Baked for Building
Betty Carpenito's homemade gingerbread serves as the foundation for edible houses - and family bonding.
The wreath adorned with gingerbread men in Betty Carpenito’s kitchen says it all: “Baked With Love.” Love is what inspires Carpenito, of Hatboro, to buy and mix – with help from her three Kitchen Aid mixers - 50 pounds of flour, 10 pounds of brown sugar, 20 bottles of molasses, 40 eggs, a half pound of ginger and a half pound of cinnamon every year, beginning the weekend after Thanksgiving. With a batch of gingerbread baking in the oven, another cooling in a container and still others partially assembled on her kitchen countertop and on her dining room table, the smell of gingerbread wafts through her home, but Carpenito’s nose is none the wiser. “The first day I smell it,” Carpenito says. “And then, afterward, I don’t.” Smelling it could …
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Gina Sweeney
9:29 pm on Friday, December 16, 2011
The Sweeney Family received our new gingerbread house tonight. We are always amazed at the design, and this year is no different! We can't wait to spend some quality family time together and work on decorating our gingerbread house. We are so happy to have Betty as our neighbor and friend. Just a small side note to share about what an awesome person Betty is...on the morning of my mother's … more ›