Some days it may feel like you’ve eaten 3.7 million calories, but The Broadmoor’s 12-foot-tall, 150-square-foot gingerbread house actually is 3.7 million calories. (As calculated by a PR rep with the hotel who perhaps has too much time on their hands.)
The Broadmoor has created a larger-than-life gingerbread house for the past 32 years, but this year’s is the biggest ever. An army of 10 master pastry chefs and two carpenters spent more than 220 hours building this stunning gingerbread replica of the property’s Pauline Chapel. Because nothing says ’tis the season like 288,495 percent of your recommended daily intake of carbs.
Here’s what all went into it:
- 958 pounds of powdered sugar
- 475 pounds of flour
- 650 eggs
- 19 pounds of holiday spices
- 200 pounds of honey
- 128 pounds of molasses
- 6 pounds of salt
- 78 pounds of assorted candies, gumballs and fruit jellies
- 164 pounds of dark chocolate
- 89 pounds of butter
- 3 pounds of baking soda
- 10 pounds of heavy cream
- 2 pounds of fresh yeast
Sounds great, doesn’t it? Just don’t go biting into it; I think that’s frowned upon.
The gingerbread chapel will be up through Jan. 2 in the lobby at Broadmoor Main.
The Broadmoor: 1 Lake Ave., Colorado Springs; broadmoor.com
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