Makes: A2 sized gingerbread model

Time required: 15-20 hours in total

Difficulty: ★★★★☆

Inspiration:

Having made my first gingerbread house last year (recipe in this post) I wanted to make something bigger and more complex this year. That’s where my Civil Engineering degree comes in handy – it was my childhood dream to build skyscrapers. I decided to take inspiration from some of the cities I’ve travelled to this year – Hong Kong (now home … I made this my centerpiece), Melbourne (old/second home), Tokyo, Shanghai, Macau, London and Singapore. I also wanted to include Boracay, Seoul and Kunming but didn’t want to over complicate the gingerbread model.

Components of the gingerbread city:

• Hong Kong: Bank of China Tower, The Centre
• Melbourne: Eureka Tower, Melbourne Central Office Tower, Melbourne Cricket Ground
• London: Tower Bridge, London Eye (or it could have been a Ferris wheel from any city …)
• Tokyo: Pagoda of Sensoji – it was meant to be five stories but I kept it to three so it didn’t outshine the Bank of China Tower
• Singapore: Marina Bay Sands … although several people mistook this for the Stonehenge 😦
• Shanghai: Oriental Pearl Tower
• Macau: The Ruins of St Paul’s

Recipe:

I used the same recipe as last year, although required two batches of gingerbread and two batches of icing to make all the components for the gingercity

Finished Gingercity:

 

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