Exclusive | NYC mom Julia Kiskie wins Great Borough Bake-Off crown for delectable version of this iconic site
She’s baking New York City into a better place.Julia Kiskie, a 38-year-old Brooklyn mom and hotel pastry chef, has been crowned the winner of the third annual “Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bake-Off” by transforming the iconic Dakota Apartments into a towering, delectable treat, The Post can exclusively reveal.The incredible — and edible — version of the famed Upper West Side building is made from roughly 13 pounds of dense gingerbread cookie, scores of transparent gelatin sheets and countless whipped marshmallow pipings.“It was a lot of long nights,” Kiskie of Midwood told The Post of her monumental feat.The oven-mitted mom took home the competition’s coveted title this week, nearly two months after the Museum of the City of New York opened its exhibition of entered edible works by Kiskie and others to the public and asked visitors to cast their votes for their favorite mouthwatering creation.Kiskie had plenty of competition.
Her Dakota was up against 20 other entries featuring New York City sights, including a bite-sized sanitation truck — which was much too clean to be life-like — and the Empire State Building.Kiskie scored roughly 20% of more than 11,000 votes cast, plenty to win the contest, according to Jerry Gallagher, the museum’s chief operating officer.“The Dakota is one of the special ones in the gallery, and clearly it’s struck a chord with so many of the visitors,” Gallagher told The Post.“It’s just monumental — she used all of the area that we allowed her to use, and it’s tall, just like the Dakota — as well as her detail to all of the windows and the doors and the driveway,” he noted of Kiskie’s creation.“What a lot of people can’t see is that she actually has this Christmas tree in the center of the courtyard apartment building.… If you’ve got little kids, you can lift them up so they can see into it.
She just did such an amazing job.And it’s also so wintery.
Everything is covered in snow an...