3rd Annual Legendary Gingerbread Festival

The Children’s Museum of Richmond has invited a select group of area chefs to build gingerbread creations that will be on display at the Children's Museum of Richmond December 12th through December 19th.  During the Legendary Gingerbread Festival, chefs from across Richmond unleash their creative culinary talents to design one-of-a-kind gingerbread creations.  The festival is open during Legendary Santa hours, and is free to the public; museum admission is not required.

The exquisite houses are being raffled off to support the museum’s mission and programming.  Raffle tickets are $1.00 and the raffle will run from 9:00am on Saturday, December 12th through 6:00pm on December 19th.  Winners from the raffle will be notified on the evening of December 19th. This is a fabulous way to win a creation to decorate your home for the holidays and to support the Children's Museum of Richmond. 

The 2009 Legendary Gingerbread Chefs:                                   
                                                             
Kara Buntin – A Cake to Remember
Graham Haddock – Cakes by Graham
Erinn LeClair – The Jefferson Hotel
Tracy Stevens – Mixing Bowl Bakery
Jenny Tremblay West – Sweetest Thing Bakery
Teresa Lesley – TLCakes
Jim Goodman – Ukrop’s Bakery
David Napier - White House Catering
Ron&Summer Williams - Williams Bakery Inc.

See the Creations

Meet our 3rd Annual Legendary Gingerbread Festival Judges:

The Gingerbread Creations will be judged on overall aesthetics, creative design, materials used, style and execution.

Zach Daniel
WTVR CBS6

Zach Daniel is the Emmy Award winning Chief Meteorologist for WTVR. His weathercasts can be seen weeknights on CBS 6 at 5, 5:30, 6, and 11. Zach grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and has had a keen interest in weather since his early childhood. He's no stranger to severe and unusual weather, having spent six years working in Oklahoma City, widely regarded as the most intense weather market in the nation.

Zach graduated from The University of Georgia with a B.S. degree in Geography, and earned his B.S. degree in Meteorology from The University of Oklahoma. He is a member of the National Weather Association and the American Meteorology Society, and has been awarded the AMS Seal of Approval.

Zach was given the 2007 Meritorious AP Award for Best Weathercast in the State of Virginia, and took home the 2008 Emmy Award for Best Weathercast.

Zach and his wife, daughter, son, and two yellow labs live in Richmond's West End. When he's not working, he loves playing golf, skiing, traveling and spending time with his family.

John A. Hugo, AIA ASLA 3north, PLLC Noted designer, and Principal of 3north, PLLC, Jay Hugo oversees important master planning and design assignments for the firm supported by his professional training as an architect, landscape architect, and interior designer. His buildings and landscapes have been featured in the regional and national press and have been recognized by numerous award programs. Often drawing on concepts from nature, his work focuses on signature place-making, and in particular, what he calls “Threshold Spaces” – those dynamic places between structure and the greater world, man and the surrounding environment. Debi Shawcross Chef and Cookbook Author Debi received her BS degree from Arizona State University and began working in the corporate world. Realizing that her passion was in the food industry, she attended the California Culinary Academy, completing a series of classes on wedding cakes. This led to the opening of her wedding cake business, Silver Spoon Desserts, which was very successful in the San Francisco Bay area.

Upon entering motherhood Debi took time off to be at home with her daughters, during which time her family moved to Richmond, Virginia. In 2003 with Debi’s desire to keep a creative hand in the business world, while still being able to be at home with her daughters, led her to the creation of Signature Menus, a cooking class business.

In addition to teaching cooking classes at home, Debi has also taught classes in several local community settings, such as the Richmond Symphony Designer House, where she taught students how to throw a Tapas party.

Debi’s self-published cookbook Signature Salads, released in December 2005. The first two printings sold out within a year and a half. Sales of the third printing are well under way. The success and fun Debi had with Signature Salads inspired her to write a second book, a supper club cookbook titled Friends at the Table.