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Sickles High Students Sweeten Holiday With Culinary Skills
Tribune photo by JIM REED
Sickles High School culinary students decorate a life-sized gingerbread house made for the holidays at the Westfield Citrus Park mall.
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Published: December 4, 2008
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TAMPA - Sickles High School students touched up cookie and graham cracker tiles with icing mortar Wednesday as they worked to complete a gingerbread house taller than the teens.
Members of the school's culinary program spent three days this week at the Westfield Citrus Park mall crafting a giant gingerbread house that will remain on display through the holiday season. The house, dotted with gumdrops and marshmallows, sits in front of the Sears entrance.
Three Sweetbay supermarkets pitched in to donate cookies, candy and icing. Alessi Bakery provided 71 sheets of gingerbread for the home's walls.
See the Sickles gingerbread house through Dec. 24 in front of Sears at Westfield Citrus Park, 8021 Citrus Park Town Center.
By The Numbers
500: Pounds of gingerbread
225: Pounds of icing
800: Cookies as decoration
300: Pounds of marshmallows
7: Feet tall
6: Feet wide
28: Sickles High culinary students who helped build the house
18 1/2: Hours spent in construction
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