The festival received the first shipment of cookies shortly before opening day on Saturday, and periodically gets additional shipments as they are baked. It’s a sturdy cookie with a wonderful flavor,” said Johnson. “They come to us well-wrapped with no breakage. Jubelt’s made the cookies for the Festival of Trees last year, too. We’ll get it ready, box it and have it ready for you to pick up when you leave,” said Best. “Let us know when you come in if you want an order to go. On Friday, Family Day, tables are set aside so kids (and their parents) can decorate their own purchased cookies with icing and sprinkles. Some customers ask for extra icing, while others request their gingerbread men naked. If decorators make a mistake, they scrape off the icing and start over. They fly out of here as fast as we get them done,” said Best. Ideally, the iced cookies should set for a while to let the icing harden. “We have a lot of people who specifically request to work here, including a lot of high school kids who do their service hours here,” said Clark.ĭuring the festival, gingerbread decorators will use 242 pounds of white, vanilla-flavored icing, which comes in 11-pound tubs. “They look at the pictures and then they’re on their own,” said Maureen Best, a retired Chatham Elementary School music teacher and the other cookie co-chair. Some are piped with buttons, necklaces, boots, scarves or pockets, while others are iced with stars, snowflakes, squiggles or dots. Festival volunteers often ask to work in the Gingerbread Cookie Bakery, said cookie co-chair Shirley Clark, a retired Chatham Elementary School art teacherĭecorators are given a pastry bag full of white icing, shown some photos of decorated gingerbread men and told to use their imaginations.
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