2021 - Spotlight on Volunteer Baker, Chelsea Hardy

sneak peek of the Eiffel Tower
   Chelsea Hardy
    Gingerbread Creation at stop #8 Tifiny's Creperie
    567 Valley View Drive, St George
    Hours: M-Sa 10 AM - 7 PM; Closed Sundays

Chelsea is a special kind of genius because she can CAD computer program really good. The thing you notice about her gingerbread creations year after year is the attention to detail and the precision and that's because she will often design her creation in a CAD program - because she can't do math but she knows interior design... and her husband is good at the mathematics! Anyway, that's why Chelsea's gingerbread creations are next level!

Two years ago she did a Harry Potter castle. It was mind blowing. I stared at it a while. This year, she has done it again, with her miniature Eiffel Tower! It's absolutely stunning.

So, go see it! I will leave some photos below of her past gingerbread creations. Last year was the most different because she did this more abstract Dinosaur style design for the Dinosaur Discovery Site. And everything on it was edible - even the tree leaves. It was rad. 

All photos courtesy Chelsea Hardy, owner of Dulcet Cake Company

This one was from a few years back, even before I joined to Gingerbread tour.
It might have been from the year they had an "around the world" theme.

People didn't even think it was real gingerbread. They thought it was cardboard.
But there is video of it being put together and it's definitely gingerbread!

Detail of the chapel windows.

First she baked the gingerbread, and then they were precision cut on a laser thing
 - like at a maker lab of sorts. 




I love the attention to detail! 
Just look at those hand painted sugar cookie dinosaurs.




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