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Holiday Crafts Take Center Stage
at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge
The splendor of the holidays welcomes guests to
Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge for a unique ornament activity
that is easy and fun for the entire family.
Through the Animal Programs Education Team, cultural
representatives from Africa welcome Disney guests to an annual
ornament activity held in the Jambo House lobby from 3-7:30 p.m.
throughout the month of December.
The spirit of the season is celebrated as guests
gather together to craft these unique holiday ornaments from
ostrich egg shells. The unfertilized eggs come from both
Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge and neighboring Disney’s Animal
Kingdom theme park. The hard shells are crushed and then dyed
into colorful pieces that are glued onto animal-shaped ornaments and
hung by recycled telephone wire. A final touch of glitter and
beads make the mosaic-like ornaments a nice take-home from a
memorable Disney vacation.
The craft-making is a popular holiday activity at
the African-themed resort with donations going to the Disney
Worldwide Conservation Fund, which supports conservation projects
throughout the world. Last year the month-long activity
collected more than $10,000 in donations. (A $5 donation per
ornament is suggested.)
Delicious Holiday Designs on Display at Walt
Disney World
Pastry chefs throughout Walt Disney World Resort make things a
little sweeter with deliciously decorative displays and sugar shacks
made of yummy ingredients during the winter holidays. These
candy-decked dwellings adorn the lobbies at various Walt Disney
World resort hotels. On the menu this holiday season at Walt
Disney World Resort:
Disney’s Contemporary
Resort
New this year on the hotel’s fourth floor is a holiday tree
inspired by the art of Disney Legend Mary Blair (whose work can be
seen in the mural on the fourth-floor concourse wall). A team
of 25 bakers created the 17-foot-high tree (6 feet wide) with
gingerbread shingles.
Ingredient Fun Facts:
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136 lbs. of honey
101 lbs. of flour
50 eggs
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75 lbs. of icing
5 lbs. of spices
5 pounds of sugar syrup
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Disney's Beach Club Resort
This holiday season marks the 10th anniversary of the “Holiday
Carousel,” a fully detailed, life-sized carousel in the resort’s
lobby that is created from a recipe that uses gingerbread, chocolate
and sugar paste, and tons of enthusiasm, energy and talent. Guests
who wish to take home a treat of their own can buy small gingerbread
houses from the Beach Club Marketplace. Once a day, a guest is
selected to have a photo with pastry chef Stefan Riemer and to
receive a specially created gingerbread shingle.
Carousel fun fact: 10 “hidden Mickeys,” one for each year,
can be found on the carousel.
Ingredient Fun Facts:
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36 lbs. of honey
96 lbs. of bread flour
100 pints of eggs
10 lbs. of spices
10 quarts of simple syrup
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100 lbs. of icing
50 lbs. of dark chocolate
10 quarts of egg whites
100 lbs. of confectioner
sugar
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Disney's Yacht Club Resort
The lobby of Disney’s Yacht
Club Resort becomes home to a delectable scene in motion: A
miniature New England-style train races through a sugary rock
mountain surrounded by a candy-coated model village in this
don’t-miss edible display. For children,daily
demonstrations of decorating gingerbread houses and gingerbread
men are part of the fun.
Disney's BoardWalk
The lobby of Disney’s BoardWalk features a “Holiday
Gazebo” made of gingerbread and chocolate, with “hidden
Mickeys” for guests to find. Offered at BoardWalk Bakery
are miniature gingerbread houses, stollen bread and a
limited-edition pin featuring Stitch and the gingerbread display.
Disney's Grand Floridian
Resort & Spa
In the lobby of Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa is
a gingerbread house large enough that it doubles as a real bake
shop. Featuring gingerbread using a classic Austrian recipe,
the bake shop offers freshly baked items such as cookies and
gingerbread ornaments. Other homemade items for sale include
stollen bread, chocolate-peppermint bark, lollipops and special
Grand Floridian logo boxes filled with truffles. Demonstrations
of how to decorate a gingerbread house take place in front of the
gingerbread house daily except Sundays.
Gingerbread house fun fact: Chefs spend 400 hours baking the
gingerbread and 160 hours decorating the house.
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Structure
Composition:
16 feet high
17 feet wide
1,000 board feet of trim
60 sheets of plywood
40 window panes
80 square feet of retail
space
100 square feet of display
10,000 pieces of
gingerbread used
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Gingerbread
Ingredients:
1,050 lbs. honey
600 lbs. powdered sugar
35 lbs. spices
800 lbs. flour
140 pints egg whites
180 lbs. apricot glaze
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American Adventure
at Epcot
Santa's Bake Shop at Liberty Inn at the American Adventure
pavilion enchants guests of all ages. Guests peer inside a
life-sized gingerbread house at goodies galore. The giant
structure, made entirely of gingerbread, cookies and icing,
features more than 800 pounds of sugar and more than 1,000 eggs.
Inside the bake shop, Christmas cookies and hot and cold
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