Instructor - Gingerbread House Artist Pat Ashley Howard

For the first time ever you have the opportunity to learn techniques used to create extraordinary gingerbread houses by nationally award winning gingerbread house artist Pat Ashley Howard.

In this five-day intensive workshop, you will learn hands-on many of the techniques, original methods, and processes that Pat Ashley has developed over the years that have led her to become a professional gingerbread house artist. Students will leave with a completed gingerbread house and the knowledge to create exceptional gingerbread houses of their own design. And perhaps even award-winning!

Pat Ashley is a three-time winner of the National Gingerbread House Competition, has made multiple appearances on the Food Network, featured in Cake Masters Magazine, HGTV, the Travel Channel and the ABC Network, and more.

Class size for this intimate event will be very limited.

This intensive training will include:
• How to design and create a gingerbread house pattern/template
• Making construction-grade gingerbread house dough
• Making construction-grade royal icing
• Cut and bake gingerbread house components
• Making unique impression patterns on gingerbread
• Making gelatin windows and isomalt windows
• Assembling gingerbread house walls & roof
• Adding decor & accent pieces
• Making a brick walkway
• Making grass and green hedges
• Making wrought-iron fences
• Making seasonal pine greenery
• Snow!
• All edible ingredients
• The ends and outs of gingerbread house competitions
• and…..you will make and use Pat Ashley‘s secret original recipe for sculpting ginger

Skill level: beginner to intermediate

Age requirement: students must be at least 18 years of age. No exceptions.

You will take home:
• All recipes
• Gingerbread house pattern/template
• A completed display-ready gingerbread house
• The knowledge to create a gingerbread house of your own design

Note: If you join us for this first time ever intensive workshop you must attend all five days in order to have a completed project at the end.

Breaks: Students will be given a 30-minute break halfway through the class. We encourage students to bring their own lunch & drink as nearby food establishments are busy during break time

Cost: $495.00

Photographs - Are permitted, we encourage sharing on social media. However, students sharing class material or step-by-step illustrations will not be permitted in future classes.

Videotaping - Is prohibited.

ARTIST PAT ASHLEY HOWARD

Pat Ashley Howard is a nationally acclaimed confectionery artist best known for her award-winning gingerbread houses. In 2006 she created her first-ever gingerbread house and won the annual National Gingerbread House Competition which features hundreds of diehard gingerbread artists yearly.

The following year she won the grand prize again and a third time in 2011. Since then Pat Ashley has made numerous appearances on the Food Network, The Travel Channel, and TLC to name a few. Her creations have been featured many times on Good Morning America, on display for Ripley’s Believe it or Not, and in Cake Masters magazine.

Gingerbread houses and cookie and cupcake decorating are her other passions and she loves sharing and teaching the craft! But when she’s not baking most likely you’ll find her engaging in her other love folding colorful scrapbook paper into boxes and bags creating party favors for friends and family!

Her favorite quote is - When your heart is in your dreams no request is too extreme. - Jiminy Cricket