Gingerbread House to be Raffled Off for Charity

A local chef’s gingerbread house masterpiece is being raffled off for children’s charity next week. A drawing for the house, designed and created by Chef Kenneth Feathers II, will be held on Tuesday Dec. 21 at Marconi’s Restaurant. Funds raised will go toward the Girls and Boys Club of America.
Chef Kenneth is the pastry chef for Marconi’s as well as Carlo Martellos business partner in Cafe Piccolo.

The licensed chef has been in the restaurant industry for 31 years, previously as the chef at the Wyndham Casa Marina in Key West, Fla. He received his degree in hospitality management from the the University of Akron.
The house took just over 120 hours to build, from plans that Feathers drew up. It includes: 1,124 Necco wafers on the roof; 764 candy "lego" bricks in fencing; 426 chocolate rocks in the chimney; 116 cups powdered sugar in the icing; and 48 cups of brown sugar in the gingerbread. The house comes complete with a wraparound porch, a Jacuzzi on the porch and a pond in the yard. And the hard candy windowpanes glow from lighting inside the house.
The drawing can be entered at Marconi's. The house will be on display at Marconi’s Restaurant, 424 Berlin Road, during regular business hours until the winner picks it up after the drawing.