 200 lollipops and lashings of icing.

The incredible structure is currently on display at Sydney's Shangri La hotel, where it will remain over the festive season until December 31.

[mairdie]

[Nifster]

And I felt done in by six dozen ginger bread 🍪

[mairdie]

Now these are some crummy creations! Gingerbread house makers share their sweet mistakes on Instagram






The world's largest gingerbread house had an estimated calorific value exceeding 35.8 million and included 1,800 pounds of butter 2,925 pounds of brown sugar, 7,200 eggs and 7,200 pounds of flour

[mairdie]

PING

[Hatteras]

Nailed it...

[17th Miss Regt]

No picture of a gingerbread crack house?

[sparklite2]

Just looking at it makes me sick of gingerbread.

[Chuckster]

Heck, I was expecting a train. That’s just a locomotive. d:^(

[Safetgiver]

I got gingerbread PEEPS for Christmas.

[Safetgiver]

Photo#2. I thought I flushed that this AM.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Akin to journalists’ inability to discern between a cartridge and a bullet.

[nwrep]

[mairdie]

Never liked gingerbread. I like my ginger in ginger beef.

[mairdie]

Nails. Gingerbreak. Hmmmm. No. My carpenter great grandfather would be rolling over at the thought.

[mairdie]

Will they freeze and keep for Easter?

[bgill]

Strange house with windows in the fireplaces. Looks like they’re being burgled.

[bgill]

That’s one reason I don’t like eating out. I’d much rather made dinner myself and if there’s any germs, they’re mine.

[Fungi]

Why?