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SOUTH BEND - Eight-year-old Annice Barber-Petroff almost gave up three
times, and when you see the detail in the gingerbread treehouse she
created for a local holiday competition up close, you understand why.
Instead of starting with a prebaked house from a kit, Annice used an
aluminum tin can to serve as the mold for the trunk of her homemade
gingerbread treehouse.
“It sunk a little when it was baking,” Annice said, pointing to the
base of the tree as she rotated the Lazy Susan on which it rested
among a few dozen entries.
With marshmallow and Chicklet presents, taffy chairs, a woven licorice
rug and gingerbread men inside, Annice made her treehouse accessible
from a red rope licorice ladder leading to a dried vegetable chip
path.
Pretzel rod limbs stick out of the tree, which is surrounded by and
covered with frosting snow. A ground coffee trail leads toward a blue
frosting pond filled with cheese cracker fish, above which you see a
dangling gummy ring tire swing.
“I thought about using a doughnut, but it was too heavy,” she said Sunday.
Annice also looked quite proud of the more traditional gingerbread
times, and when you see the detail in the gingerbread treehouse she
created for a local holiday competition up close, you understand why.
Instead of starting with a prebaked house from a kit, Annice used an
aluminum tin can to serve as the mold for the trunk of her homemade
gingerbread treehouse.
“It sunk a little when it was baking,” Annice said, pointing to the
base of the tree as she rotated the Lazy Susan on which it rested
among a few dozen entries.
With marshmallow and Chicklet presents, taffy chairs, a woven licorice
rug and gingerbread men inside, Annice made her treehouse accessible
from a red rope licorice ladder leading to a dried vegetable chip
path.
Pretzel rod limbs stick out of the tree, which is surrounded by and
covered with frosting snow. A ground coffee trail leads toward a blue
frosting pond filled with cheese cracker fish, above which you see a
dangling gummy ring tire swing.
“I thought about using a doughnut, but it was too heavy,” she said Sunday.
Annice also looked quite proud of the more traditional gingerbread
