Event
Group Sizes 5-200
Duration: 1 to 3 hours
Location: Nationwide
Gingerbread Creations
Key Skills
- Energising team activity
- Educational, fun and hands on
- Team work
- Time management
- Structural engineer
- Creativity and innovation
- Baking
Level
Introduction
We originally launched this activity as one of the Christmas challenges on our team bake off event, we noticed how people didn’t limit themselves to gingerbread houses and created all sorts of ambitious ideas, since launching gingerbread creations we have had fork lift trucks and lorries for Volvo, Boeing 747 from Air Bus, handbags from Chanel and so many more! The only limit to this activity seems to be the imagination!
Event Outline
Following a warm welcome and a briefing from the Hartley events team, guests will be ushered to their baking zones and depending on time restraints we will either provide some premade gingerbread dough or give the teams the recipe and resources to make their own. A professional demonstration follows to include rolling, cutting, baking and assembling a gingerbread construction to inspire and equip the teams with the necessary skills they will need for their own team’s designs.
Anything could happen from this moment on, we will provide each team with card, rulers and craft equipment to design templates for cutting the dough, an oven, baking trays and a larder stocked with glitters sweets and treats for decorating, unleash your team’s full potential with this creative, innovative team activity!
all accompanied with hand-outs and recipes for guests to take home!
What’s included?
- Michelin Star Trained chefs and Chocolatiers with professional event managers
- A dedicated project manager who will liaise with you directly and other companies involved on the day.
- Public liability for up to £1,000,000
- Risk Assessments and Haccaps
- All Specialist equipment, ingredients and recipes.
- Medals and Aprons
- All pre-event and onsite event management with a follow up and feedback if required.
- We will do our upmost to give you an outstanding event, and to deliver the desired outcomes and objectives which you have requested and ensure that everyone has a totally enjoyable, unforgettable and rewarding experience.
- Within 2 working days we will be in contact with your feedback and share memorable photos taken by our event managers with you within 5 working days.
Additional Extras to consider
- Photography and filming
- Venue finding services
- Facilitation
- Prizes
Itinerary
12:00 Events crew arrive onsite and set up, this can be at any venue or location nationwide and beyond.
13:50 Room is set and our event host will meet your point of contact.
14:00 We warmly welcome your guests and explain what is to be expected of them, guests are put into teams (unless pre-selected) and go to their colour coded cooking zones. Hats and aprons are put on and a Head Chef (who will be awarded the head chef hat) is appointed by each team
14:15 Some good housekeeping with a health and safety briefing relevant to the tasks and venue is given by our host followed by interviewing the head chefs from each team, the briefing and warm up session is rounded off with a “yes chef!” from each team.
14:20 A demonstration is given by our chef(s) relevant to the menu or challenge, this may be on a big screen for larger groups so all the guests can see and understand the technical skills that are required such as knife skills presentation techniques and good food practices.
14:40 Making and baking gingerbread creations commences
16:30 Baking concludes and judging commences
17:00 The winning team is announced, medals awarded and proud photo moments for the winning team are shared. During the event debrief your host and chef will share the most amusing moments and highlights from the activity and conclude with thank you’s and goodbyes.
17:30 Event crew commence derig (we leave the event space clean and tidy)
``Thank you so much for a wonderful event. The planning was made effortless by your support and the venue and accommodation you recommended were perfect. Our ``Bake Off`` event was so entertaining and a great success. I would thoroughly recommend this to anyone planning a team event and wants to try something a little different to the norm``
