Talk about culinary creativity at Moody Gardens Hotel! Pastry Chef Becky Kastelz spent more than 40 hours building Penguin Manor (in honor of our wonderful penguins), a set of three gingerbread houses decorated with the season’s most delicious candies .
Entrance to Penguin Manor
The three houses, made from 28 pounds of gingerbread (including 3 gallons of molasses) and sugar windows, are adorned with M&Ms, licorice, chocolate snowcaps, fondant candy canes, modeling chocolate wreaths, vanilla wafer cookies, and lots and lots of royal icing (over 20 pounds). The fences and balcony are chocolate-covered pretzels with jellybean gardens. An M&M driveway lined with chocolate kisses leads onto the lawn.
Caroling Penguins
Fondant penguins enjoy the holidays with caroling, skating on a sugar pond, making snow angels in coconut snow, snowball fights, and decorating Christmas trees made of ice cream cones covered in royal icing and non-pareils.
Who knew pretzels could also function as a balcony rail!
To protect the display from Galveston’s famous humidity, the entire house and all decorations have been coated with non-edible lacquer.
A roof good enough to eat!
Snow Angels, a holiday must!
Decorating the tree!
One final look!
Come see it for yourself at the Moody Gardens Hotel lobby this holiday season!
Galveston, Texas is one of the top Birding locations in the United States. Even if you aren’t an expert or die hard birding fan you will enjoy the beauty of the area and it’s famous birds. Although the Spring and Fall offer an exceptional opportunity during the migration seasons, anytime of year you can see 1000s of birds all over the Galveston Island area.