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Ten batches of gingerbread and nine groups can only mean culinary is baking gingerbread houses “Great Scott!”
There were many groups working on different houses.  One group in particular made a Back To The Future ginger bread house.
With nine groups and each group consisted of five members, with two “second-year” students who acted as the group leaders.  Also in the group were three “first-years” who helped to construct the house and learn from the second-years.
Senior second-year Martin Pandola came up with the theme of the Back To The Future house.
“I really love the movie and the clock tower scene, I just had to choose it,” senior Martin Pandola said.
With Pandola and senior second-year Edeline Ong coming together as the leaders they worked with their team.
“I am constantly learning new things from the second-years every day.  Whether it’s learning where something goes in the kitchen, learning a new technique or learning how to stay calm in new situations,” junior first-year Jen Saucedo said. “I know I can always go to the second-years for help or advice.”
As they all worked together they did have their good and bad times.
“It was difficult when the group was not in agreement with one another on a certain piece of the project,” junior first-year Kathryn Mayo said “However, it was a good learning experience to talk things through and make compromises.”
The team came together and decided that 10 types of candies were needed for the houses decoration along with fondant and icing.
“We used a few different types of candies and sweets like ice cream cones, licorice, coconut and a handful of other types of sweets,” Pandola said.
With only a week to work on the project it took the team roughly nine hours to complete the project.  Within that week stressful situations occurred with the house.
“The most stressful part about making the house was the humidity that week. The humidity and changes in temperature caused our roof to warp,” Mayo said.
With such a problem, the team talked to Chef Richard Winemiller and figured out how to fix the roof.
“We asked chef what to do about it and he told us to cut the section out and build walls in the middle where the opening was, and then to put the old roof back on,” junior Jack Clements said.
This was not the only struggle they had faced with their house’s construction.
“One of the big struggles we had was connecting two pieces of “wire”, which was made of licorice, together from the building.  We had to put some icing down on top of the tree and pin it down.  At first the wire kept sliding away, but eventually we figured out how to fix it,” Ong said.
The team put on the finishing details and stood back to admire the work that had been finished by them from the weeks of work.