Hilton chefs create gingerbread nativity

The Cardiff Hilton has come over all festive and created a gingerbread nativity scene for its reception area.

In a move that would please Hansel and Gretel, if not Christian purists, the chefs at the Cardiff hotel have used gingerbread "bricks" with chocolate icing "cement" and roofs made out of rolls of chocolate and icing icicles (of course), to create their edible homage to the baby Jesus.

All rather wonderful, but although Kitchen Rat will not claim to be an authority on the good book, we can't quite recall a "dark chocolate Ferris wheel" or an "iced ice rink" featuring alongside the three wize men as in this interpretation. A new take on the three kings guided by a star, perhaps?

Still, it's for a good cause, namely Pocketful of Presents, which provides Christmas presents for under privileged children in the local community, so we'll overlook the chefs' unbridled creativity and say well done and Merry Christmas! 

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