Gingerbread House Building Competition

May the best gingerbread house win!

Join Black Spruce Brewing Company for our first ever gingerbread house building competition! Judged by Fairbanks' own pro bakers Wendy Boger (House of the Rising Bun) and Cathy Skrivanek (Marlo's Bakery), this fun and festive competition is open to all ages and is accompanied by a festive movie marathon!

Competition Rules

• Your registration is for your team of two (2) people (any age, but under 21 must be accompanied by a parent/legal guardian), and you two are the only ones who can work on your house.
• Gingerbread house kits will be provided (four walls and a roof, frosting, some decorations).
• Competitors are welcome to and encouraged to bring additional decorations (extra frosting, cookies or candies). However, everything on your house must be decorated and assembled onsite during the competition window (no decorating cookies ahead of time), and everything on your final house must be edible.
• All teams will have two (2) hours, from 5PM to 7PM, to assemble and decorate their houses. All hands and any inedible items must be off of houses at 7PM.
• Registration includes two (2) drink tokens, redeemable at Black Spruce's bar for any beverage on the menu (day of the competition only, to-go items ineligible).
• Judging will be done blind (judges will not know whose house is whose) and will commence no later than 7:15PM. Judges will rank houses on completeness, decoration and creativity.
• First, second and third place prizes will be announced and awarded around 7:30PM-7:45PM.
• Competitors may either take their houses home with them or toss them. They don't have to go but they can't stay here.

Space is limited, so sign up today!

Info: We'll be playing winter-themed movies all evening long. Exact movies TBA.

Info: Competing teams of two will have two (2) hours to build their gingerbread houses. Kits, including pieces of the house itself, frosting for binding and some decorations, will be provided. Competitors may bring their own additional decorations, but everything must be assembled and decorated onsite (so you can't decorate a bunch of extra cookies ahead of time and throw them on your house). No one but the two team members may touch the house, and hands must be off of houses at 7PM.

Info: All houses will be judged by two of Fairbanks' most esteemed professional bakers: House of the Rising Bun's Wendy Boger and Marlo's Bakery's Cathy Skrivanek! Judging will be done blind, meaning that the judges will not know which teams constructed which houses. Judging will be based on completeness of the house (four walls and a roof), decoration and creativity.

Info: After feverish assembly and manic decorating, it's time to announce the winner! The grand prize will be a $250 gift card to Black Spruce Brewing Company, and prizes will be awarded for second and third place, as well (prizes TBA).

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Black Spruce Brewing Company, 3290 Peger Road, Fairbanks, United States

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