Production

Carter was a true Renaissance man this year as he derived arch building technique straight from source material.

Math? Weren't we going to bake something? What happened to the chocolate? Why are there all of these numbers? And rulers? Betty Crocker never mentioned anything about rulers!

Our biggest challenge this year was to find just the right cylinders on which to bake our arches. It was a grueling audition process, and many a young can was left cursing its circumfrence.

After a few test runs, we settled on fifteen ounce cans for our side arches and a large coffee can for the central arch. We now have enough coffee in the freezer to start our own Starbuck's franchise. Venti anyone?
All of our cans were thoroughly washed and wrapped in foil before we put them in the oven.

How, you may ask, did we keep our cans from rolling around in the oven? We used a handy-dandy new-fangled invention, otherwise known as.... rocks. We spared no expense, really.

Another interesting challenge was baking super-sized pieces of gingerbread. We lengthened our cookie sheets with some spare sheet metal and tin foil.

It was a good thing we got rid of Hansel in 2003, otherwise these guys surely would not have fit. After we got all of our pieces safely in and out of the oven, it was time to put the math to the test and construct our arch.