CNC student Lucas Luo  pipes chocolate  icing on to his gingerbread pagoda – photos 250News

Prince George, B.C.-   The Holiday season  just  isn’t complete without gingerbread, and at the College of New Caledonia,  Culinary Arts students are baking up  a storm.“We provide the gingerbread and the icing” says  program head Chef Ron Christian “The students provide the design, the  decoration and  the hard work to build their creation.”

The completed gingerbread creations  are on display in the CNC library, and many will be  auctioned off. “The money will be used to make a donation to charity and maybe buy one or two  items for our kitchen here” says Chef Christian.

Not all of the creations will be on the auction block.

(At right,  Bella Stokes adds more icing to hold  the ‘roof’ on her  creation)

17 year old Bella Stokes  creation, which comes complete with   interior lighting and stained glass windows made of melted lifesavers, will be going directly to charity. “My parents and I will be donating  this gingerbread creation to the Salvation Army  so they can  make it part of a Christmas Hamper  for  a   less fortunate family.”   Bella is a Duchess Park student, and is taking the Culinary Arts class  through the  program offered  through School District 57 and CNC.

Program head,  Chef Ron Christian , says the gingerbread creations have been  an annual  event  in the 12 years he has been at the College.  Students are graded not so much on how the final  project  turned out, but in  their dedication and  time spent to  make the creation.

This year, the creations do  stray from the traditional gingerbread house.  There is a scene from the Trailer Park Boys,  a   Venice  street (canal) scene, a  castle , a pagoda,  even an arcade game.

Below, Rosemarie Skin  adds some more ‘snow’ to her gingerbread  building.